--- title: "March is Oscilloscope Month — and at Tim Scale!" url: https://daily.dev/posts/march-is-oscilloscope-month-and-at-tim-scale--ksgjqsjx8 source_url: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/540.php type: article source: "EmbeddedRelated" published: 2026-05-31T07:48:37.803Z updated: 2026-05-31T09:30:21.292Z tags: ["python", "embedded"] reading_time: 10 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # March is Oscilloscope Month — and at Tim Scale! **[EmbeddedRelated](https://daily.dev/sources/embeddedrelated)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on account of receiving an Agilent MSOX3034A oscilloscope and the first-day setup steps. Covers probe compensation — why 10x probes need capacitive matching and how to use the scope's built-in calibration square wave to tune the variable capacitor. Also walks through connecting the MSOX3000 to Python via pyvisa and SCPI commands, including setting time scale programmatically and decoding raw waveform data for CSV export. Notes that Agilent's own Python sample code exists but is poorly written, and calls for a higher-level Python library for these scopes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [An Oscilloscope The Way They Used To Be](https://daily.dev/posts/an-oscilloscope-the-way-they-used-to-be-5lptdt3yk) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [A Higher-End Pico-Based Oscilloscope](https://daily.dev/posts/a-higher-end-pico-based-oscilloscope-8fxpt5au1) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#embedded](https://daily.dev/tags/embedded) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/march-is-oscilloscope-month-and-at-tim-scale--ksgjqsjx8)