The riddle - on a Tektronix 453 oscilloscope (re-captured)

[CordylusLizard]

Brillant!

[spadehatesscrewtube]

nice.

[MarcelHIC]

Awesome!



[LinkTetraWW]

Whats that song from? Very neat.

[mrbear912]

May I ask how you took the data from the music video and transformed it into something that your chip could read? The only way I can comprehend doing this would be running each frame through a program capable of vectorizing bitmaps (such as Inkscape), and then writing some software to send the SVG'd frames to your microcontroller in a usable format... Am I even close?

[DGMRuadeil]

@mrbear912 personally i wouldn't vector graphics this, because then you have to render those vectors back to frames on the microcontroller which takes time.

[36OGames]

it looks like a Fallout 3 screen :D

[Jannis567]

Nice! Can you post the played sound (on the oscilloscope) as a download?

[spadehatesscrewtube]

i am nowhere near this level of skill, but i must say its awesome. just picked up a very old tektronix 535, i'm still kind of lost as to how i should even clean inside of it, much less use it for anything productive. does anyone know of a way to make your own probes? i lack them..

[NE5Freak]

@spadehatesscrewtube They are like $6 on ebay or dealextreme shipping included. For less precise testing you could however just connect 2 wires to a BNC connector.

[spadehatesscrewtube]

@NE5Freak you know, i was thinking of hacking up some bncs, thanks! (or for us americans, coax cables)

[stormsirens2]

Hey do you think you could re-record this with the Intesity (brightness) higher? because it's a little hard to see. I'm just curious.

[stormsirens2]

This is possible. here I found a circuit schematic that show it.

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[stormsirens2]

(dot) is because YT is having errors

[wrtlpfmpf]

So are you actually displaying video, or have you vectorized the video to display vectors?

[EangelMan]

Me podrian decir-......cual es el nombre de esa cancion?????

[CartCollector]

@EangelMan El cancion es "The Riddle" por Gigi D'Agostino.

[hellsmaw84]

nice program you written. Whats your horizontal and vertical scan rate for the images to be displayed correctly? nice scope btw! mine is a Tenma 20 MHz dual trace.

[scromega]

Cool. How did you do that?

[borri317]

is that raster or vector

[handsupbud]

Photoshopped

[joedog86]

Wow - this was fascinating. That took some serious talent in both animation and electronics. Great video!

[joedog86]

Oh, wait - I thought you had animated it. Just the same, it's still a great video.

[alanstarkie2001]

This reminds me of stories about the 1940s and 50s when Televisions were expensive. Guys used to buy war surplus radar sets and scopes and convert them into Televisions. That takes some doing with the technology of the day. This is really cool.

[hakemon]

That is just awesome, it does fit the oscilloscope perfectly.

Cause at first, it looks like a waveform, then just gets damn cool.

[Myke1576]

Look up VGA to scope converter and you should find a page where someone has made something similar. You may want to use faster op-amps and/or a more accurate sweep generator.

[matt9741399]

Again with the lights out?

[valpro99]

Wow. You have way too much time on your hands. Cool though.

[sybrfreq]

I still can't get over how perfectly this video fits this medium.

[moojuiceuk]

I can assure you, it's not a fake. See my other video showing the whole setup. Yes, it might be possible to chroma-key the scope screen, but Ive tried chroma keying and where I filemd that, the light levels were soo poor, chroma keying would not have worked at all well.

[samplesmasher]

ok, i havent seen the other vid before i saw this.

right, but why you didnt turn the intense-knob a bit in both directions while capturing this video?

this would convince me more. the other vid also could be made with a "green-screen" capturing video-tool. in both videos nothing is modified while recording.

[pandakickmyleg]

yeah the demand for fake oscilloscope music videos on youtube HAS NEVER BEEN HIGHER

[hellsmaw84]

@samplesmasher its not fake. the graticule is for the analysis of wave forms, voltages, and currents. Just because the graticule is a set area does not mean that the beam can trace outside of it. I would know, i have owned 2 like this and 2 with full graticules. this is real coming from an electronics hobbiest.

[BlokeFromBattersea]

Fantastic!!!

[hrford]

Wow, it's one thing to turn a scope into a TV, ramp generators? But it's a whole other thing to use some trippy content like that. Wierd :S

[webbugt]

Nice one! And the video actually looks better than the original. It really has the touch of realism. I'm beginning to be sick of that bright green.

Good work

[codenamecody]

thats pretty cool, its not actually playing on the oscilloscope right?

[NipkowDisk]

Outstanding!

[colegaspain]

se parece al de gigi d'agostino.

[ba244550]

amazing

[happymaster]

+fav :)

[captcabo]

cool stuff

[FFTG]

Really awesome song.. but.. how is this possible on an oscilloscope?

[gthreek]

Presumably once you fashion a video -> X/Y converter and set the scanning frequency high enough, it'll act like a conventional CRT monitor.

At least that's what I think, with my mediocre grasp of Physics.

[cpmisalive]

Yep, you're right.

OTOH - A CRT telly can be converted into a rudimentary oscilloscope, however, the aperture grille on a colour tube would produce some interesting effects!

With the final anode of a largish CRT telly running at 60kV - I'd rather not try it ;)

[jeabo0adhd]

used a computer with an DAC and a simple program

[Bleachlover190]

whas the song man, its totally awesome!!!!!!!!!

[TomoooTomooo]

Gigi D'Agostino - The Riddle

[Bleachlover190]

totally uber man

[Arrrrrrjay]

Holy Crap!!! This is awesome. I would also like to have the schematic if you dont mind sharing.

[74LS08]

Very original! I am actually looking for a way to do the opposite; convert X-Y image to a raster mode display.

[CapnSONiC]

Simply awesome!!

[bmused55]

I'll never look at an oscilloscope the same way again! Thats genius

[pandakickmyleg]

This is awesome.

[triton199]

SCHEMATIC PLEASE! very interested in this! would like to know more!

[Gazoogleheimer1]

That is really cool! I'd love to see the schematic!