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| Android Tricorder App |
Last year I compiled a list of tools all test engineers should have. That list came to mind a couple of months ago when I got my spiffy Droid Incredible phone and downloaded the Tricorder app. It's a VERY cool tool/toy, especially for a test engineer.
I was reminded of that list again when I read the "New Age of DMMs" article in Evaluation Engineering. The title implied to me that there was a new line of DMMs I didn't know about. Sadly, it didn't deliver on that promise - I already knew about PXI DMM cards and the new capabilities they had.
But what about new handheld DMMs? So I checked out Fluke (of course), and they have a couple of neat multimeters I hadn't seen before. The Fluke 289 is a good DMM that has logging capability with a TI-calculator-type graphing option (it got a Best In Test award in 2009). Even better, the Fluke 233 has a slick wireless option - you can hook it up, put the display in your pocket, walk up to 30 feet away and still read what it's measuring.
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| Fluke 289 |
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| Fluke 233 |
Both of those would be nice to have. But I still want a tricorder.
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