Tutorial WALKTHROUGH
(^44) July 2018 raspberrypi.org/magpi
Make your own oscilloscope using a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino
MIKE COOK
Veteran magazine author from the old
days and writer of the Body Build series.
Co-author of Raspberry Pi for Dummies,
Raspberry Pi Projects, and Raspberry Pi
Projects for Dummies.
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MIKE’S PI BAKERY
he oscilloscope is on the wish list of anyone
starting out with electronics. Your author
used to tell his students that it was your eyes,
making electricity visible. Unfortunately, they are
quite expensive: from a few hundred pounds to up
T
Uno, Nano,
Mega or any
AVR-based
Arduino
3 × 10 kΩ
potentiometers
4 × 100 kΩ
resistors
1 × 1 kΩ resistor
1 × 1 μF
capacitor
2 × 47 μF
capacitors
BNC panel
mounting
socket
Box
Various, nuts
bolts, and
spacers
Stripboard
You’ll
Need
BUILD AN
OSCILLOSCOPE
Oscilloscope waveform
with time and voltage
measurements
Signal generator providing
a test sweep waveform
Arduino oscilloscope
to £5000 and beyond. However, by using an Arduino
and some software on the Raspberry Pi, you can make
a passable beginner’s oscilloscope.
Last September, in The MagPi #61, there was an
article outlining the way the Raspberry Pi and the
Do not use this on
mains electricity!
WARNING!