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Temperature Sensor 18B20 with Arduino

DS18B20 temperature sensor and Arduino project overview, DS18B20 temperature sensor, Arduino Uno, LCD thermometer

Hello friends! Today we will connect a DS18B20 temperature sensor to an Arduino Uno and display its reading in the Serial Monitor and on a 20 x 4 LCD. This is a useful first project when you want a digital temperature measurement without building an analog amplifier or calculating an ADC reference voltage. The original project used the Dallas 18B20 name and demonstrated the result on real hardware. We will retain those photographs and the demonstration video while making the wiring, library installation and measurement handling clearer. In particular, we need to distinguish a sensor's resolution from its accuracy and explain why its power connection matters. We will begin with one externally powered sensor on Arduino pin D2. Once that works reliably, the same data line can support several ...