{"id":16095,"date":"2016-12-14T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16095"},"modified":"2016-12-14T14:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T13:10:19","slug":"an-oscilloscope-and-function-generator-created-using-a-raspberry-pi-and-a-pic32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16095","title":{"rendered":"An oscilloscope and function generator created using a Raspberry Pi and a PIC32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/people.ece.cornell.edu\/land\/courses\/ece4760\/FinalProjects\/f2016\/ak634_jmw483_dm797\/ak634_jmw483_dm797\/ak634_jmw483_dm797\/images\/PICPiImage.jpg?resize=560%2C747\" width=\"560\" height=\"747\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Advitya Khanna, Jeff Witz and Danna Ma teamed up for their final year project on a Cornell University course, <em>Designing with Microcontrollers<\/em>. They have created a\u00a0combination digital oscilloscope and function generator that runs an interface on a Raspberry Pi and takes readings and generates functions via a PIC32 chip over the SPI bus. This is a great example of technology being used to do what it&#8217;s good at: the Pi does the front-end stuff, whilst the real-time capabilities of the PIC are utilised for readings.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/people.ece.cornell.edu\/land\/courses\/ece4760\/FinalProjects\/f2016\/ak634_jmw483_dm797\/ak634_jmw483_dm797\/ak634_jmw483_dm797\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">read their final project documentation here<\/a> and see a video of it being demonstrated below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PIC PI scope\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RhydIMA4xgQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advitya Khanna, Jeff Witz and Danna Ma teamed up for their final year project on a Cornell University course, Designing with Microcontrollers. 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