Youscope (oscilloscope demo)

[carrollbarn1026]

This is one "noxious" video. =p

[neadr2004]

nerds gone wild :)))



[kiezel87]

If anyone could read that scrolling bottom text I buy him/her a beer!

[SaviourSole]

1430 people high on marywanna.



[hakemon]

I tried this on my Tektronics 2236, and the picture is inverted, and has extra traces on the screen. I was able to fix it vertically by inverting the Y channel, but the X channel does not have this.

[thephantom1492]

@hakemon the problem isn't the scope, it's your player that invert the waveform. This is common and is fine for our ears, but bad for oscope view

[canalQuaDuece]

@florickwar2 LMAO I must be one, but why don't I look like one? Well afterall, Lasik surgery, exotic hoodrats and HipHop answers that question ;)

@tejeez cool vid..and all I wanted to know was what an osciloscope was, after reading an ad on craigslist...but I already knew what it was...thanks to FL Studio!

by the way..can it be programmed to go with music soundwaves too?

[super6plx]

whoah when it started moving in 3D that's when I was like DUH WHAAA?!? xD

that's cool rofl

[FadeToBlack181]

I find this exceptionally easy to masturbate to.

[sergeant5027]

fake

[Juiple]

Engineers: this is what we do when we get bored.

[computerwiz222]

@Juiple Yeah.. and then I see this video and draw various logos on the screen - nothing nearly as cool as this though

[hitachi088]

@Juiple youscope was invented by a 16years old i think.

[TheRealGeriBoss]

Epic scope mod FTW! You rock!

[atcode333]

Very nice! The image is quite good when the signal is playing from a PSP=D

[Zernek]

Can someone reupload a song, link is broken.

[dacan02]

Does not look good on digital osciloscope

[suparichieh]

@dacan02 you might want to turn off several features of digital oscilloscopes. They are usually taking several measurements and overlaing each other, probably you have to turn it off. Also make shure its not your soundcards fault.

[TecnoVirtu]

This is AWESOME..

I have a question.. What program you used for making the signals and how many days or months you spend in the project?

[CredanR]

Enjoy the original sound file that produces the sound waves...

Gave me a headache right off the bat.

[Lorenzo763]

1:13 apple symbol FTW!

[runescapefacefan]

so different sounds make different patterns? and you just found the right sounds?

:O thats amazing!

[fourbarposer]

Was this made with AVS? I recall reading that there was a way to use it to output to laser scanners instead of the PC screen and I figure that the laser scanners use same method as the oscope XY display. There's a plugin for AVS from 2006 that simulates XY oscilloscope display so I imagine that's helpful if anyone wants to do their custom stuff.

[kinmanyuen]

OMG WE NEED A SUCCESSOR FOR THE VECTREX!!!

[RazzWasThere]

Whoa that was cool

[94svtbird]

wow, those are really the waveforms of music? awesome. Im getting my first oscope soon the owon portable digital and I have a good idea of what I will be playing with first. Audio reproduction is what drew me to the electrical engineering field and I believe it will be what I focus on as a intro to electrical engineering.

[Grundalizer]

I remember hooking up one of our old osciliscopes from our lab and after playing with it for 30 minutes turning every knob possible I was able to see the patterns you see on yours. Problem is, a year later, I'm doing the same thing and can't get the patterns back. I have my Ch1 and CH2, black clip from CH1 and Red clip from CH2 plugged in, it's on AC, BOTH channel mode, and have messed with everything. Whare are your V/DIV and SEC/DIV settings at? And what Mode are you in? Thanks!!!

[samd65]

@Grundalizer It sounds like you're hooking up both the left and right to vertical inputs. What you need to do is hook one up to a vertical input and one up to the external horizontal input.

[Berdi86]

so ähnlich sieht´s aus wenn ich meine Hirnströme mess XD

[Berdi86]

so ähnlich sieht´s aus wenn ich meine Hirnströme mess XD

[patagona97]

you can put the sound file to a mp3-player and use it as a screensaver for the scope :-)

[easternmafia]

:)

i know how it feels. when u get into your macine u want more and more...

[typesix]

That's a bitchin' tune you got going on.

[florickwar2]

this is what makes a nerd happy .

[huhabah]

@florickwar2 i guess im a nerd then.

oh, pwn.

[masterpj55]

Really really really nice

[cobrachoppergirl]

Lol I used this video sound output to calibrate my RCA WO-33a I bought from Salvation Army today for $5. I wish you would of shown your Oscilliscope output to this sound, so I could of calibrated mine to look identical.

[jesterod]

would this work with a homemade laser oscilloscope?

[hinz1]

Cool demo, smart idea to directly use the stereo output of a soundcard as XY deflection generator.

Just tried it with a Thinkpad X32 on my Tek 7904A scope, works great , but isn't as beautiful here.

[1MaxSpace]

Please tell me what the frequency of wave?

[Andreas861993]

lol ist das nicht dazu da was zu messen und nicht ne um ne halbe show zu bringen Xd

[antienjigglement]

Great way to do it - -the sound card.

[Danielcory]

Is that really an ossiliscope doing that or is it just special effects?

[ubuntututorials]

I can't do this with my DSO. It's not fast enough (only updates ~5 times a second with XY mode and is limited to about 5 kHz). :( I'm thinking of getting an analog scope just to do cool stuff like this.

[Computerfreaq15]

you need a vectorscope, right? I'm kinda a no0b

[VoteCthulhuNow]

whoa this is so freaky and cool :psyduck:

[kittykat490]

Aaaah... I'm a 13-year-old girl that pretty much fails at everything cool but I have an oscilloscope... The most I can do is make little dots move across the screen by turning the knobs...

[lancedulak]

@kittykat490 Try testing things. heres something cool. get an old headphone and strip a piece of the wires. onnect one lead of your oscilloscope to one each of the wires til you get some kind of signal. try setting the volt/div to .5 and the knob on right is time. you can "see" your music.

[Figm0]

thank you for making this

[lolhuisje]

has anyone tried this with a laser projector??? i guess this system could easily be transferred to lasers :O would give a really cool effect imo ;)

[electfire]

omg i saw a koch triangle on it.

[zknn93]

W O W

[winkhvac]

fake

[pauljs75]

I think this lends itself to another application. Using broken headphones (working speakers), an MP3 player, a tiny mirror, and a laser pointer, it seems possible to rig them together into a relatively cheap and very portable DIY laser light show system. (If it works the way I think it does, then how it would go together seems obvious enough. Affixing each speaker such that it only deflects the mirror on a single axis will be the hard part.) I may have to make a vid if I ever pull it off.

[xelibri21]

I had no idea you can make sh*t that crazy on oscilloscope! Damn this is cool!

[spagamoto]

Now someone needs to make a waveform that:

1- sounds good when listened to, and

2- when displayed on a scope in x-y mode, makes graphics like these

That would be quite leet.

[Joelduffy]

Recently acquired a Tektronix 2213a, and it's my new favorite toy. I had to fix it first though, but what do you expect from a free piece of equipment?

[xorg62]

1:30 "PRÖÖT" subliminal! :D

[PerfectChaos]

It's Like the Matrix Effect! AWESOME.

[darkdjo]

Very cool !! How does it works ??

[vikenemesh]

the oscilloscope's Y- and X-offset Inputs are feeded from the left and right soundchannel of a normal soundcard, the rest is software.

[distorzijastv]

Haha, I just tried it.. it really works.. :))

[lin2k4]

I used oscilloscopes in school and never saw anything this cool...

[CATA20034]

Yes , it's colled phase shifting , but how the f_k can you make something like that? Some of these figures i have seen on mine too , but the cube....

[RuslanMasinjila]

Im working with these babies. ELG2136.

[RAWRAWRWAR]

is that all it does. i was going to get one for 400 and i just changed my mind

[garrysurrey]

firstly is this for real?

secondly the song is fackin epic

and thirdly please explain how this is done :)

[tefan]

woah thats insane :D

[ScottieNiven]

What the name of song??

[typesix]

name of song Youscope soundtrack, link to song in comment

[typesix]

The tune kicks nuts!

[Tilex1990]

last time I tried it with my scope, it was somewhat shifted by 90 degrees. looked kinda strange. i thought it worked for me once.. what ever. btw: i always make the mistake to leave on my equalizer in winamp, when playing back the input file. that has really awkward effects on the picture of the scope :P

bye

[teamascii]

Shifted by 90 degrees? I think you've got X and Y inputs reversed. Try to swap them or if you can't, reverse channels in the WAV file.

[Tilex1990]

it tried to swap them but then i couldn't trigger the signal properly. i'll try to swap the channels of playback then. thx and bye :)

[bbuubbi]

X Y based?

like a tv?

[bbuubbi]

computer edited?

[Trondheim18]

So what is a Oscilloscope

[Scorchripper]

Proot :) ???

[crankitupforshow]

very cool! you can do this like in virtual oscilloscope in winamp too ;)

[MrRodrigez]

pretty epic for vector based if you ask me

[Andrew64of88]

So what were you measuring, output voltage? :)

[CATA20034]

how the f***?

[hasinajamal]

haha! awesome

[NuclearNade]

technoporn XD

[zenetom]

:O brutal

[cubix150x]

Awesome :D

[GeeksRus95]

spirograph 1:02-1:17 or 1:20

[Set271]

Brings me back to my younger years and using my fathers o-scope and his love of vacuum tubes and me already into digital circuits realizing then where electronics might take us....keep it out of the normal, that's where innovation sleeps....

[everynamealreadygone]

It's a nice demo, but not all that impressive. After all, computer games were doing vector graphics back in the 70s and 80s, albeit not via a DAC on a sound card... Probably a bit slower too :)

[wiesoachso]

wohoooooo... fucking impressive!

[stoopidkevin]

wtf its so trippy

[jSinsky]

Hehe, I must try this in home;]

[djhiran]

i don't believe this

wow cool

is it really really real?

[Rundfunk90]

Yeah it's reaaally really real. With a computer you can do it your self

[pmgodfrey]

Cool... But it now seems obvious that my scope needs to be calibrated...

Either way - I'm going to watch this till I fall asleep!

[happymerc]

way better than any of microsofts media player visualizations.

[Sulleric]

ah, I hadn't read the last sentence of the description for some reason and I thought you were saying that your demo was getting fudged.

nevermind.

[Sulleric]

this is quite impressive. I've been hacking a CRT and running audio signals out of Max/MSP to achieve this effect, but haven't got anywhere near this kind of complexity.

The "low-pass filter" you're referring to is actually what is called the Nyquist frequency, and is not an effect of your player but a fundamental characteristic of digital recording. Get yourself a DAC that can play back audio at 96khz and you'll have much better results.

[tejeez]

It actually is...

For example, a 10kHz sine wave looks like this without lpf: tinyurl . com / nhs52e . Great for drawing pixels on oscilloscope but contains lots of aliasing products (above the nyquist frequency) which should be removed with a low-pass filter. As they are outside the range of human hearing, some cheaper sound cards don't use any filters.

[TheRealLaugh99]

@tejeez this is confusing o.0

[skapista92]

@tejeez DAMNED, how tha FUCK did you generate that signal?

[MitchGCoast]

@Sulleric Can you teach me how to do this, please?

[malsentado]

Hello, good afternoon. Let me tell you connect this oscilloscope exactly as you describe. Years ago this type of work of the oscilloscope was used to display on the oscilloscope screen video signal extracted from inside a TV. HAMEG E used a 604 for performing the experiment that you've put into this video and allow it after the experiment tell you they are all liars.

[Wiltko]

А как эти эффекты просчитать на компе и вавку сделать?

[SeriyYoga]

Бешеные осциллографы захватят мир! xD

[Wiltko]

ЕЕЕ! Это ахуенно :)

[ImSheldan]

it was cool)))5+

[ritnerritner1]

where do i get one?

[Cooter3422]

Any "Mindprobe" tunes of this kind of thing?

"THC" would be great!!! :-)

[junhua90]

are you sure thie is do-able?

[ErichoTTA]

You can anything with computers, can't you?

[VetalSky]

cool guys))) 5+!!! how much generators you used?

[svtcontour]

I just tried this but for me, stuff was inverted. Not sure if its the sound card inverting or not. Inverted and mirrored. I wonder if i can take the audio into Audacity and invert them, save and play. I guess I'd have to try it.

[binary132]

maybe you should try switching your x and y ;)

[svtcontour]

That wont work because if you do that, then you're display will be on its side since you're changing the axis. My problem is that the axis are correct, but along the x-axis the image is inverted (like as though you're displaying it into a mirror) and vertically its inverted as well. Switching X and Y wouldnt fix this ;)

[jeh14]

Probably your sound card inverts its audio outputs; this is very common. To fix the display just reverse the polarity on each input. If your scope doesn't have controls for this you can do it with the connections: The "hot" audio lead would go to the scope's ground and the audio ground would go to the scope's "hot" input. Except that most scope inputs have common grounds... so use transformers to isolate them. Yes, the Audacity trick would work fine too.

[s23b]

easier way: turn your oscilloscope upside down :P

[svtcontour]

No way I'm doing that to my Tektronix :)

[tejeez]

even easier: turn yourself upside down?

At least it'll look better than with isolation transformers...

[kurokikazenootoko]

Simple answer - switch the picture by programming means :)

[binary132]

HOLY FACK.

[shawnphase]

far out man!

[syromgp]

what do i need to connect my soundcard with the oszilloskope?

[91120dark]

It's so amazing good job man!!!

[jimmybobson123]

it wud be cool 2 play geometry wars on an osiliscope

[jimmybobson123]

ive just noticed that the background on geometry wars is ment 2 look like on

[enginuitor]

I LOVE YOU

[Tomasu321]

How did you generate the sound file nessecary to produce this amazing demo? Love the consept, im going to try it tomorrow, hope it works :D Awesome movie

[tzaeru]

*Clap clap clap* Hail tejeez <3

[billhaley1868]

the flashlight makes it look like you broke into a hospital in the middle of the night and jacked with someone's EKG machine lol

[poolsuporter]

Holy mother of god that was one epic piece of waveform projecting.. Or something.

[maxmillion99]

kewl!

[samplesmasher]

that's awesome!

i can't believe my eyes.

will try it on my own osci... hope it can handle the signal

[caezun2007]

whats the song for this , i wan to dl it. thx

[PyroGuideToHappiness]

read the desc.

[liviu21pit]

f tare frate

[cstrife89]

A. Ma. Zing. [jaw drops to the floor]

[anycolouryoulike75]

Astonishing !!!

[manstahl]

one word : Respect !

[JPK1990]

He was 14 years old when he made this

[footinmouthindustrys]

lol and im 15

[pnonsense]

It works on my oscilloscope though it doesn't look that nice here. ;)

[polypolyman]

reminds me a bit of bb, the old aa (ascii art) test app...

[eldorado303]

hey its not bad

i was never much into coding but

thats cool. coding skills rule.

enjoy

[originaltonywilk]

I was kinda sceptical 'til I played the .flac to my 'scope (after spending ages setting it to the never-used-before X-Y mode)... was I surprised.

Windoze media player with the .wav was not as good as playing the .flac with WinAmp... the only downside on my machine was that both signals were inverted.

Excellent !

[Cacio90power]

AWESOME

[maxxsee]

Brilliant!!!!!

[flurng]

Waaaaay 2 cooool!!!!!!!!

[RaptorRammstein]

That must be virtual. How do you made it? That's impossible 8-O

[hrford]

Interfacing with a scope is easy enough but the graphics are awesome!

[notatypewriter]

Ran it on an old 3MHz XY monitor and my laptop's sound card; the traces between points were pretty visible and the lines were really noisy, but still... kick ass. Seeing it on an actual scope was awesome.

[TheMindOfPat]

Excellent work -- I've never wanted to understand math so much in my life. ;) Thanks for sharing the video and the .wav.

I think I speak for others here when I say I actually *would* enjoy seeing the messy quickly-finished source code. ;) Or at least a few relevant fragments....

I'd also love to hear which sound cards people use when they get it working. I must be one of the "lucky" ones with good filters on my crappy card.

[ajithboost]

is it real...............

[artfungames]

ill never look at a oscilloscope the same way again.

[lainlives]

oh nvrmind it is, omg i love you

[lainlives]

this is possibley the most amazing thing i ever seen, just to clear this up, its a normal oscilator in a dot like mode and nothing more right? and only using audio input to place the dots?

if so, then its more awsome than i initially thought

[ming57]

What I love about this is that it looks so amazing, and then you think "this is what television is". we see this every day, but only when someone takes time time to build it themselves do we truly appreciate it.

[elpax707]

hello I´m a student and y tried to play it in my school´s osciloscope and it worked, I would like to create a simple video like this one, could yo help me telling what program did you use for it or if there are any program to do it easily

[Capeau]

i think they coded it themselves ;)

[rbairos2]

Omg it works! I tried it on my very old hitachi v-212 that I just pulled out of my closet. Beheaded a crappy old set of ear buds and hooked it all up, playing the wave file through windows media player. Took about 10 minutes to put together! Great show!

[rbairos1]

Just for some background: About 5 years ago a painstaking programmed a PIC and 2 D/A converters to output about 5 characters of chunky text. I had no idea all I had to do was play a wave file instead!

[rbairos1]

For some reason my hundred dollar refurbished PC at home works exactly like the vid above, but the office machines blur and skew it badly.

[Mettwurst91]

HAHA sooooo GEIL!

[killbig]

牛逼！！！

[rawkeh]

I knew oscilloscopes were cool, but I never realised just *how* cool. Ace :)

[DreHectik]

I agree, oscilloscopes are very awesome...but this is not really a demonstration of an oscilloscope, it's more of creative video with an oscilloscope screen... I'm not totally sure how he did this...The real purpose of an oscilloscope is to visually represent the audio.

[jupiter1716]

He was playing 2 audio files at the same time. One with the "commands" for the oscilloscope (the FLAC or WAV file in the description), and one with some music for our human ears (the MP3 file).

[sOnarPL]

wonderfull

[coloradocard]

Wow,

Talk about making an old dog do new tricks. Wish our marketing department could make videos this cool! I will pass it around at work. Will be a big hit.

Thanks,

Mike

Agilent Technologies Oscilloscope R&D

Colorado Springs, CO

[gogolito]

has this tune been ever properly released?

[SteliosRulez]

Its all RLC stuff,.. but you didn't need to add effects.. oscilloscope is impresive by itself/

[footinmouthindustrys]

awesome!

[wybo2]

a television is based on a oscilloscope

[tejeez]

well, at least they were both based on CRT before LCDs, plasmas etc.

[bannedfromutopia]

the oscilloscope actually predates the CRT. Google it my friend. and cool video, added to my favorites

[sovietspyguy]

Still trying to make this work. Some of it is almost discernible but there is just too much gibberish! I'll play around with the connections a bit as well as my sound card settings.

From what I've gathered by your responses you have the channels AC coupled with the scope?

[tejeez]

It just doesn't work very well with most soundcards. I should have tested it on some other soundcards too...