Good that they finally “made right” and I would love one from a novelty standpoint but…
That thing looks “3d printed” in the worst possible way. Like, they didn’t even bother to do a quick pass with some sandpaper to get rid of the FDM striations.
I am not saying everything needs to be injection molded and 3d printing is awesome for small batch products (my favorite HOTAS is pretty blatantly printed). But I would at least expect a quick pass with some sandpaper to make it feel “premium”.
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.
But I would at least expect a quick pass with some sandpaper to make it feel “premium”.
uh, well, it took 10 years to get these watches shipped, sanding would probably have taken another year at least
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.
Idk I feel like the people who back things on kickstarter have their expectations set way too high (and obviously the people running it are naive and play into that) but good lord you guys funded $70k for an oscilloscope and you’re upset it takes a decade? You are astoundingly lucky this even came out, and it only did because the guy that ran it has a heart of gold.
People really need to start to understand what it takes to bring a product to market before they start backing kickstarters
Yeah that dude probably could have ran with the money everyone forgot about. Amazing that he kept going tbh.
It’s 70k, it’s not going to get him a private jet he can fly to belize, it’s half a year of engineering salary, probably less.
1 person files a complaint and he’s done for life.
I’d take 70k once please thx.
U act like he’d be unable to find a job if he walked away with the cash. Lol
I’m sorry. It looks like garbage. I can’t stand 3D printed stuff for anything other than prototypes.
And that armband is definitely a cheap Aliexpress bulk item. Seen a hundred of them.
Bruh a single dude made this over 10 years and shipped this all by himself. And that too on a total budget of 70k. I’m just glad this wasn’t just outright abandoned.
I think it’s really cool
The band is a NATO strap, pretty standard across the board.
I definitely don’t need this but I want it so bad.
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 :)
It would be fine for audio work, for instance, but the overall size and resolution could make measurements a challenge.
I wonder what the effective number of bits are on this thing.
