[S-ol] wrote in to share his sweet breakout game played on an oscilloscope ... The software controls the audio out channels and uses sound to control the game graphics. He also made use of ...

A microphone connected to an oscilloscope picks up the sound from a siren. The trace produced on the oscilloscope screen is shown below.

If you could only own one piece of test equipment, it should probably be an oscilloscope. Then again, modern scopes often have multiple functions, so maybe that’s not a fair assertion.

To determine peak voltage from an oscilloscope trace, the maximum vertical deviation of the trace from the centre line is measured from the screen. This number of divisions is multiplied by the Y ...