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

Thanks for the entertaining videos.  I can't really find where you say to post what you would do with this scope, so I am posting it here?  I am an official old fart who began his electronic hobby taking apart old tube television sets when I was a boy, back in the early 1960's.  The first thing I learned was what NOT to touch, an old junkman who gave me old sets showed me that wire on the tv picture tube to stay away from, and I can honestly say I never discharged a tube through myself. At any rate, my interest took me into the US Army back i n 70 when the recruiter told me he could get me into radios and telephone systems.  I ended up in the jungle in Vietnam stringing field wire through the trees.  When I got back to the States, I discovered that the officer corps took advantage of those of us in Communications to repair their old tube TV sets, so we set up a small shop in the commo shed and took care of those, all the time learning more and more about electronics.  When I got out of the Army some 8 years later, I gave up on my hobby pretty much, still fixing a neighbors TV or an old radio on occasion but my main interest was in my new career as a police officer. Well in '93 an accident pulled the badge pin for ever, and as I was healing up, I picked up a Commodore 128, and again fell in love with electricity,  but this time it was digital. Since then I have been fixing computers both laptops, and desktops for neighbors, and for a long time, I  was the only one in a small town in South Dakota who could fix the infernal machines, so I was called to businesses, hospitals and the lot.  At last a couple of repair men came to town, and much to my relief the phone stopped it's ringing. So anyhow, when Winter was approaching us in SD where it is bitter cold, and my wife, who suffers from a lung ailment was getting worse every day, we decided to flee the cold and headed down to Topock Arizona, where we are now enjoying the sun, the dry air, and the copious amounts of wind. I took along my Raspberry Pi, a few arduinos some touch screens and a few home built power packs, some powerful LEDs for night fun, and my home built sound card scope that does work for some things, but is really just a toy when you get down to it.  I keep playing with electronics, and try to learn a bit more every day, so that neat little desktop scope would be just ideal in our old motor home, when the wind keeps us indoors and the broken TV antenna refuses to bring in the needed entertainment.

Thanks for the entertaining videos.  I can't really find where you say to post what you would do with this scope, so I am posting it here?  I am an official old fart who began his electronic hobby taking apart old tube television sets when I was a boy, back in the early 1960's.  The first thing I learned was what NOT to touch, an old junkman who gave me old sets showed me that wire on the tv picture tube to stay away from, and I can honestly say I never discharged a tube through myself. At any rate, my interest took me into the US Army back i n 70 when the recruiter told me he could get me into radios and telephone systems.  I ended up in the jungle in Vietnam stringing field wire through the trees.  When I got back to the States, I discovered that the officer corps took advantage of those of us in Communications to repair their old tube TV sets, so we set up a small shop in the commo shed and took care of those, all the time learning more and more about electronics.  When I got out of the Army some 8 years later, I gave up on my hobby pretty much, still fixing a neighbors TV or an old radio on occasion but my main interest was in my new career as a police officer. Well in '93 an accident pulled the badge pin for ever, and as I was healing up, I picked up a Commodore 128, and again fell in love with electricity,  but this time it was digital. Since then I have been fixing computers both laptops, and desktops for neighbors, and for a long time, I  was the only one in a small town in South Dakota who could fix the infernal machines, so I was called to businesses, hospitals and the lot.  At last a couple of repair men came to town, and much to my relief the phone stopped it's ringing. So anyhow, when Winter was approaching us in SD where it is bitter cold, and my wife, who suffers from a lung ailment was getting worse every day, we decided to flee the cold and headed down to Topock Arizona, where we are now enjoying the sun, the dry air, and the copious amounts of wind. I took along my Raspberry Pi, a few arduinos some touch screens and a few home built power packs, some powerful LEDs for night fun, and my home built sound card scope that does work for some things, but is really just a toy when you get down to it.  I keep playing with electronics, and try to learn a bit more every day, so that neat little desktop scope would be just ideal in our old motor home, when the wind keeps us indoors and the broken TV antenna refuses to bring in the needed entertainment.