Category: Electronics Projects

Here are a trio of product reviews. The first is the Mooshimeter: Mooshimeter is a DMM accessory for use with your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. It communicates over bluetooth to the device. It supports multiple channels so you can measure both current and voltage simultaneously (very handy!). I needed a secondary DMM for the …

I thought it would be cool to use magic eye tubes to visualize the activity on my PC, so I threw together a two-tube project that shows CPU utilization and network utilization.

I’ve always wanted a Nixie Tube Frequency Counter, but one has never come up on eBay for a price that I was willing to pay. So I just made my own using the same Nixie Tube boards as the calculator project. I learned a bit about frequency counter front-ends in the process.

I bought an Eico 430 Oscilloscope, an old analog scope from the late 50s / early 60s. It’s a cathode ray tube scope, with vacuum tubes used throughout. It works amazingly well given its age, and will actually be a useful addition to the bench.