RSSLED O-scope schematic
No substitute for a professional oscilloscope by far - but still could be a fun project to have a go at -
probably the best advantage is its very small size and the fact that it can run off the power supply of the circuit being tested. Although it has a low frequency range, it can still be used for most circuits. Its poor resolution will still allow for most waveforms to be visualized."- Solid State Oscilloscope
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It uses a matrix of 100 LED's for a display, and does suffer from being slow and having rather poor resolution. Still we could display a sine wave running at 500Hz without trouble
Related:
Video: Dave Clausen and his LED oscilloscope project
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Jun 12, 2008 06:30 AM
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| Posted by: The Oracle on June 12, 2008 at 10:36 AM |
There was an article about building an LED oscilliscope in popular electronics 10-15 years ago. I think it used a 20x20 array of LEDs.
| Posted by: Captain Brock on June 12, 2008 at 10:43 AM |
I built a fancy version of this twenty years ago. It worked. Mine ganged two 4017s to achieve 16 columns (time resolution.) I also included a trigger circuit and selectable time periods. The major limitation was speed; I could only look at signals to about 12 KHz. Ironically, I had to use a real O-scope to get the thing going! I still have it packed away. A nice addition was a separate traingle wave sweep generator for demonstration.
Nowadays you have a great selection of packaged LED arrays which is nice!
| Posted by: Rob Cruickshank on June 12, 2008 at 11:45 AM |
A very similar circuit can be found in Forrest Mim's Engineer's Notebook, apparently adapted from a 1979 Popular Electronics article.
| Posted by: The Oracle on June 12, 2008 at 12:15 PM |
The author of the Popular Electronics article found it very amusing that his also needed a real oscilloscope to build his.
There's something nice about seeing these old projects revisited.
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