turn your expensive oscilloscope into a $5 clock

On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:44:41 -0700, "J.A. Legris"
<jalegris@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>On Nov 2, 11:07 am, "BrunoG" <nore...@micro-examples.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is my suggestion to turn your oscilloscope into a clock with a PIC a 4
>> resistors :http://www.micro-examples.com/public/microex-navig/doc/082-pic-oscill...
>>
>> I'm opened to your destructive comments :)
>>
>> Bruno
>
>For you next project, build a device that will accept a string of
>characters and convert them to a voltage function of time, as in the
>logo for the Plessey Company:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey



Here's my company logo, as a vector display and an x-y analog scope:

http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=htilogomm7.jpg

John

John Larkin wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:44:41 -0700, "J.A. Legris"
> <jalegris@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Nov 2, 11:07 am, "BrunoG" <nore...@micro-examples.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Here is my suggestion to turn your oscilloscope into a clock with a PIC a 4
>>>resistors :http://www.micro-examples.com/public/microex-navig/doc/082-pic-oscill...
>>>
>>>I'm opened to your destructive comments :)
>>>
>>>Bruno
>>
>>For you next project, build a device that will accept a string of
>>characters and convert them to a voltage function of time, as in the
>>logo for the Plessey Company:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Here's my company logo, as a vector display and an x-y analog scope:
> 
> http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=htilogomm7.jpg
> 
> John
> 
Hmm,
  Curious how you got the black out lines around the image? is this a
color scope?


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On Nov 4, 1:28 am, redbelly <redbell...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 2, 11:07 am, "BrunoG" <nore...@micro-examples.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Here is my suggestion to turn your oscilloscope into a clock with a PIC a 4
> > resistors :http://www.micro-examples.com/public/microex-navig/doc/082-pic-oscill...
>
> > I'm opened to your destructive comments :)
>
> > Bruno
>
> Neat.
>
> Could one make the 4th "unused" voltage level something out of range
> of the display, so that the extra lines are not visible?

Some scopes have a Z-axis intensity/blanking input which could
probably be used for that.

Dave.

On 4 nov, 01:01, John Larkin
<jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:44:41 -0700, "J.A. Legris"
>
> <jaleg...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >On Nov 2, 11:07 am, "BrunoG" <nore...@micro-examples.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Here is my suggestion toturnyouroscilloscopeinto a clock with a PIC a 4
> >> resistors :http://www.micro-examples.com/public/microex-navig/doc/082-pic-oscill...
>
> >> I'm opened toyourdestructive comments :)
>
> >> Bruno
>
> >For you next project, build a device that will accept a string of
> >characters and convert them to a voltage function of time, as in the
> >logo for the Plessey Company:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey
>
> Here's my company logo, as a vector display and an x-y analog scope:
>
> http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=htilogomm7.jpg
>
> John

Hi, did you do that with photoshop ;-)????
I can do it with gimp LOL.
Anyways,I decided to take your challenge, and played this Sunday
afternoon:
  http://panteltje.com/panteltje/scope_tv/

On 2 nov, 16:07, "BrunoG" <nore...@micro-examples.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is my suggestion toturnyouroscilloscopeinto a clock with a PIC a 4
> resistors :http://www.micro-examples.com/public/microex-navig/doc/082-pic-oscill...
>
> I'm opened toyourdestructive comments :)
>
> Bruno

It is clever, but why not go TV?
I could make a movie of my digital clock.....
 http://panteltje.com/panteltje/scope_tv/

BrunoG wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is my suggestion to turn your oscilloscope into a clock with a PIC a 4 
> resistors :
> http://www.micro-examples.com/public/microex-navig/doc/082-pic-oscillo-clock
> 
> I'm opened to your destructive comments :)
> 

There is one thing that I didn't understand: are you guys have terribly 
nothing to do?

If you show a TV picture using an oscilloscope, could it be a way around 
the TV tax in some countries?


Vladimir Vassilevsky
DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
http://www.abvolt.com

Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:

>There is one thing that I didn't understand: are you guys have terribly
>nothing to do?

Have you never created designs just for the joy of doing so?

>If you show a TV picture using an oscilloscope, could it be a way around
>the TV tax in some countries?

I suspect it is the signal received that is taxed rather than the receiver.

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On Nov 3, 2:07 am, "BrunoG" <nore...@micro-examples.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is my suggestion to turn your oscilloscope into a clock with a PIC a 4
> resistors :http://www.micro-examples.com/public/microex-navig/doc/082-pic-oscill...
>
> I'm opened to your destructive comments :)
>
> Bruno

The entire image needs to move slowly around on the screen randomly to
prevent screen burn-in.

Dave.

On Nov 3, 4:07 am, "BrunoG" <nore...@micro-examples.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is my suggestion to turn your oscilloscope into a clock with a PIC a 4
> resistors :http://www.micro-examples.com/public/microex-navig/doc/082-pic-oscill...
>
> I'm opened to your destructive comments :)
>
> Bruno

Can you go the other way and turn a $5 clock into a scope!

Hardy

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:28:33 +0000, Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:

> If you show a TV picture using an oscilloscope, could it be a way around 
> the TV tax in some countries?

Nope; at least, not in the UK. If you receive a TV broadcast (whether by
radio, cable, internet[1], etc), you are required to pay the licence fee.

If you have a normal TV set, but only ever use it for watching DVDs (or as
a monitor for CCTV or an old home microcomputer), you don't need a
licence. OTOH, if you record broadcasts with a VCR, but don't actually
have a TV, you still need a licence.

[1] Internet downloads or video-on-demand streams don't require a licence,
only broadcasts. The distinction is whether the viewers all watch
concurrently, so a a streaming service where each viewer's stream starts
when that viewer connects isn't a broadcast.