Charlieplexing LEDs
The Sparkfun library was taken as a start. The memory footprint has been reduced. Functionality has been added to operate the LED array in single LED mode.
Temperature/humidity sensor
The sensor powerline has been connected to a GPIO. Experience with the Aiakos project learned me that it's the easiest way to save power when the sensor is not in use.
The 100ohm series resistors in the SCL & SDA lines are needed to make in-circuit-programming possible.
R7 together with C2 forms an RC-filter to stabilize the supply voltage for the temperature sensor.
Supply voltage sensor
The internal bandgap reference of the ATTINY is used here to measure the supply voltage. If it's lower than 2.5V, the temperature & humidity LEDs will be on for a short time.
Sleep mode
As it's a battery powered device that should have a long lifetime, most of the time is spent in sleep mode. The deepest sleep mode is used, which results in a sleep current of close to 100nA for this device.
Operating mode
Showing temperature & humidity isn't very complicated. A simple state machine takes care of the program flow.
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