[sdiy] Extrodinary LRC

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Eric 'n' all.

At 08:13 PM 7/20/02 -0700, metasonix at earthlink.net wrote:
> >http://www.publi.ro/ady/
> >Click on multimeter.
> >Basically it's an LRC meter using a PC sound card.
>
>Hm, actually not a bad idea. Not instrument grade i suppose
>but good enough for 99% of the world.

Yeah. He actually says that. His other projects look kinda interesting too. 
A real time guitar effects processor being one. But he says he's always 
looking for ways to improve things. I was thinking that I could hardly wait 
for these palmtops to be going out cheap. A few years yet I suspect but 
it'd make a nice little hand held LRC meter.

>Now now, be nice, give him points for not writing the whole
>thing in Romanian.
>(besides, how many slavic languages do *you* speak?........)

Don't get me wrong. I thought it was cute. And he certainly gets my vote. 
Certainly deserves a chocolate frog or two. I would never have thought of 
doing this in any language. Even if he didn't attempt speaking like yoda, 
he's a jedi in my book. I would have happily spent days trying to decipher 
it. This is exactly the kind of thing that is possible these days using 
junk computer bits for nix. And basically it only requires the addition of 
a resistor and some probes. Sure it's not instrument grade but for the cost 
of an old computer and sound card it's 99% of the way there. And I don't 
know of any instrument that tells you all this on one go. Certainly not on 
this side of wealthy.

This is almost literally something for nothing. And nothing beats that. 
There should be a Nobel prize for stuff like this.

OK. I'm all out of superlatives now. I'll go away.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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