Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscope Giveaway

Looking at making a car OBD2 port reader.

Switching power supplies are beginning to fail in epic proportions.  I would like to design a few
simple tools to help diagnose these types of units.  Electrolytic capacitors commonly fail which is
an easy fix but many have more challenging problems that need to be addressed.

Designing a cool shaped Arduino shield with onboard sensors, leds, motors, and the Atmega328P for standalone applications. This project is geared toward kids K-4th in STEM programs & makers of all ages.

Game on atmel

Mostly building IOT sensors for home automation.

working on metal detector.

open up the CAN bus for the recreation boats,
create develop and design equipment for (sailing) yachts

Help visualize signals (like IR)  for my makerspace students as they say a picture is worth a thousand words - especially since most of my students 10-16 yrs old.

I gavé a project for home thermostat that auto a juste hits self acording to température out side, Aldo world love to cet in To robotisé. I thon huis oscilloscope world ne a réal game changer for me

More topics from basic RF to application specifics.

A parameter measurement recorder for a bicycle

Making a GPS measuring system.

developing a personal security and health System based on smart watches / health detectors

Helping Engineers and Technicians and others at AAC do embedded designs on multiple applications.
IOT, Consumer, Industrial, Largely based on Mixed Signal processors (PSOC) and low end Atmel. In
need of a better state of the art Oscilloscope to present solutions and understanding of design options
and recommendations. FFT performance key along with advanced triggering.

Looking forward to designing a curve tracer for vacuum tubes.

I currently have a very old analog scope at home. It’s a Leader LBO-505 analog 15 MHz dual channel scope that is really on it last legs. I really need a newer digital scope .

Right now, I am still puzzled with a signal propagation which appears going faster than what it should. Maybe the extra two channels of that scope could help a bit, … or 10 bits.

Adaptive toys/devices for my special needs daughter such as location monitoring or door alarms. Network of small AI enabled cameras to monitor farm perimeter for predators/intruders.

I have the same issue as Burt L. Many of the switching power supplies we use are failing under circumstances they shouldn’t. The ability test the subsection of these units would be great.

An all in one controller / interface for combining, CNC routing +  Laser cutting engraving + 3D Printing, my design will allow makers to easily access and control several CNC platforms in their maker hobby shop.

Implement a modern equivalent of legacy hardware systems using a combination of FPGAs, uControllers and other modern peripheral parts.

Checking my ham radio equipment for spurious emissions.

Creating a comprehensive, mobile, pocket-sized, frequency logging tool. Ideally this device will cover audio up to but not including radar.

My prototype IMU for general aviation is designed to detect an incipient stall/spin condition using low cost automotive grade sensors. Considerable lab/flight testing is required to avoid the undesired responses of these components. This project uses a different approach from others which have the same goal in order to minimize cost. This is a high priority within the aviation community; too many lives are still being lost due to accidents of this nature.

Multicell battery balancer that charges cell-by-cell

Working on a remote device to monitor V & I on mobile solar systems.

During my spare time as electronics hobbyists, Maker, Enthusiasts to study and work on repairs electronics. I’m deaf and retired from HVAC as well as sheet metal worker union. I have two older oscilloscope Tektronix 2235 100Mhz and HP.  Other test meters I build from kits. I’m not an engineer of any kind. However, I’ll need a better oscilloscope to help me better understand of digital than comparing of analog during testing. I also enjoyed watching and educational from EEVBLOG from YouTube as well few others that do electronics. So I’m looking forward any ideas to build electronics. Like the one to build flashing LED lights security for deaf and hearing impaired. I also enjoyed All About Circuits to studies all kind of work.

I developed an WiFi thermostat used by a VFC (vertical fan coil) builder in Toronto.
My next step is to make a remote for it. In Canada, most thermostat are installed on the main floor. The upper level rooms or the basement are hot or cold. My goal is to make a remote with color screen and take it with me in the bedroom when i go to sleep. In this way, the room temperature will be as i wish. When i come back to main room, the control go back to main thermostat, but if i move out from the room, the control is the remote thermostat.

Working on a self-sustaining oscillator.

Applying the home automation paradigm to my amateur radio hobby.

Solar Panels come in all sizes and shapes. I wish to create a simple DC to DC converter using high frequency that does not have to be tuned for input voltage. The converter would output even in weak Sun.  Efficiency would need to be high as 95%+ and the size would be easily incorporated in small solar projects.  The oscilloscope would help me tune the switching of the mosfets.

Currently working on building DC-DC switching voltage regulators and, as a side project, a 1/8 scale RC version of a car that I’ve been designing on and off for 30+ years.  Designing and 3D printing various enclosures for my projects because if my prototypes are boring at least they should look good.  As such, building a better 3D printer is in the back of my mind.

Development of IoT meteorology sensor network with connectivity via town wide LoRa network.

My two grandsons are both interested in electronics and I do what I can to assist them,  Their even designing and building simple circuit boards mostly with discrete components. They will be entering high school next year and plan to become Electronics Engineers. They want to go into space and travel to other galaxies, I tell them they can do anything they set their minds to. They make me proud. They could use an Oscope

Developing and building new sensors for 3D Printers, CNC, etc.

Working on teaching myself more about component level electronics so I can do my part to keep equipment out of landfills. I just can’t afford an oscilloscope!

I’d like to use it as a tool to learn more about electrical engineering in general. I am a student in the electrical engineering program at my university and realize how helpful it can be to have an oscilloscope in a lab setting.

Microcontroller applications, mostly replacing control systems in failed consumer electronics, such as electric smokers, dishwashers, washing machines, etc. in order to avoid continuously replacing expensive replacement boards, which are destined to fail again anyway.

What a great thing…Im falling in love with oscis..

Designing a smart auto battery monitor.

Improvement on stealth & cloaking in are military. Drones no humans on battlefields. Space traveling.

robust navigation utilizing e-Loran technology

I am designing drones and other rc toys.also gold mining equipment WITH SECURITY systems for mine site. Need to figure out power controls and power banks.

Designing a capacitive touch sensor that can work through at least 5mm of glass.

Developing remote IoT sensors that will based on mesh networks via WIFi and cellular end points.

Design and build a motion tracking sensor system for racket based and similar sports using 6 axis sensors (accelerometers and possibly gyros.

RF communication

Reading “old tech” engine instrumentation signals on my sailboat, reverse engineering them, and converting them to modern “open” digital data structures.

Reading “old tech” engine instrumentation signals on my sailboat, reverse engineering them, and converting them to modern “open” digital data structures.

Play and learn more precisely, (saving a lot of time) finding viable low power charging scenarios for personal devices.

to develop a system that helps with the response linearization of a loudspeaker regardless of the speakers used inside or the speaker box characteristics.

I want free stuff. I buy usually the cheapest tools that get what I need done. This scope is way overkill, but would look sexy as hell on my workbench. Definitely a bench diva in my shop.

I’m a novice just getting into electronics. I would us this gift to help rebuild vintage stereo amplifiers and receivers. This would help me identify clipping and whether substituted parts behave correctly in the system. Thanks.

Design/Build an updated Optacon reader for blind people

Design and build an updated Optacon reader for the blind

I’m just a student - Basic Electronics online course. As I am a musician, my goal is to get into building and repairing guitars, amplifiers and PA equipment. Most of the ideas I read here are WAAAYYY over my head - but also unnecessary for what I want to do. So, I really don’t know what I would use the oscilloscope for. But, 6 lessons from now, I will find out.

Develop tools to teach in a much better way the fundamentals of antenna modeling, Smith Chart modeling plus high frequency propagation predictions to reach a wider audience of electronic enthusiasts.

Rule the world

I an working on a metal détacher for underwater use. Aldo have a projet of a ROV.

Designing test equipment and ham radios.

Failure to prepare you is your failure.

Building 3D printed wideband 2Ghz - 40 Ghz Horn Antennas and I need to analyse the signal frequency to see how my design, surface smoothing, and conductive coatings are doing. I am doing this to make a low cost but effective product, and the proceeds are going to help me retire from being a paramedic, and go to medicals school. I have the Printer (FlashForge Adventurer 3; MG chemicals silver paint; and solvents. I just need to build a chamber and have access to an R&S RTB2000 Oscilloscope to help me do this. Nothing would be more beneficial for me right now. Fingers Crossed!

measuring timing of pulses on spot welder using old tek 465 on last leg..would be great to have digital scope to make life much easier 😊 Learning to use digital scope would be welcome experience.

Creating open source test systems

I tried to make an oscilloscope but i cant finish it so this can be mine

Would be nice to replace my old oscilloscope so i can better test and see Defibrilator pacer pulses so i can more accurately measure current of an impulse and pulse rate 😛

To properly explore Stanley Meyers’ water burning engine techniques, which use FREQENCY to vibrate the Oxygen and Hydrogen atoms apart, a very detailed oscilloscope output is needed.

I require a more versatile scope than my old analog unit to revive my enthusiasm in time to take full advantage of all that wonderful new digital microcontroller board cornucopia offered out there.  No more stockpiling, let me start using!  First, a good Gamma radiation based random number generator…  Then some RF encription development…

Smart panels… solar panels that are self contained and self controlled…

I got into electronics in the late 80’s. So much has changed but is w

I have been into electronics since the late 80’s. Combining new battery technology and
efficient solar charging arrays with IOT automation would be a benefit to mankind. I would like to work towards a self-sustaining automated greenhouse at almost every step from germination to harvest.

1) Implement a system using sensors to track animals pooping in my lawn, notify me when the animal is in the yard.  Record a history of animal movement entering/leaving the yard.  2) Work with FIRST Robotics FRC teams during build season to check the sensors and what the software is really doing to the hardware.

diagnosing CubeSat power distribution system issues

No way to enter address for poster?

A Robust Robot Security System for private property!

Auto’s since 1990, Ford first, working with CARB, developed On-Board-Diagnostics that has bloomed into OBD-2. With UART in cavity #1 if used, Class 2 in cavity #2 and high speed on cavities 14 & 6. Teaching and sharing with working techs to be comfortable with this kind of equipment and what they own as well, show them what they are seeing and how to use it to find the root cause of problems. Those how wish to learn ask good questions and makes me a better instructor but rising to the occasion to answer and pass this procedure and information they can find is very rewarding. It’s passing your knowledge to others that can go into the world and be better at what they do. Growing the base and numbers of techs is completing and continuing the craft. What can more rewarding than that…when you hear techs say, I never thought of that! Thanks.

I would have loved to have had this when creating an NTSC black and white video generator. I could get even fields or odd fields working well, but I got bad flickering when combining them. It was all had coded assembly for an ATTINY85.

Right now, I would use it for debugging high speed hall effect circuits.

A home security system that uses standard wired and wireless sensors (i.e. Interlogix @ 319.5MHz) and a distributed set of panels that provide simple door chime and 16x2 LCD information using only wireless. (I actually have this al prototyped at this point)  I just need to create a nice looking enclosure.

Then I’m creating my software to learn patterns (basic AI) and automate the alerting (or not alerting).

If I won, I would learn more about guitar pedals and use that knowledge to help create my own.

Building my own circuits for teaching local kids.

Always wanted one for RF testing in my lab.

Title: Smart Laboratory Device.
Importance of Oscilloscope: Oscilloscope is a device used commonly to display and analysis the waveforms of a electrical signal as a function of time. In Signal generator, Filters, Oscillators, Communication signals, PWM, RADAR signal the waveforms characteristics the input and output signals. The waveforms are useful to identify the exactness of the circuitory. A high precision data logging sense the designed circuit importance,  as in many cases exact signal for transmission or receive are analysis for noise detection.

Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscope as laboratory device: A smart oscilloscope will be more suitable for the students laboratories, Engineers workstation to analyse the signals with an ease. Rohde & Schwarz RTB 2000 oscilloscope seems to be smart in its functionality with its “Power of Ten” features. 

RTB 2000 Importance over existing Digital Oscilloscope:
Sometimes it is difficult to project exact signal on display with its tuning knobs when the signal is complex. If the screen is touch sense like Smartphone screen it can Zoom the signal to a particular point of interest. RTB 2000 has 10 bit ADC to precisely trace the signal and record the signal in 10M sample and save in memory. This oscilloscope has USB connectivity to interface to laptop or PC to monitor in GUI software to record the data and visualisation for future analysis.

Project outcome:
In my opinion RTB 2000 can be useful for students laboratory experiments to traceout the signal waveforms in RC oscillator, Active Filters, Hysteresis loop for magnetic materials, lissajous figures, 555 timer duty cycles, Amplitude modulated signals, PWM, Spectrum, impulse of signals in communications, etc. It will be the best oscilloscope for the college students to learn effectively by signal tracing with advanced tools and software instruments like RTB 2000.

Project Conclusion:
I hope this Oscilloscope is useful for college students in their laboratory, in design workstations for engineers, at repairs and maintenance for technicians, signal processing room for researchers in laboratories.

If I am the winner of this giveaway contest I would like to showcase importance of RTB 2000 in complex signal to noise detection in my communication laboratory. The touch display gives the exact zooming of the signal to a specific features helps in understanding the lab e1xperiments effectively.

Investigating signal integrity in conduit communication for carbon dioxide sequestration applications in sedimentary basins with hostile environments

so, who won?

I am working on an automated system of pH and moisture sensors for a large greenhouse.  These sensors, once built, installed and networked, will provide data from each planter twice per day.

wireless sensors for automation, smart home ant IoT

Looking to build a a universal OBD2 programmer for all vehicles 1996-up

Ah, a chance to elaborate on my idea above.

The process of carbon dioxide injection in sedimentary rock is made difficult by corruption of signals between sensors downhole (a couple of miles or so) and monitoring equipment at surface. Some sources of problems are different physical conditions and stress regimes of the rock at depths and interaction between pipe (transport conduit) and transported fluid. Solutions might be found in superior selection of hardware; conduit surface coatings—-inside and out—-; customization of fluid additives regarding chemistry, surface energies, conductance, nanoparticle composition and effect on carbon dioxide’s tendency toward a phase (solid, gas) in the pipe as well as in the rock; better control of transient states of mechanical equipment; improved selection of hardware and better control and so many other factors.

I could use an improvement over my old beat up flea market Tek210 when playing with models—-I might be able to afford something if I quit my coffee addiction, but then I wouldn’t get much done and so wouldn’t need one now would I?—-but the real benefit to posting here is that you bunch of genius nerds will have my babblings rolling around in the back of your heads. Maybe we’ll all get rich together. Maybe we’ll do some good for the world.

this oscilloscope will help me to build a space ship with which i will find planets similar to the earth

Am I understanding correctly that the mixed signal functions are an option one must add? If so does anyone know how that works?