Arduino Capmeter

LenP17 built a capacitor meter using the new Adafruit Arduino enclosure and LCD. The cap in question is placed in the sweet spot of a 555 circuit, and the resulting frequency is measured, correlated to a particular capacitance, and then displayed by the Arduino.

More info in the forums.

Nice work, Len!

Filed under: arduino,projects,protoshield — Tags: — by johngineer, posted September 15, 2010 at 12:01 pm

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3 Comments

  1. Hi there! It would be fanstastic to get a link to the schematics!

    Comment by Off Topic — September 15, 2010 @ 1:09 pm

  2. Thanks for posting this, John!

    I’ll post more info about this in the forums when I get a chance.

    Comment by Len17 — September 15, 2010 @ 1:34 pm

  3. More info posted here:
    http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=17319

    Comment by Len17 — September 18, 2010 @ 8:53 pm

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