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What Does an Oscilloscope Look Like in Slow Motion?

What Does an Oscilloscope Look Like in Slow Motion?

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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See an oscilloscope function like you never have before — captured on slow motion footage at an incredible 1,000 frames per second.

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Pump Your Tunes Through This Waveform Display Headphone Amplifier

Pump Your Tunes Through This Waveform Display Headphone Amplifier

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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Justin Yates, who has a degree in both electrical engineering and computer science, built a headphone amplifier with a waveform display.

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Tripped-Out, Impressive Musical Drawings on an Oscilloscope

Tripped-Out, Impressive Musical Drawings on an Oscilloscope

By Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.

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On Create Digital Music, our friend Peter Kirn has posted an exciting piece about an artist and maker, Jerobeam Fenderson, who has figured out how to generate dynamic musical drawings on an oscilloscope. Peter explains: Graz-based artist Jerobeam Fenderson is out to solve an age-old problem in the literal fusion of image and sound. Simply […]

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How To Draw Dancing Mushrooms With An Oscilloscope

How To Draw Dancing Mushrooms With An Oscilloscope

By Nick Normal

Nick Normal

I'm an artist & maker. A lifelong biblioholic, and advocate for all-things geekathon. Home is Long Island City, Queens, which I consider the greatest place on Earth. 5-year former Resident of Flux Factory, co-organizer for World Maker Faire (NYC), and blogger all over the net. Howdy!

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Austrian musician Jerobeam Fenderson performs animations using oscilloscopes, and in this video demonstrates how to draw a mushroom on screen. Or a couple of mushrooms. Or a field of mushrooms!

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Projects with Ryan Slaugh: Active Filters & Tool Suggestions

Projects with Ryan Slaugh: Active Filters & Tool Suggestions

By Ryan Slaugh

Ryan Slaugh

Ryan Slaugh is a hardware and software engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and building different systems. While he has a few college degrees, his best training came from growing up on a farm and working with his father who was also an electrician. Ryan works regularly with woodworking, metal work, electronics, and software. Ryan also has a love of tools and collects as many as he can.

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Over the last few videos I have highlighted helpful circuits. In this video, I highlight an active filter setup utilizing an operational amplifier. Filters are very helpful when working with analog signals.  Often the range of frequencies needed are not across the entire band, therefore you need to filter out those that inhibit a clean […]

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