Brain Cortex Control Panel Part 18

Cortex DVM

BRAIN CORTEX CONTROL PANEL
The cortex is neither animal nor human, but a living machine. It lives within the fine line of a new emerging life form, albeit with a simplified intellect and life.

It can function autonomously and yet have a cortex control panel for human interaction and monitoring. This blog is all about the design of the

Temperature humidity monitor

cortex control panel and some of the features it might include.

First let's establish the duties and functions of a control panel. Here is the current design of useful functions (below).

Photoresistor circuit

It's not out of the question to have a second propeller chip with an additional eight micro processors to do monitoring and tune the control of the energy supply. For example, it could sense battery voltage and initiate recharging. It could sense battery temperature and stop recharging, or detect worn out batteries and ask for replacements. A chronometer could keep track of the machine's age and life intervals.

A night time photo-resistor sensor could induce the machine's sleep cycle and wake it up in the morning or it could determine when to use power from the solar panel or use the solar panel for charging or shut it off in dark conditions.

CONTROLS
BATTERY ON/OFF
SOLAR PANEL ON/OFF
SOLAR CHARGE: ON/OFF
DVM ON/OFF (DIGITAL VOLTAGE METER)
RESET (DUAL SAFETY PUSHBUTTONS)

MONITORED DISPLAY INSTRUMENTS
ELECTRONIC THERMOMETER (AUTOMATIC)
MECHANICAL THERMOMETER (AUTOMATIC)
HYGROMETER (AUTOMATIC)
VOLTAGE METER
 
ADD ON
CAS LIGHT DETECTOR (AUTONOMIC)

WITH 2ND PROPELLER CHIP
LCD 2X16
LIGHT LEVEL (DAY/NIGHT/DARK/BRIGHT)
CHRONOMETER (AGE)
MESSAGE 1 (REPLACE BATTERY)
MESSAGE 2 (TOO HOT)
MESSAGE 3 (TOO COLD)

Index to the Brain Cortex
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/11/brain-cortex-index-part-16.html