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Awesome Android App

NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
edited 2014-08-27 04:18 in General Discussion
While browsing various Electronics Apps for my Phone/Tablet I came across quite possibly the absolute most useful App of all. "Electrodroid". This App does it all and then some. There are so many things it can help a hobbyist and pro with that I can not begin to list them. Take a gander and I am sure you will love it too. I will be upgrading to the pay version both on my phone and my tablet just to pay whomever created the App more money because even the free version is worth the price for the paid version!!!!

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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-13 13:14
    Err...so what does it do?
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-08-13 13:16
    That was my question too ....

    http://electrodroid.it/electrodroid/
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-13 13:22
    Thanks.

    Sometimes one can just be too tired and lazy to google even one more thing.

    Anyway, sounds cool.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-08-13 13:28
    Worth a look, but C'mon, I learned my resistor color code mnemonic way back in Boy Sprouts:

    Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Venture Goes West= black brown red orange yellow green blue violet gray white

    From elsewhere, this more prurient and less PC version:

    Bad Boys R--- Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly

    I'm sure there are others. How did YOU learn it?
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2014-08-13 13:39
    This app goes WAY beyond resistor color codes.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-08-13 13:40
    Indeed it does. Looks very useful.

    Here's the way I was taught the code.

    Bad Boys Race Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls (value). Get Started Now (precision).
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-13 13:40
    Never did. Practised since 1968 or so. I always got lost after yellow...

    No good to me now, none of my resistors have colour codes on them. They have their values printed on them but they are too small to read.
  • SapphireSapphire Posts: 496
    edited 2014-08-13 13:49
    I just memorized the color to value, never used any of the jingles. When I see violet, I think 7.


    Did you ever learn the Telco color code?

    Bl-O-G-Br-S, W-R-Bk-Y-V
  • ValeTValeT Posts: 308
    edited 2014-08-13 15:01
    For beginners like me, this app will be a life saver! I haven't memorized anything yet :), and currently am too busy to worry about those kinds of things.

    What do you guys think of the other apps?
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2014-08-13 16:16
    I never learnt the bad boy way "Bad Boys Race Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls", just never had trouble with the boring Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White.

    So 4K7 can be read out Young Victory Race or Young Victory Bad Boys
    10K - Boys Bad Bad Race
    5K6 - Girls Behind Race or Girls Behind Bad Boys

    Ok, I see where this going...

    I remember ElectroDroid but it really is only a reference guide and hopefully you only need to use it long enough to learn it. Don't be one of these people that pull out a calculator just to do quick four function maths, that's real easy to do mentally especially when you develop your own "ready reckoning". Learning times tables when I was at school was really useful and forms the basis for more complex mental calculations.

    As for apps I would like to develop the other end of the Agilent scope app, that is really nice. But I think even a Bluetooth "multimeter" app could be very useful too so now that I mention it then that might be a good start to develop things further later on, I'll look into it, maybe there is something out there already.

    Another app I use is Juice SSH which is a really good Telnet client that works really well even on a phone. It supports VT100 and xterm etc and you can zoom the screen font up and down with the volume keys, but this is a pro app but free. I would like to be able to use the VT100 part for Bluetooth and serial too so I might request the author in that respect.
    Also DroidEdit for a great text editor and BlueTerm works well too. As for actual calculators I use RealCalc Plus.
  • ValeTValeT Posts: 308
    edited 2014-08-13 17:08
    I agree with you, and I just need it for a little while, while I get used to the codes, etc.

    Let me know if you want any help. I am pretty fluent in Java, and have done a little in android programming.
  • TCTC Posts: 1,019
    edited 2014-08-13 17:10
    erco wrote: »
    Worth a look, but C'mon, I learned my resistor color code mnemonic way back in Boy Sprouts:

    Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Venture Goes West= black brown red orange yellow green blue violet gray white

    From elsewhere, this more prurient and less PC version:

    Bad Boys R--- Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly

    I'm sure there are others. How did YOU learn it?


    Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well
  • MicksterMickster Posts: 2,693
    edited 2014-08-14 00:33
    erco wrote:

    I'm sure there are others. How did YOU learn it?

    I did a lot of panel building as an apprentice and we used wire idents that were colored as well as numbered and the coloring was that of the resistor color code. Didn`t take long to memorize and from there on it became easier to ID a particular wire because even if the ident number wasn`t visible, you could easily identify it by color.

    Been using the PRO version of Electrodroid for a good while now but not for color codes....very useful app.
  • RS_JimRS_Jim Posts: 1,766
    edited 2014-08-14 06:01
    I have been using electrodroid for a number of years. I like the linear voltage regulator and led resister calculators. Saves me a lot of time when a customer asks which resister should I use?
    Jim
  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    edited 2014-08-14 06:16
    Originally i learnt the ditty too. But soon I could pick up any resistor and instantly recognise its value as if it were written on it.
    But now I need glasses to just read what is written on them.
    Shortly they wont have anything written on them. Indeed some I now need a magnifying glass just to see the resistor (smts smaller than 0402).
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2014-08-14 06:37
    Re: Resistors - Besides just my generally old eyes and the need for a magnifier, ditty or no ditty, the problem I have noticed more and more on "modern day" color coded resistors is the poor quality of the colors. I've seen several where brown/red/orange and nearly the same except in the very best and brightest light. White and gray on the blue bodied resistors can also be a challenge. It's time to take one of my EMIC boards and build one of OBC's talking resisitor testers.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-14 06:49
    Cluso,
    ...smts smaller than 0402...
    That would be <= 0803 here :(

    Still with a jewellers loupe they are easy enough to read. Surprisingly easy to work with as well.
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2014-08-14 07:26
    I too was taught (by an old dude) "Bad Boys R--- yada, yada", but when I was 14ish, my mom asked me how I could remember the Code so well. So I told her straight out. <was not good>

    So because I routinely teach classes of jr high and high schoolers , many years ago (right after the Zest incident) I came up with: "Bowling Balls Roll On Yellow Grass Beside Very Grey Walls".
    -Matt-still-can-taste-Zest-G
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-08-14 07:56
    ZEST? You cityboys got off easy.

    My Dad was a LAVA man.
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2014-08-14 14:45
    What is all this jibberish you guys are referring to? Keep in mind I never took an electronics course, although I just might be very soon here.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-14 14:52
    NWCCTV,

    Which jibberish exactly can we help you with?

    For sure I don't know what the ZEST amd LAVA thing is about anyway.
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2014-08-14 15:07
    Bad Boys R--- Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly
    etc. etc.......
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2014-08-14 15:07
    erco wrote: »
    ZEST? You cityboys got off easy.

    My Dad was a LAVA man.

    You can really sink your teeth into Ivory.
  • JLockeJLocke Posts: 354
    edited 2014-08-14 20:16
    Heater. wrote: »
    NWCCTV,

    Which jibberish exactly can we help you with?

    For sure I don't know what the ZEST amd LAVA thing is about anyway.

    They (and Ivory, later post) are brands of soap in the US.
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2014-08-15 15:30
    NWCCTV wrote: »
    What is all this jibberish you guys are referring to? Keep in mind I never took an electronics course, although I just might be very soon here.

    It's the resistor color codes, which are really useful to learn even if you don't do much with analog circuits. I'd never heard these jingles or acronyms for them either, I've always just thought of it as Black Brown -rainbow colors- Grey White
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-27 02:22
    Great, a spammer that can do my law home work for me.
  • JordanCClarkJordanCClark Posts: 198
    edited 2014-08-27 04:18
    Huh. Just noticed this thread. I learned it as: Bad Booze Rots Our Young Gut, But Vodka Goes Well. Get Some Now

    Other apps I have used, are from TI, On Semi, NXP, etc for their datasheets. Alldatasheet.com has one as well. Not the easiest to read on my phone, but not too bad on my Kindle.
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