Comment on Oscilloscope Watch Ships After 10 Years on Kickstarter

• 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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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, you can hook it up to just about anything that generates any kind of signal source and use it as a decoration. Just, like, plug it in across your computer’s speaker outputs or something and you’ll have an instant visualizer, for instance. Or even a household outlet, and you can see just how close to 60hz your mains power actually is on a second-by-second basis. I know plenty of people who have retro tube oscilloscopes kicking around above their computer desks purely for the mad scientist vibe, and this will be a lot cheaper than one of those…

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re cool, I used it as a volt probe a handful of times, or to check if a signal was moving (like, is the uart coming up at all).

    I do chip/board bringup, it’s a niche as hell usecase, I only used it if I didn’t have a rigol around.

    Later bought a portable hantek, it’s basically a star trek tricorder, utterly amazing.

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