Although it's commonly called a thermometer, dashboard temperature readings in vehicles are calculated by a thermistor, which measures the change in electrical current because of heat added or ...

Your car is equipped not with a thermometer but with a thermistor.Thermistors work in a similar manner to thermometers, but rather than using a liquid like mercury, thermistors measure the change ...

But after you paste the code into the Arduino IDE, remember to replace the existing A, B, C coefficients with the right values based on the calculations done for your chosen NTC thermistor. Also, the ...

Initial tests are very promising. I put the thermometer in my freezer with the stock thermistor, measured the temperature, switched to a shack 10k ohm thermistor, and put it back in. Same reading ...

Thermometers and thermistors do really similar things, so this isn’t why your car is so bad at measuring outside temperatures (but we’re still appalled and kind of upset that it’s not a ...

Now, researchers from the University of Washington have developed an app that turns a regular smartphone into an accurate, easy-to-use thermometer. Since the advent of COVID-19, people have been ...

No matter where you are in the country right now, it’s hot. (Wrong. —Ed.) From New York City to San Diego, it’s like God has set up a massive hair dryer over the continent. If you happen to ...

If you happen to be in your car though and you want to know just how hot it is, don’t count on your car’s thermometer being accurate, ... Instead, they’re equipped with thermistors.