Arduino Controlled PC Water Cooling Info Display

An ongoing project to add temperature monitoring to my PC water cooling loop.

Arduino Controlled PC Water Cooling Info Display

This is an ongoing project in which I am attempting to create a custom water pump cover for my PCs water cooling system. The pump cover will have a LCD that will display several parameters of the water cooling loop such as: 2 temperature points, Water pump RPM, Liquid flow rate and system up-time.

As of right now I have only completed the temperature sensor circuit and the LCD display circuit.

I have the following items left to implement: - Water Pump RPM (PPM sensing?) - Liquid Flow Metering (Flow meter from Practical Arduino)

I am still working on the code and hope to have it up in the next week or so.

This project is part of my Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 PC Mod that can be followed at TheBestCaseScenario.com or my personal site TheMakersWorkbench.com

If anyone has any suggestions or comments I would be pleases to hear them.

Update 1 June 2010

I have uploaded the first bits of code that will run this project. I am still learning things as I go so please bear with me. A big thanks to crenn over at thebestcasescenario.com for helping me figure out why my code was wrong and not compiling.

By TheMakersWorkBench
Created on June 1, 2010, 13:45

Category: Analog / Digital

Difficulty: amateurs

License:

Tags: arduino, temperature sensor, liquid flow meter

Files

Fritzing Files

Arduino_controlled_2_sensor_temp_display.fz

Code Files

WC_info_code.txt

WC_info_code.pde

Links

TheMakersWorkbench.com

Call of Duty Modern Warefare 2 PC

Comments

SXRguyinMA # May 28, 2010, 4:16 p.m.
nice work! :)
Charles Gantt # June 1, 2010, 12:48 p.m.
Thanks Will!
nexxo # July 30, 2011, 4:06 p.m.
Great minds think alike. :) I am currently designing a Steampunk watercooled PC which will have a nixie tube readout (probably something by Ogi Lumen) displaying l/min. flow and coolant temperature (with a switch to toggle between the two). I also want it to monitor the HDD light and steer a Dekatron counter (so that it "swings" --i.e. the pins go back and forth in a half-circle) when the HDD is at rest and it spins rapidly (full circle) when the HDD is active. Of course, this means I have to learn to program the darn thing... Your project is of great help with this. I'll post my rambling ideas here when I've written some code. Perhaps we can compare notes?

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