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2021-11-05 12:29 am
I know you can buy a C$15 signal generator DIY kit that uses an XR2206 IC, but why aren't signal/function/wave generators more readily available? I think you can still buy the XR2206 but it's quite expensive.
I think it would be a fun leatning project to program a microcontroller with an IC, some buttons/potentiometers/switches and a small LCD.
2021-11-05 2:07 am
What would the practical use be of something like that. I vaguely remember using a 'signal generator' in high school about 1960 or so, but can't remember why.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's & MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
My personal scorecard is now 1 PC hardware fix (circa 1982), 1 open source fix (at age 82), and 2 zero day bugs in a major OS.
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2021-11-05 2:12 am
I'm playing around with op amps and I need a sine wave generator. So it would be a fun little project, resulting in a little test tool.