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!
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Hi there! It would be fanstastic to get a link to the schematics!
Thanks for posting this, John!
I’ll post more info about this in the forums when I get a chance.
More info posted here:
http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=17319