Learning Control Systems with Arduino and YouTube

I do not know if you are familiar with videos by Brian Douglas . If not, and if you are into control systems, you should definitely check them out!

Brian has become a YouTube celebrity for those of us who are into understanding control systems and applications. Even though since 2012 he is teaching us about control systems, his videos have aggregated more than 10 million views and have likely helped thousands of students! He uses hand drawings to illustrate and explain some of the most abstract concepts in control theory in a way that help viewers (us!) connect those concepts with more intuitive and everyday references and applications.

Talking maker stuff, one of his most recent videos makes use of Simulink and a Temperature Control Lab , based on Arduino, to explain thermal conductivity phenomena and the time-response of thermal systems. I invite you to take a look at this video, to stay tuned to his channel, and to support his work through Patreon.

Finally, here is the link to the video A real control system - how to start designing:

And if you don't have the Temperature Control Lab, but would like to make and implement your own thermal system, you can always use the Simulink Support Package for Arduino Hardware and find some inspiration in this documentation example on how to read temperature from an I2C based sensor.

How would you implement a similar thermal system using the documentation example above? Please share with our community and feel free to ask questions or suggest topics. Maybe Brian himself can offer some tips to us here as well.