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   Tom Del Rosso to 698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org   
   Re: DC cable puzzle   
   25 Aug 18 09:31:59   
   
   XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com   
      
   698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org wrote:   
   > Tom Del Rosso wrote:   
   >> John Larkin wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if   
   >>> we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and   
   >>> transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.   
   >>   
   >> I've often thought of that.  You'd need eyes bigger than Zoey   
   >> Daschanel and Irene Bordoni combined.   
   >>   
   >> You know that famous chaotic function that can be modelled with a   
   >> circuit of 2 multipliers and fed into a scope in XY mode to produce a   
   >> pair of spirals?  There's a complete circuit on Paul Horowitz's   
   >> website. I might have made one for fun if the multipliers weren't   
   >> $20 each.   
   >>   
   >> Well, it would also be neat to put one in the cabinet under that old   
   >> scope in your lobby.   
   >   
   > You can display anything you want on a XYZ scope:   
   > http://panteltje.com/panteltje/scope_tv/index.html   
   > with just a few transistors, even TV.   
      
   That's great but for an old scope on display it might be more   
   appropriate to have a presentation that is more vector and less raster.   
      
   Of course you don't want to burn it in so have it come on when a motion   
   sensor detects someone.   
      
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