A free desktop oscilloscope.

Vincent Perrier 2020

Any hardware hobbyist knows the troubleshooting potential of an oscilloscope. They're essential to any hardware project that requires more than a few LEDs. Unfortunately, these absolute units of diagnostic tools can be quite costly. An oscilloscope works by reading a bunch of samples with an Analog to Digital converter (ADC), then, displays them on a screen with different zoom options.

Modern day hardware is amazingly fast. Even a tiny raspberry pi is able to do billions of calculations per second, run a graphical interface and playback audio. With many features such as these, doing basic arithmetics and graphing a few hundred samples should not be an insurmountable task.

Consider looking at the user guide for more informations on how to run the software.

At the current time:

• a user can choose which serial port to take the data from.
• the application displays the samples fed in via serial port.
• the user can enhance details with a Y scaling slider.

The project depends on the Java standard library and the swing suite of components. For the first version of the project, serial operations are done with the jSerialComm library.