DPScope - Build Your Own USB/PC-Based Oscilloscope

Step 11 Assembly - Tools

While the kit that is robust and simple to assemble, there are some components that are sensitive to mishandling, e.g. putting them in with wrong polarity, so please pay close attention to the description for every step. Moderate soldering experience is required (If you have never soldered before, there are many good introductions to be found on the web, and you should probably practice a little bit before attemption to put together a larger circuit like the DPScope).

You will need a few tools for the assembly:

 

 

- Small soldering iron (about 17 Watts power) with sufficiently fine tip

- Solder wire

- Flat-nosed pliers (to bend component leads)

- Small wire cutter (to cut off component legs)

- 14mm wrench (to fasten the BNC connectors to the front panel)

- Small Philips screwdriver (to adjust the trimmer resistors and for the enclosure

- Small non-metal screwdriver (to adjust the trimmer capacitors)

 

The time required for putting the scope together will depend on your experience – a seasoned hobbyist should be able to do it in maybe two hours (I do it in 45 minutes but of course I know the component locations by heart now), but if you are new to this it will take longer.