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Mobile multimeter
...and possibly oscilloscope
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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.

coprocephalous, May 06 2008

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]

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       Damn. Thought this would be an artistic hodgepodge arrangement of dangling electrodes and readout displays :(

daseva, May 06 2008
  

       //Thought this would be an artistic hodgepodge arrangement of dangling //
No, that would be a "Multimeter mobile".

coprocephalous, May 06 2008
  

       Yes, indeed. By the lack of power invested in me, I give you the rights to both. +

daseva, May 06 2008
  

       Oooh, there is a big reading from the flux capacitor in your De Lorean.

4whom, May 06 2008
  

       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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csea, May 06 2008
  

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       Monkey see, monkey want ....

8th of 7, May 07 2008
  
      
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