Arduino esp32 thermistor project

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 My first actual arduino project.

Based on:

https://www.electronicwings.com/arduino/thermistor-interfacing-with-arduino-uno

the code is here:

https://github.com/marsjupiter1/arduino_esp32

My little extra is to realise that thermistors are quite prone to interference and whilst a capacitor might help, so would taking an average of samples.

I plan to add an LED readout as well as the simple REST api.




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