Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi Bitscope Mod Episode -- Episode 223

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In this episode Ben and Felix make a DIY Raspberry Pi Oscilloscope using the Bitscope and a Raspberry Pi 2.

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nobble over 9 years ago

Wow! So many things you can do with Pi!
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Former Member over 9 years ago

This would be so useful - multimeter isn't cutting it anymore trying to diagnose vintage hardware that I have lying around.
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retrogamer over 9 years ago

Cool build. I can see some people doing this and it being very useful. Nice little desktop stand alone unit. Good job!
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charles5185 over 9 years ago

That was a nice build! nice job! I would use that while i learn about electronics and engineering, I have no analyzing equipment yet ....its cost prohibitive for me at the moment

PS love the show
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beacon_dave over 9 years ago

Just as an aside, for those using the Atmel Studio IDE, then there is a feature called Data Visualizer which is a little bit like Bitscope.
Data Visualizer -

You can see it being used in Atmel's tutorial where it is being to examine a PWM waveform captured from an ATmega328 eval board:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnIVdHBbz6E
and also examining USART Tx activity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7eBvkfabg

As pointed out in the video, it needs to be used in conjunction with the likes of Atmel's Xplained Pro evaluation boards. The one shown in the video is the SAM D21 Xplained Pro:
http://uk.farnell.com/samd21-xplained-pro-atmel

For people on a limited budget, then this may be a lower cost entry point to get some basic scope like functionality.

Perhaps a comparison between various scopes could be done in a future video.
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clem57 over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

Jamie Tupholme look for button to get support files. Thanks makerkaren
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beacon_dave over 9 years ago in reply to reibuehl

Just wait until you come across the Yuki and Pame languages where they use octal instead of decimal because they count using the spaces between their fingers as opposed to their fingers...
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reibuehl over 9 years ago in reply to makerkaren

Oh yes, I forgot... USA, Liberia and Myanmar... :-)
When will you finally give in and get rid of that imperial crap...
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beacon_dave over 9 years ago in reply to makerkaren

You could have ended up with a 'microscope' there !
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makerkaren over 9 years ago in reply to reibuehl

I just measured the bitscope and it looks like those measurements are correct, but the units should be inches not mm.
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