amorphous blob with bluetooth to your PDA?
lots more possibilites then, with a decent enough ADC you could even do
audio (or low speed digital) osciliscope functions
cool factor 9.27 Mr Sulu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Mike Hord
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 00:07
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [EE] Tiny multimeter
>
>
> > I like the bargraph idea.
> >
> > Even simpler would be a voltage to period converter (charge a cap)
> > that pulsed an LED. Rough accuracy by eye. better accuracy by counting
> > mentally. Extremely good accuracy possible with stopwatch (all
> > engineers have a stopwatch with them at all times, don't they).
>
> This engineer doesn't even wear a wristwatch... ;-)  Not a bad
> idea, though.
> Once I have a feel for the frequency generated by a "good"
> voltage, I should
> be able to identify that again later.
>
> > BUT you can already get more conventional pen shaped/sized meters
> > which would arguably be as convenient.
> >
> > I'd thought a keyring torch/pen combo would be useful. That could be a
> > torch/pen/meter/... ?
>
> I already have a pen/light/laser/PDA stylus combo.
>
> Mike H.
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