CartBelow are details of some of the many applications for Pico data logger, and oscilloscope products.
Please contact us if you have an interesting application you would like to share with others.
Oscilloscopes / Spectrum Analyzers
- What to look for when choosing an oscilloscope
(Also available in French and Swedish) - How to tune x10 oscilloscope probes
- Find glitches faster with PicoScope
- Analysing mains power with PicoScope
- Audio spectrum analysis: Introduction and testing a CD player
- Audio spectrum analysis: Testing power amplifiers
- Audio amplifier design utilising spectrum analysis
- Loudspeaker testing using the ADC-216
- Measurement of acoustic reverberation time
- Video signals captured using the ADC-200
- High–resolution oscilloscopes
Temperature / Environmental Monitoring
- Measuring the mechanical properties of wood
- Measuring the performance of a wind turbine
- Espresso coffee grinder testing
- Stratospheric Temperature Experiment with Phase Change Material
- Using EnviroMon to improve the quality of concrete products
- Improving the Accuracy of Temperature Measurements
- Advice on choosing and using thermocouples
- Advice on choosing and using PT100 sensors
- Monitoring energy efficiency in the home
- Environmental monitoring at the Olympics
- Monitoring temperatures in the food industry
- Global Warming (science experiment)
- Monitoring temperature and air quality in an hospital
- Measuring temperature and humidity in a clean room
Remote data acquisition / data logging
Whether you want to measure your signals from across the room, or across the world these articles should help.
- Using the Belkin Network USB Hub with PicoScope
- pH measurements — record four different pH measurements simultaneously
- DrDAQ and SysManSMS — sending SMS text alerts for remote environment control
- Dynamic web pages — publishing live EnviroMon data on the web
- Data acquisition over the net — first published in ‘test’ magazine
- A step by step guide to remote data logging using IP networking using multiple PCs connected via a network
- A step by step guide to remote data logging across a network using Ethernet to serial port adaptors
- Remote data logging using EnviroMon choose from using radio, telephone or GSM (mobile phone) modems
Other Interesting Applications
- Have a Heart — measuring heart beats using an ADC-100 * NEW *
- Gas Turbines — using PicoLog to monitor gas turbine engines
- Acquiring ultrasonic echoes with the ADC212/100
- Electrocardiogram (ECG) project for Pico oscilloscopes — how to construct your own ECG machine
- Hillview Animal Sanctuary — shows the use of EnviroMon in an animal welfare application
- Colossus — we connect one of our scopes to the world’s first computer
- Battery discharge monitoring using PicoLog and the ADC16
- Using an ADC-200 to study bird migration using radar pulses
- Using an ADC-16 with a Palm Pilot
- Dynamic Range and Frequency measurements of radar receivers using the ADC-11
- PWM Drivers and DC Motors
- Experiment to view T1 clock recovery
Science Experiments
A small selection of our science experiments.
(View our library of science experiments to see the full collection.)
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