From Meh to WOW - With 1 "Tiny" Hack!

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Sensor used in this video: https://www.we-online.com/wsen-tids-temperature-sensor Other sensors from Würth Elektronik: https://www.we-online.com/more-sensors-by-we Services for Components: https://www.we-online.com/en/products/components/service Sign up for Altium Develop and see the difference: http://altium.com/yt/greatscott! (AD, Paid Promotion) TIDS Sensor Drivers as C Sourcecode: For STM32: https://github.com/WurthElektronik/Sensors-SDK_STM32/tree/main/SensorsSDK/WSEN_TIDS_2521020222501 For Zephyr OS: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/tree/main/drivers/sensor/wsen/wsen_tids_2521020222501 For Plattfom.IO (using arduino API “wire” for i2c): https://github.com/WurthElektronik/FeatherWings/tree/main/Common/WE_SENSORS_SDK/SensorsSDK/WSEN_TIDS_2521020222501 Previous video: https://youtu.be/VyqljSodp6k Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greatscottlab Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreatScottLab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/great.scott.lab/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@greatscottlab Discord: https://discord.gg/zuAvkAuhsY Support me for more videos: https://www.patreon.com/GreatScott?ty=h In this episode of HACKED, we will be having a closer look at pretty unreliable thermostats. Those are normally used to measure the temperature in a room. But all of mine come with a deviation of around 1C to 2C which annoyes me quite a bit. So let's find out what is wrong with them and how we can "Hack" them to make them more precise and reliable. Let's get started! Thanks to the Würth Elektronik for supporting this video. 0:00 Thermostat Problem! 1:17 Intro 1:38 Teardown! 2:26 How it Measures Temp? 4:00 Possible Problems 4:27 My Solution! 7:04 Creating a "Hack" PCB 8:00 Testing my PCB 9:19 Final Test & Verdict