If you own an oscilloscope, sooner or later the urge to see something other than signals on the screen will strike. Some people ignore the urge and go about their normal business while others give in, ...

Understanding RC circuits in your physics lab! 📊⚡ In this video, we’ll introduce you to the basics of using an oscilloscope to analyze Resistor-Capacitor (RC) circuits. Learn how to visualize voltage ...

It may have taken ten years to come through on this particular Kickstarter, but a promise is a promise. In late August 2023, backers who had since likely forgotten all about the project started ...

The key to identifying the location of an ESD source is by measuring the time of arrival between the two antennas.

Jerobeam Fenderson’s magic mushrooms will make you trip. But you don't have to eat these fungi to get their mesmerizing effects---just watch, and let them dance and multiply in front of you. Look, I’m ...

Oscilloscopes provide critical signal visibility for debugging, testing, and ensuring that electronic systems match developers’ imaginations. Specifying when the oscilloscope captures information ...

In a new episode of Elektor Engineering Insights, Elektor contributor Roberto Armani demonstrates practical methods for audio ...

An oscilloscope and a device under test (DUT) constitute a de-facto system. In it, the most overlooked element is the interface between the two: the oscilloscope’s probes. Test personnel simply grab ...

Figure 1: The silicon-based ultrafast optical oscilloscope. The pump-pulse bandwidth and the length of the dispersive path determine the record length and resolution of the oscilloscope. The ...

During the Soviet era that ended in 1991, trade between the Soviet Union and the outside world was largely blocked. Some test equipment managed to get in or out but by and large, the Soviet Union ...

Before Wiis and PlayStations, before you boasted about how many bits your console had, and before Ralph Baer's Odyssey first hit Sears shelves, a bored physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory ...