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a1otoday at 12:50 AM1 replyview on HN

Super cool. Anyone recommends an oscilloscope for this day and age? I loved the Tektronix ones, but haven’t touched one in 16 years. I think it would be nice to have one to look into these kinds of signals - I know they are relatively simple enough to imagine, but this looks like something cool to show to kids.


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wildzzztoday at 1:21 AM

The USB and handheld ones are great and can be had for less than $100. The Hanteks can be interfaced with open source software which is great since you get a ton of features that normally wouldn't be included in budget models (like wire protocol decoding). As for benchtop models, Siglent and Rigol are going to be the most affordable. There's a way to generate license keys from certain models if you care. Obviously Tektronix and Keysight are top end but are like 10x the price of Siglent/Rigol.