"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
My experimentation with oscilloscope displays made me wonder what the oscilloscope clock by Sparkfun/Dutchtronix used. It turns out to be a $5 dual parallel input DAC from Analog Devices, even available as a 20 pin PDIP. It can apparently do 833K samples per second, making it quite a bit faster than a conventional sound card like I was using. Archived for future playing.
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