USB scope probe - request for comments and ideas
Multiple inputs are pretty important. If you could figure out how to use one probe to trigger the others there would be some good potential. A single probe useful but on a pretty limited basis.
I would certainly be interested in this. Particular things that would appeal to me:
- Isolation from PC and from other channels
- Multiple synchronised channels
- Polished cross-platform interface software
- Cheaper than the competition: the other self-contained units such as the handheld picoscopes.
I've used quite a few USB scopes, but the (single- and dual-channel) picoscopes trump the rest simply on the software at the moment.
To be honest, personally I'm not that bothered by the self-contained thing or the unpowered hub thing. If I could find some good, cost-effective, multi-channel USB scopes that worked on any platform, had good software, reasonable specs and isolation between the channels, I'd be over the moon.
You might also be interested in: Digital Oscilloscope at fpga4fun.