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Test equipment goes YouTube
May 16, 2008
I recently came across a test equipment manufacturer whose web site contains embedded YouTube videos. ATE maker SPEA has YouTube videos on the page for its Model 3030 Bed-of-Nails Test System. Thatgot me thinking that YouTube must have plenty of videos about electronic test equipment. Of course, it does.
My search began with “oscilloscope.” Sure enough, I found professionally produced promotional and training videos, but I also found many videos produced by individuals covering oscilloscope basics. Many of the home-made videos uses ancient analog oscilloscopes.
Then I hit gold: games. In 2003, I wrote an article called “Hidden treasures,” which included a sidebar about games embedded in HP/Agilent oscilloscopes. In that sidebar, Agilent admitted why the Model 16700 logic analyzer contains a copy of “Doom.” Now, I had also heard that some oscilloscopes contained a version of Tetris, but Agilent wouldn’t confirm nor deny that. Well now you can see that the 54600B does in fact have Tetris embedded inside.
Other searches for test-and-measurement equipment will turn up all kinds of videos. For example, you can see a wireless data-acquisition system inside a football When you search for “data acquisition.” Here, a student used an accelerometer to record the forces on a football in flight.
Posted by Martin Rowe on May 16, 2008 | Comments (2)
