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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Oscillloscope to Flashdrive Interface

Students in the electronics labs have taken to using their cell phone cameras to take pictures of the oscilloscope screen for their lab reports. I think this is clever and, for what I want in a lab report, completely acceptable. However, some of scopes will also send the screen image to the printer via a IEEE488 (GPIB) bus and those scopes also have a a parallel printer port and an RS232 connector. It would be interesting project to add a flash drive interface to these scopes so that students could store a screen image to a file for later use.

(Note: The newer scopes in this series already have the flash drive interface.)