Comment on Oscilloscope Watch Ships After 10 Years on Kickstarter

burrito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You just want to play Doom on it. We know.

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  • Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You read my mind. That was my first question. Microcontroller? C? Ok yeah it can run doom for sure. But e ink? It’d look terrible…

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is one of those things that seems like it has a high gadget desirability potential on the surface, but I really can’t see replacing my existing perfectly functional (and probably significantly more durable) smartwatch with this. I already have one of those credit card sized pocket oscilloscopes. I can’t see any need for a device more portable than that. Even for the purposes of just showing off to your nerd friends, you’d only ever really be able to do that once per nerd, and then what?

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I already have one of those credit card sized pocket oscilloscopes.

    Why have I never heard of this

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bam.

      To be fair, it’s bigger than a credit card. But you get the idea.

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      • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do you have any rationalizations I could use for buying this when I rarely even use a multimeter?

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    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Theyre kind of trash, I rocked one for a while in my gear bag, used it a handful of times, mostly as a simple volt probe or “the signal is moving”.

      And my irl job is chip/board bringup so I’m the best use case.

      The portable hantek ones though, I swear by them, they do everything and you can plug them in to usb and run them on Linux.

      The credit card ones have shit probes and are just barely worth it, especially since I mostly work at higher frequencies, I wouldn’t trust it past audio and I wouldn’t trust the precision much around that.

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  • jettrscga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If this was kickstarted 10 years ago, Smartwatches weren’t nearly as prevalent back then.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m quite certain I was rocking an OG Pebble smartwatch in 2013. In fact, the Pebble’s low power usage screen was probably the inspiration for the screen on this thing.

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