oscilloscope

  • Getting An Old Digital O-Scope To Output To A Computer Monitor

    Michael over at AcidBourbon recently got his mitts on an older (circa 1990) digital oscilloscope and wanted to see if he could hack a way to plot the screen from the ‘scope on his computer. The unit he’s hacking is the GOULD 4094, 200MHz digital storage oscilloscope with four input channels. With no proprietary software…

  • One Guy’s Endeavor Into Grading Microamps & Milliamps At A 3 MHz Bandwidth

    Recently I needed to actually “see” a current waveform in the 100 uA to 5 mA range with at least a couple MHz bandwidth. This extremely expensive probe would have been perfect, but instead I built something similar for about $30 using the amazing Analog Devices AD8428 amplifier. Rather than buying an extremely costly o-scope…