Use a Laptop as a Oscilloscope?

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19 March 2002, 02:07 PM

Dr Hu

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I have a user who swears he has seen some kit which will let him use his laptop as an oscilloscope......it doesnt sound too unreasonable I suppose.....

Anyone here (oh! the power of Scoobynet!) who has heard of or done this?

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19 March 2002, 02:57 PM

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I have asked here. it can be done!
Either through soundcard input with appropriate software - estimated ~ £125
or though proper PCMIA card dedicated.

Hope this helps

Mick

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19 March 2002, 04:19 PM

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FYI

PICO Technology
Sound Card Type
Motion Village
External Type
ETC

Looks like for a laptop you'll need some type of external oscilloscope and then feed the data to the software for output on the laptop.

If you have a PC, you could fit an oscilloscope card.

Stefan

[Edited by ozzy - 3/19/2002 4:26:58 PM]