Cat counter
This counts and displays on an LCD the number of times someone/something (of course it can be used to count anything, not only cats 🙂 ) approaches within 12 cm from the sensor. Also the back light is turned on for 5 seconds after the initial approach.
After the event all approaches are ignored for the next 2 minutes.
If the button is pressed, the LCD backlight is turned on for 5 seconds.
BTW, my cat eats between 10 and 22 times per day and drinks water between 8 and 15 times per day 🙂
The code:
/* Copyright © 2018 Razvan Murariu <razwww@gmail.com> This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See the COPYING file for more details. The circuit: Arduino Nano trigPin: A1 echoPin: A0 display SCL: A4 display SDA: A5 button (NC): between 5V and D2 D2 pulled-down to ground with a 10 KΩ resistor */ #include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h> LiquidCrystal_I2C lcd(0x27, 2, 1, 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3, POSITIVE); const long intervalEat = 120000; const long intervalLight = 5000; int distance = 12; long duration; int distanceCm; int counter = 0; int buttonState = 0; unsigned long previousMillisEat = 0; unsigned long previousMillisButton = 0; const int trigPin = A1; const int echoPin = A0; void setup() { lcd.begin(16,2); Serial.begin(9600); pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT); pinMode(echoPin, INPUT); pinMode(13, OUTPUT); pinMode(2, INPUT); // button for backlight lcd.setCursor(0,0); lcd.print("0 pisici"); lcd.backlight(); delay(intervalLight); lcd.noBacklight(); } void loop() { unsigned long currentMillis = millis(); delay(10); digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW); delayMicroseconds(2); digitalWrite(trigPin, HIGH); delayMicroseconds(10); digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW); duration = pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH); distanceCm= duration*0.034/2; // distance smaller than 12 cm && (just powered on || intervalEat passed) if (distanceCm < distance && ((currentMillis < intervalEat && counter == 0) || (currentMillis - previousMillisEat >= intervalEat))) { previousMillisEat = currentMillis; counter++; Serial.print(distanceCm); Serial.println(" cm"); Serial.print(counter); Serial.println(" pisici"); Serial.println(currentMillis); lcd.backlight(); lcd.setCursor(0,0); lcd.print(counter); delay(intervalLight); lcd.noBacklight(); } buttonState = digitalRead(2); if (buttonState == LOW) { Serial.println("Buton"); lcd.backlight(); previousMillisButton = currentMillis; } if ( currentMillis - previousMillisButton >= intervalLight ) { lcd.noBacklight(); } }The most recent version of the code is found on GitHub