Can this be modded into anything useful, or fun?

Question

This is a medical device, but is sort of like an o-scope.
follow this link for photos:
http://home.maine.rr.com/ejstuff/Oscope.htm

I know I have posted about this already, but I closed that one too soon by accident. I didn’t know how YA worked.

lots of spare cabinet space.
some sort of funky printer (for paper traces).
its like a mini CRT that burns onto some kind of thermal paper I think.

Answer 1

Well, if you have control of the x/y position of the trace, you can interface a microcontroller to it with two DACs, and then program the controller to draw stuff on the screen. Personally, I'd go with a pair of DACs controlled by a PC so I wouldn't have to mess with programming a microcontroller, and it would be easier to add functionality.

For example, you could write routines to draw each of the 26 characters of the alphabet on the O-scope screen. Then, you'd write a program that takes an input string and sends each character to the screen, so you'd have a mini-billboard or something.

As for the printer, who knows? It's always fun to have a strip chart recorder to monitor things for a long time, like ground voltage for 48 hours or something.

Answer 2

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