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I can recommend this gizmo for people just starting to learn about electronics. I got one in Hackerbox 102[1] and found it to be a good value in terms of bandwi
by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I can recommend this gizmo for people just starting to learn about electronics. I got one in Hackerbox 102[1] and found it to be a good value in terms of bandwidth vs cost.
In talking about it to my engineering friends I got the somewhat expected dismissive "well its just a toy" kinds of comments, and to be clear it has a lot of limitations, but within those limitations it also has a lot of opportunity to teach people about things like analog electronics which are best learned by looking at the signals. And given that so many people starting out don't even know why they might need an oscilloscope, its a pretty good way to introduce the tool without the huge learning curve of features you may not use for the first year of your learning process :-).
And then when it comes time to pick one of the many really excellent choices of bench tools, you won't be completely clueless about what the functions of the oscilloscope do. So for $20 I consider it a good value and have recommended it to people who were just starting to learn about these things.
[1] https://hackerboxes.com/collections/past-hackerboxes/products/hackerbox-0102-flea-scope https://hackerboxes.com/collections/past-hackerboxes/product... and the experiment guide https://www.instructables.com/HackerBox-0102-Flea-Scope/ https://www.instructables.com/HackerBox-0102-Flea-Scope/