The mini-bioreactor (image) had three pumps controlled by a programmable plug-in digital timer. The pupropse was to eliminate the plug and to develop a standalone application which would controll the pumps at different hours chosen by the user, to read the temperature and pressure of the room and to read the level of liquid in the bioreactor chamber in order to determine the gas production. The system had two units: the PC and a microcontroller. The application on PC was developed in LabWindows CVI (ANSI C language) with the intend of sending the messages to the microcontroller at different hours and also to store the sensors data from microcontroller. The microcontroller was an ATmega328P programmed in Atmel Studio 7. The purpose was to write C code for serial communication with the PC, reading sensors and storing the data back to PC at different moments in time.
In order to transimit data from application to Proteus I used a Virtual Serial Port Emulator.
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