Thursday, April 29, 2010

#34. Oscilloscope Dismantling

Backdated Thursday.

This is a modern-day oscilloscope:

[No, it's not a fish finder.]

This is what they used to look like:

[Also not a fish finder.]

Guess which one I decided to disassemble?

I have an addiction to taking apart technology, especially technology that looks particularly difficult to move/disassemble/look at for long periods of time. It's partly being an engineering student, but also because I find it fun to sit in the sun and unscrew bolts. Don't ask what's wrong with me. There are enough Chinese kids in sweatshops as it is, it may be genetic.

So I ended up dismantling the entire thing. The end result was something like this:

[Might be a fish finder.]

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