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When I saw the image I thought it was a prototype. That’s pretty funny.
It is a prototype, but honestly the production model doesn’t look to much better. Warning, Twitter link
It’s been printed on a textured sheet, lmao
Not even that. My bog standard budget preassembled 3d printer already produces far better top layers than what’s shown in those pictures.
It’s using ten year old microcontroller technology too. And ten year old 3d printing technology.
I guess that’s what you get when your kickstarter takes ten years to deliver.
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Ok fair on the finish, but can we give an extra round of applause for this guy actually delivering something functional and not just the wish.com version. If it’s just one guy honestly I’m ok with mediocre 3d printing.
At least he finally came through.
I definitely don’t need this but I want it so bad.
You just want to play Doom on it. We know.
You read my mind. That was my first question. Microcontroller? C? Ok yeah it can run doom for sure. But e ink? It’d look terrible…
This is one of those things that seems like it has a high gadget desirability potential on the surface, but I really can’t see replacing my existing perfectly functional (and probably significantly more durable) smartwatch with this. I already have one of those credit card sized pocket oscilloscopes. I can’t see any need for a device more portable than that. Even for the purposes of just showing off to your nerd friends, you’d only ever really be able to do that once per nerd, and then what?
I already have one of those credit card sized pocket oscilloscopes.
Why have I never heard of this
To be fair, it’s bigger than a credit card. But you get the idea.
Do you have any rationalizations I could use for buying this when I rarely even use a multimeter?
Well, you can hook it up to just about anything that generates any kind of signal source and use it as a decoration. Just, like, plug it in across your computer’s speaker outputs or something and you’ll have an instant visualizer, for instance. Or even a household outlet, and you can see just how close to 60hz your mains power actually is on a second-by-second basis. I know plenty of people who have retro tube oscilloscopes kicking around above their computer desks purely for the mad scientist vibe, and this will be a lot cheaper than one of those…
You’re good at this.
They’re cool, I used it as a volt probe a handful of times, or to check if a signal was moving (like, is the uart coming up at all).
I do chip/board bringup, it’s a niche as hell usecase, I only used it if I didn’t have a rigol around.
Later bought a portable hantek, it’s basically a star trek tricorder, utterly amazing.
Theyre kind of trash, I rocked one for a while in my gear bag, used it a handful of times, mostly as a simple volt probe or “the signal is moving”.
And my irl job is chip/board bringup so I’m the best use case.
The portable hantek ones though, I swear by them, they do everything and you can plug them in to usb and run them on Linux.
The credit card ones have shit probes and are just barely worth it, especially since I mostly work at higher frequencies, I wouldn’t trust it past audio and I wouldn’t trust the precision much around that.
If this was kickstarted 10 years ago, Smartwatches weren’t nearly as prevalent back then.
I’m quite certain I was rocking an OG Pebble smartwatch in 2013. In fact, the Pebble’s low power usage screen was probably the inspiration for the screen on this thing.
200kHz bandwidth is not a lot, but can be useful sometimes, especially on some car sensors, but not really on embedded development. I have a small FNIRSI DSO152 for fun too :)
