These PicoScopes look pretty cool :]
As it happens I am just now trying to free up some garage space to get an
electronics bench together. But it's coming up on 20 years since I last
soldered and it's a whole different world with scopes now. So thanks for
this thread!
Also if anybody knows good
Hi Remy,
I use the signal generator all the time to calibrate the pot on the
probes when in x10 mode using the square wave output. Note that the
scope runs off USB power so you can't generate very hot signals, it's
+- 2V (USB is 5V), you'll need to make your own external booster
circuit for
hi,
AudioPrecision looks nice but it's way over my budget considering that
it won't be used on a daily basis.
Looking at the specs, the QuantAsylum audio card only seems to have AC
coupling (down to 1.6Hz) and their oscillosccope page is a bit short on
details.
Hacking a soundcard as an
Depending on how cheap and improvised you want to go, and how handy you are
with basic electronics, you can easily adapt your soundcard to work as an
oscilloscope. There are a number of guides on the internet on how to do
this, such as:
http://makezine.com/projects/sound-card-oscilloscope/
I
Picoscope make the cheapest 16-bit scopes around (USD 1000), the
16-bit stuff from Tektronix is a lot more expensive (USD 31000 -
that's right I didn't accidentally add an extra zero, it's x30 the
price). I would recommend using the Picoscope and use Python's easy c
bindings to call the Picoscope
