cheap and simple way to measure temperature

[fixitjs]

Be careful not to confuse ambient temperature with wind chill. objects will not cool to a lower temperature then the ambient temp, but will cool at a rate of the wind chill. thus, swinging the isplay stick will give you an accurate temp reading as any temperature increase caused by holding it will be released by the air flow accrossed the stick but not lower then the ambient temperature. hope this is helpful.

[mtripoli]

Have a look at the LM94022. Price is $1.27 from Digikey you can get the data sheet there as well (I had a link but Digikey uses scripts and the link comes out bad). It has a couple of options for gain set through pins. The biggest downside to this part is the package; not user friendly for hand soldering.

IIRC the LM34 is a little weird that it requires a negative bias to give voltages below 0 or something, and it only operates down to 5V.

Good luck.