Re: Building an oscilloscope at home
The oscilloscope is still a very important and useful instrument to equipment designers and service engineers, in my job as an embedded software engineer I could not manage without a 'scope for letting me 'see' what is happening when debugging and verifying the operation of my code. Modern professional 'scopes are very sophisticated in their abilities, certainly not cheap, and - in my experience - definately not being given away!
That is not to say that there is not 'cheap' equipment available more suited to experimenters and amateur users, however, I believe that the word 'cheap' must be qualified by the level of financial income and there is also the issue of local availability - two areas in which we are blessed here in the UK.
I wish you much success in your endeavours Miguel!
Adrian.
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