It may be able to help with certain things. I for sure would not use it to replace mine by saleae. The DIY version you mention has a max of under 4K of samples and I believe a max of 5mhz. The speed is fast enough for several different things and if you can setup your triggers properly you may be able to capture what you are looking for. But even at it’s lowest speed, I think it can only capture up to maybe a second of data…
I most often use mine in a very lazy way. I simply startup and know that I can capture easily capture 10-15 seconds or more. Example Mine is set for 4mhz and 50M samples. I used that yesterday to find out that my new C library code for HSERVOSTATE was corrupting the servo outputs (Forgot to reset the IO pins associated TimerZ0/Z1 to be controlled by the timer after the cycle of grabbing Analog data…
Awhile ago I wrote a quick data capture program for the BAP that also allowed you to capture data like this, but I never did much of a back end for it.
Or probably the one you have[size=150] ““EDIT”” Yes… that’s the one you have… “”"[/size]. But i was looking for something cheap… LOL
So will probably pass for now.
Yep I have the second one. The first one looks like it might work pretty well. You might look around more for others that use the open source software… One of the comments up on sparkfun mentioned why buy it here when you can get it for $10-$20 cheaper elsewhere…
As to pass on the first one you mentioned. That depends. If you can actually build it for lets say $25 it will beat not having anything! As I mentioned in the first post, you can do a lot with careful use of triggers. Example not sure if some serial is working properly. Simply add something like a high command to some other IO line just before it and use this pin as a trigger… I do this from time to time still. When before all I had was the parallax usb oscilloscope thingy… parallax.com/Store/Education … fault.aspx, it also was very limited on what it could capture and I used that approach often…
Quick update on this: I see you can order the same one or similar one as the Sparkfun 1st one you mentioned from Seeedstudio… seeedstudio.com/depot/preord … l?cPath=75
Price: $60, but I believe it would ship direct from China…
I have no idea. Can’t read the specs, it is in some foreign language
But you can also probably hack together some code for one of your controllers to do a poor version. For example the Society of Robots (SOR) site with the Axon2 (ATMEGA 640), he has sample code that you can download and one is a scope program… Would probably not be hard to modify for other Atmega 640/1280 type controllers…
1.Option for iPhone, iPad or ipod touch
2. Connection to headphone jack 4-pin connector
3.special protective circuit to protect the highly sensitive input
4.compatible with many Audio-/Scope-Anwendungen from AppStore
5.quality oscilloscope Modulartastkopf for iPhone / iPod oscilloscope applications
6.4-pin plug fits iPhone and iPod Touch, iPad
7.Cable length 1.2 m
8.Compatible with iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad (IOS 3.x and 4.x iOS)
9.compatible with all Audio-scope applications that are used for iPod touch (2G) and iPhone (from 3G) available in AppStore (oscilloscope, Oscilloscope, Spectrum, SignalScope …)
10.Input voltage up to 50Volt (Vpp)
11.Switching 1:1 and 1:10
I have made a little test with FlyPad and a oscilloscope.
I am not realy good at trigering my signal…
I have also made a test from iPod to iPod oscilloscope. Sending a waveform to another ipod.
Look like it work, even try FlyPad to a iPod and it does work… trigering problem again… lol
No video since using the 2 ipod left me no camera… LOL
Personally it does give me indigestion as it is a counterfeit and it uses software from another company (Saleae.com) that they have spent lots of time and energy to create…