Lanterna Rally

Author: Joseph Berardi

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-23

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 9781693628054

Electronic Breadboard Projects for Oscilloscopes by Joseph BerardiThe "Electronic Breadboard Projects for Oscilloscopes" book introduces the project builder to building simple oscilloscope projects and incrementally adding features ultimately making a sophisticated oscilloscope utilizing an Arduino board.There is a separate tutorial for introducing the concepts for making an oscilloscope.A technical reference is included providing valuable information for using electronic components.The open-source Arduino embedded controller hardware is the brains for these oscilloscope projects. The open-source Arduino compiler and FreeBASIC compilers are downloaded from the internet for free. The FreeBASIC complier is a modern full-featured programming language producing standalone EXE programs. The generated EXE programs are small and efficient and can easily be run from a USB thumb-drive or from the PC's hard-drive. The Arduino boards can be programmed using a PC based application or a web-based tool and this book gives detailed instructions for using the PC installed compiler for uploading the code to the Arduino boards.There are numerous software projects with code examples for implementing these oscilloscope projects in various hardware configurations and software configurations. This book includes a language reference for both the Arduino sketch language and the FreeBASIC programming language in order to make this a complete reference for coding your own oscilloscope applications.This book includes an electronic reference loaded with manufacturer's data sheet information for using the components in the projects and introductory electronic circuit theory. There is an oscilloscope tutorial for learning the concepts of digitizing an analog signal and the subsystems for an oscilloscope system.The introductory oscilloscope project can be made in the matter of minutes. These oscilloscope projects utilize the Arduino embedded controllers: Uno and DUE. The hardware can be quickly built onto a solderless breadboard and the breadboard projects include several different types of oscillators including a function generator for observing or driving test circuits. This book demonstrates adding a simple circuit to the A/D input greatly improves the capability of the analog input including making it compatible with a standard passive oscilloscope probe. Using a standard oscilloscope probe allows extending the oscilloscope voltage range by a factor of ten.Another oscilloscope project demonstrates some of the advantages of using an external analog-to-digital converter over using the internal A/D converter found on the low-cost Arduino Uno board.The author has published numerous books for building electronic projects: Electronic Breadboard Projects for Oscilloscopes (2019) - solderless-breadboard-based hardwareBuildIt UNO Oscilloscope: Volume 19 (2019) - simple programming oscilloscope projectsElectronic Projects for the Test Bench (2018) - old-school test equipment projectsElectronic Projects for Oscilloscopes 2017 (published 2017) - new-school PCB projectsElectronic Projects for Oscilloscopes (updated 2017) - old-school PCB projectsElectronic Circuits 2nd Edition (2018) - circuit theory for beginnersThis book culminates with a demonstration FreeBASIC application for a GUI (graphical user interface) dashboard and a separate graphical plotting program for plotting waveforms from saved data files. The user can save waveform files and plot the data later for further study.Joseph Berardi is retired electronics engineer with twenty-four years' experience in development engineering.