any cheap and good handheld or pc scope

Dec 30, 2003 6 Replies

as subject. i want to buy one for my robot project.


I'm sorry, did you just say "cheap" and "handheld" in the same sentence?

Velleman makes a couple of decent ones.

A fast A/D and scope program cartridge for my old Handspring would approach this, and be pretty useful I think. Digital sampling scope, spectrum analyzer, and DMM in one small package.

Maybe someone can do it with CompactFlash and I'll have an excuse to buy a new PDA. Maybe this is my million-dollar idea that I shouldn't be talking about.

Well, no.

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item down. Though the price is a tad over what I was thinking, they do have a Springboard module.

As always, some university kids have contributed their effort as well:

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Just a tad? At that price you can almost buy a real scope.

Two reasonably cheap PC based usb scopes I've found are the Easyscope

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and the Optascope
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I bought the Easyscope and haven't had too many complaints. One thing I regret is buying the probes from the same retailer.

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Second item down. Though the price is a tad over what I was thinking, they

I like this one. It's very bandwidth limited but for general purpose timings and signals it works well and is free.

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-Dave

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Second item down. Though the price is a tad over what I was thinking, they

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logic analyser xilinx cpld app notes 359 and 368

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bus analyser
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there was a addon kit for springboards for cplds from insight don't know if they still sell it.

others that may be of interest

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Alex

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