Rick Hoadley (the Magnet Man) has put together a simple gaussmeter project that uses a hall effect sensor to measure magnetic fields. The video shows two meters, one that uses a PIC microcontroller to measure and show the values and the simple version. There is no plans for the PIC version that I could see. Perhaps if there is enough demand Rick will make some plans and code available. I will first describe a very simple, inexpensive Hall effect device Gaussmeter you can build for as little as $6. Then I will describe a Gaussmeter with a few more bells and whistles.”
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April 11th, 2007
I have an SWR meter for my radio stuff, and it has a built in field strength meter. I am not sure if it is measuring some form of gauss, but it might be worth investigating to see if it is the same. I would hate to lug that big box around for the simple purpose of measuring field strength. Does any one else know if they are the same?
April 11th, 2007
I dont think they’re the same.. seems like it would be a hastle :/
April 11th, 2007
Where’s your hacker spirit! The word “hassle” shouldn’t be in your vocabulary
Looking into it a little more, it appears that they are (somewhat) of the same school of thought. Field Strength meters measure electromagnetic waves, so why couldn’t you use Hall’s Effect as a solution for this?
April 11th, 2007
nice and cheap!
April 11th, 2007
Haha, yeah yeah, you’ve got me on that one bro
April 11th, 2007
The hacking sprit is what makes life worth living. Kinda like getting a Fon router and installing dd-wrt on it. Its just pure happiness.
April 11th, 2007
Hexypoo, I think thats the tightwad’s spirit
The hacker spirit is upgrading its ram
April 11th, 2007
Cool beans. Maybe that will have to go on my list of things to whip up
April 11th, 2007
Hexypoo: I had the warranty voided on mine 5 minutes after I walked through the front door at home
You cannot even tell it’s a linksys router anymore. I have it in a different enclosure with a 12 DBi patch antenna attached 
April 11th, 2007
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April 11th, 2007
DIY Circuit HACK - How to build An inexpensive Hall effect Gaussmeter!
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Oh, check out this cool DIY on how to build an inexpensive Hall Effect Gaussmeter! If you don’t want to build one, you can always buy a gaussmeter here.
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May 5th, 2007
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May 5th, 2007
My free gaussmeter:
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December 27th, 2007
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