Category Archives: oscilloscope

DIY home made portable oscilloscope

An ATmega328 based portable home made oscilloscope with ADC from Creative Engineering: It is basically a small scaled digital oscilloscope. It is capable of displaying all type of waveform like sine, triangular, square, etc. It’s bandwidth is above 1 MHz and input impedance is about 600K. The device is mainly using the ATmega328 micro-controller as […]

TS100 oscilloscope hack

Befinitiv wrote an article describing his modification to turn a TS100 soldering iron into an oscilloscope: As you can see in the video, you can use the soldering tip as your measurement probe. Coincidentally, a soldering iron has already a pretty good form factor for an oscilloscope. Here is a still picture of a UART waveform […]

An almost-GHz active differential oscilloscope probe (Part 3)

Christer Weinigel wrote a series of three posts about how he built a active differential scope probe which is usable up to about a GHz: This is part three of a series about building a active differential oscilloscope probe. Part 1 covered why I wanted a differential probe and the design of it. Part 2 […]

Software Spectrum Analyzer for the Rigol 1000 series oscilloscopes

rheslip writes: I came up with this idea after seeing Farhan Ashar’s spectrum analyzer design which uses some of the same bits and pieces I used in the Simple Scalar Network Analyzer. Farhan’s is a classic heterodyne SA design – the addition of mixers and filters in front of the power detector makes the analyzer […]

Wavewatch, a soundcard oscilloscope and waveform generator

 D4p0up shared his open source soundcard oscilloscope in the project log forum: Here is a tool that might help some of you in your DIY activities : WaveWatch, a soundcard oscilloscope 100% made with Processing. I’ve just released the 1.3 version, making it a very credible, user friendly and totally open source alternative to existing soundcard […]

Yet another laser oscilloscope

Kerry Wong writes: You can generate some pretty amazing patterns by shining a laser onto a mirror mounted on a vibrating speaker cone, a lot of people have experimented with this kind of laser show. But how about building a true laser oscilloscope that is capable of displaying signals? In this post, I will show […]

LaserOscope project

Steve Schuler over at Science2.0 published a new build: A laser oscilloscope using Lego, littleBits, Erector set, and the Kano Computer Build a laser oscilloscope using Lego, littleBits, Erector set, and the Kano Computer. In honor of The International Year of Light I’ll demonstrate how use the Kano computer to drive a littleBits motor with an […]

DIY active differential probe characterization

An 1GHz active differential probe project by Daniel Kramnik: This project was an ultra high input impedance (0.5pF||30MΩ or better) high bandwidth differential oscilloscope probe designed, built, and revised over the course of two weekends for the 2014 MakeMIT hardware hackathon. It can be built for about $30 in parts, plus the cost of etching or sending […]

DIY USB-Oscilloscope in a matchbox

ajoyraman posted a tutorial on how to make a DIY USB-matchbox oscilloscope,  an instructable here: In order to economize on the cost of an enclosure while still providing an aesthetic unit the Aj_Scope2 is enclosed in a large size cardboard matchbox enclosure. The USB connection to the PC is on one end while the Audio-Jack […]

PC storage oscilloscope and logic analyzer

From the comments on our earlier USB oscilloscope with signal generator post, here’s a PC storage oscilloscope and logic analyzer by Nerd Ralph: A logic analyzer is a useful tool when working with micro-controllers, but when compared to the price of Arduino compatible boards, they are expensive. While the ability to decode different protocols is a […]

USB oscilloscope with signal generator

Jan Henrik wrote this Instructable detailing the build of his DIY USB oscilloscope with signal generator: In this project I want to show you how to make an easy and cheap USB Oscilloscope. Specifications: Price: 20$ Frequency: 2-20000HZ Resolution: 16 Bit Voltage range: +-7V / with probe +-70V Channels: 2 X-Y Mode Signal generator: Sine, Square, Triangular and Sawtooth […]

Silver bullet oscilloscope IR receiver

The crew from AnalysIR have shared a simple technique for viewing the mark and space data from IR transmission on an oscilloscope. They call it the “silver bullet” method. The idea is to use a standard IR Led mounted into a BNC/RCA plug using a spare channel making an Oscilloscope infrared receiver. So we set […]

Tektronix MDO4104B-6 mixed domain oscilloscope (MDO4000B) review and experiments

Tektronix MDO4104B-6 mixed domain oscilloscope (MDO4000B) review and experiments by  Shahriar: In this episode Shahriar reviews and demos the second revision of the industry’s first Mixed Domain Oscilloscope from Tektronix. The MDO4000B series offers improved signal integrity and performance. The reviewed model is a MDO4104B-6 which offers 16-Channel Logic Analyzer, 4-Channel Oscilloscope with 1GHz of analog […]

Experiments and demo of an Agilent DSA-X 96204Q 160GS/s 62GHz oscilloscope

Shahriar writes: In this episode Shahriar demos the world’s fastest oscilloscope! The Agilent DSA-X 96204Q offers 160GS/s of conversion rate with a bandwidth of 62GHz on two dedicated ‘RealEdge’ channels. It can also provide 80GS/s conversion rate and 33GHz of bandwidth on four simultaneous channels. The unit demoed in this video is equipped with all […]

The Oscilloscope Watch

If you want to carry around a portable oscilloscope device at all times then check out this cool geek watch, the Oscilloscope Watch by Gabriel Anzziani of Gabotronics: The Oscilloscope Watch has all the features of a modern watch (time, calendar, alarm, etc…) combined with all the features of the popular Xprotolab (Oscilloscope, Waveform Generator, Logic Analyzer, Protocol […]