{"id":213,"date":"2025-10-18T03:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/?p=213"},"modified":"2025-10-18T03:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:06:06","slug":"harvest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"DIY Occiliscope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back, I was perusing the local dump and found a small CRT display. I&#8217;ve also needed an oscilloscope for diagnostics purposes for a long time, so I decided to take it home and convert it into an oscilloscope. The whole process was surprisingly painless. I essentially just took the cover off (very carefully, don&#8217;t go messing around with CRTs kids!), snipped the wires that controlled the Y axis deflection, then spliced them with an amplifier, which then connected to what I&#8217;m trying to monitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While not especially useful for diagnostics, it&#8217;s still an interesting project, and a cool desk piece.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think if I were to do it again, I would somehow increase the frequency of the flyback. The CRT appears to even out the edges of square waves, which I believe means that it&#8217;s not scanning fast enough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old cathode ray tube monitors have a lot of cool stuff inside. A lot of fun high voltage experiements can be done with just broken TVs and microwaves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I was perusing the local dump and found a small CRT display. I&#8217;ve also needed an oscilloscope for diagnostics purposes for a long time, so I decided to take it home and convert it into an oscilloscope. The whole process was surprisingly painless. I essentially just took the cover off (very carefully, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}