Cheap $20 Oscilloscope

OK this just went on the list of things to do.  The author took a $15 USB sound card, some resistors, wire, and jacks, and made a simple Oscilloscope out of it.  I have seen folks do this with other soundcards in the past, but not this way (with USB cheapy).  And I have seen the arduino way to, but I like this one since you can get a feed into a PC to record and perhaps grow this into a logic analyzer.

http://www.instructables.com/id/USB-Oscilloscope-with-Signal-generator/

Update, I did a quick search on ebay and found similar cards for under $5.

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