PicoScope celebrates a library of 15,000 vehicle waveforms
Phil Rutt shows how technicians can search and contribute diagnostic captures as Pico Automotive Diagnostics adds about 5,000 subscribers in a day.
Why this story? The channel is adding 5,002 subscribers a day, 12 times a normal day (416).
Pico Automotive Diagnostics has had an unusually busy day for new subscribers, adding about 5,000, roughly twelve times its usual daily pace. Alongside the engine-testing lessons, its recent uploads include a quieter milestone: a shared library built from diagnostic captures.
In "15,000 Waveforms in the PicoScope Waveform Library! 🎉 #PicoScope," Phil Rutt explains how users can search the collection, download waveforms and contribute their own. The library has passed 15,000 entries, according to the video's description. For technicians investigating a fault, reference captures offer something to compare with the signals coming from the vehicle in front of them.
That connects neatly with Rutt's cam-and-crank demonstration, where he compares signal timing against reference data to investigate possible mechanical timing problems. The library video turns the attention from taking a measurement to sharing one.
These are Pico's own product demonstrations and training videos. The library walkthrough has a much smaller audience than the compression and cam-and-crank lessons, so it should not be mistaken for the explanation behind the subscriber jump. Its useful detail is the invitation to contribute: users can add their captures to the same collection they consult.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Pico Automotive Diagnostics
- Subscribers
- 327,000 ▲ 12,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,005,802
- Channel views, pace per day
- 100,671 (on a normal day: 84,677)
The numbers
Subscriber additions rose much more sharply than daily views, which were only modestly above their usual pace.
💡 Test your knowledge
What does Phil Rutt show users how to contribute to the PicoScope library?
The library walkthrough shows users how to search, download and contribute waveform captures.



