First Oscilloscope...

skumdog

Hello, I am new to this forum so I would like to introduce myself, and explain a little bit about my particular situation. My name is Skumdog and I live in Florida. It is the southernmost state on America's east coast. I have been playing with electronics for about 5 years and have finally decided to get myself an oscilloscope. I have never owned one, and have settled on getting the DS213. My question is, is this a good scope for a beginner? Is this going to survive kids using it, aka How's the build quality? Is anyone one working on any applications or anything for the device, seeing as it is open source. If so, can someone point me in the general direction? Thanks, I am hoping this forum proves to be useful.

minidso

The performance of DS213 is low than that of large desktop oscilloscope.
But it's cheap, portable, and 15M bandwidth meets some people's needs.
Official firmware meets most of the requirements, and open source systems allow you to modify the firmware yourself (if you have the ability, and this can help you learn STM32 programming).

skumdog

After this latest update, 1.27. Wow is this thing faster and more smooth feeling. It still has its issues here and there with freezing. Especially when changing test points. I have tried 4 different test leads, two being brand new, and they all caused the unit to freeze. I was measuring a 3 volt triangle waveform at 12 Hz - 1.13MHz. All I had to do was restart the device but I still found it odd.