DIY Oscilloscopes – List and Discussions
ThunderOwl Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:01 pm
Now, when I look at my bookmarks and materials I have collected to this topic, two things comes to mind. First – obviously, I am insane. But that’s okay, nothing new here. But second – hmm, lotsa work done collecting all that. So, I decided to share my findings, and encouragement from some authors and discussions participants helped, so that I am really doing it.
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Here I will maintain list of DIY scopes that I have found (and YOU will suggest) and considered interesting for one reason or another.
At first, I will post just list with, minimum (or none) descriptions. When I feel like it, I will add stuff, by editing and expanding original post.
Links to resources will be coded in groups. That, I imagine, will keep things a bit organized, and will help to reference to particular projects in upcoming discussions, if there will be any. For example, “I just tried S-03-(T) and it sucks enormously”. You got the idea.
GROUP CODES:
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S-xx “Simple”, projects that have some MCU and not much else, or some other very simple solution. I mean simple just hardware-wise, don’t ignore them. If some just one MCU has 4 internal ADCs working in tandem (“quandem”…? is that a word?), results might be pretty interesting.
M-xx “Medium”, usually it will be MCU(s) plus some external ADC(s), input buffers, etc, etc.
A-xx “Advanced”, those are where things got pretty serious, usually involving FPGAs and other esoteric magic.
N-xx “Not-Finished”, projects that looks very interesting, but are maybe not finished, maybe migrated to somewhere, maybe will come back, maybe we will find where is it now.
C-xx “Clones”, direct or semi-direct clones of commercial products. Copied, reverse engineered.
P-xx “Price”. Kind of DIY, but you can not really, well, DIY. Need to pay for something. I did want to name it “G” for “greed”… Still, there are some really interesting ones, and let’s hope we migrate them to “C”-category someday.
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NUMBERING
list numbers “xx” does NOT represent importance, coolness, bad-ass-ness, or anything, really. Just some number for reference. Except for “S-01”. But you will see why.
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SUFFIXES
(T) – tested by me. Not necessary in finished state, but somehow tested.
(RU) – source in russian language (i am latvian, but I also know russian and english).
(DE) – source in german.
(PL) – source in polish language.
(…) – maybe some other languages too.
For “T”-marked there usually will be link to some pics of my testing.
Okay, here we go:
=== LIST OF DIY OSCILLOSCOPE PROJECTS ===
), they are everywhere, originals and clones, cost almost nothing, but not very good either, usable to some 300kHz, so I read. There is slightly updated version DSO150, but it is not updated in main charasteristics, so it is in the same ballpark. I think it is interesting on its own, but not for DIY heavy experimentators like us