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My phone has Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, MP3, USB, camera, composite video output...but it doesn't have a multimeter.
The damn thing is chock full of DSP, A-to-D and D-to-A converters, shirley it could have a simple multimeter, for those times when, you know, you just have to measure a voltage.
Turn your PDA into a multimeter
http://www.engadget...s-into-multimeters/
...and if your cell phone has a CF or PCMCIA slot, then I imagine it will work on that. [DrCurry, May 06 2008]
GameBoy oscilloscope
http://www.elektor....082-91).91407.lynkx
[AbsintheWithoutLeave, May 06 2008]
Getting closer.
http://www.electron...00512attr=editorial
[coprocephalous, May 12 2010]
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Damn. Thought this would be an artistic hodgepodge arrangement of dangling electrodes and readout displays :( |
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//Thought this would be an artistic hodgepodge arrangement of dangling //
No, that would be a "Multimeter mobile". |
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Yes, indeed. By the lack of power invested in me, I give you the rights to both. + |
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Oooh, there is a big reading from the flux capacitor in your De Lorean. |
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Most phones have a battery charge indicator, albeit with fairly low resolution. Should be a simple matter of finding the right connections and bringing them external, adding a switch to go between functions. |
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Monkey see, monkey want .... |
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dang, I already [+]'d it. This would be a hefty yes-weight on the scale that determines if I ever get a cell. |
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[+] But I don't think it'd be a minor modification. A normal
multimeter handles voltages over at least 4 orders of
magnitude, and also measures current and resistance.
"Multi" right?. |
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I'd pay extra for such a souped up 'phone, though. They'd
probably be visibly different from cellphones (bulkier, at
least), so they'd be geek fashion accessories: anyone who
carried one would be declaring him/herself the sort of
person who feels the need to whip out a multimeter at a
moment's notice and start debugging the toaster. |
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A subset of "multimeter" that probably *would* only
require a little rejigging, and would be really handy is a
continuity tester. |
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//would be really handy is a continuity tester.//
You've almost certainly already got one of these - all you have to do is make a cut in the headphone cable. |
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Seeing that most phones have bluetooth built in, a really handy accessory would be a bluetooth multimeter adapter. |
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I'm *really* sick of losing and breaking multimeters and buying cheap crap ones from Maplin. |
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