The advent of inexpensive standardized 16- and 24-bit audio I/O hardware for personal computers inspired a rush of oscilloscope simulating applications. Many of these “Sound Card Scopes” are quite ...

My ham and audio-nut Rob tipped me of to a fully featured but free software that turns your PC sound card into an audio-frequency scope. It even does X-Y mode so Bob Pease would approve, if he doesn’t ...

Using the inputs on a computer’s sound card is an old trick to fake a very simplistic, AC coupled, slow oscilloscope. You can get DC operation by desoldering a couple capacitors, but if the sound card ...

Smarter Every Day's Destin Sandlin visits a pair of artists who show how to "draw" sound on an oscilloscope Smarter Every Day's Destin Sandlin visits a pair of artists who show how to "draw" sound on ...

If you want to visualize sound waves, you reach for your oscilloscope, right? That wasn’t an option in 1905 so physicist [Heinrich Rubens] came up with another way involving flames. [Luke Guigliano] ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An oscilloscope uses a two-axis graph to give a visual representation of a waveform over time, ...