Whether you only dabble in electronics as a hobby or it’s your full-time job, there are few tools as indispensable as the multimeter. In fact, we’d be willing to bet nearly everyone rea…
You can get one for that much, sure. But there’s a lot of variance in terms of features and build quality. You can easily spend $100 or more for a nice professional grade one.
I suspect that, as with most open source projects, the goal here isn’t to make a competitive commercial product, but rather to do something cool and infinitely customizable.
Upfront, I don’t even know how to use a multimeter… But aren’t they like less than $20?
Please don’t use a $20 multimeter for anything important.
You can get one for that much, sure. But there’s a lot of variance in terms of features and build quality. You can easily spend $100 or more for a nice professional grade one.
I suspect that, as with most open source projects, the goal here isn’t to make a competitive commercial product, but rather to do something cool and infinitely customizable.