![]() Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Order today and you can be automating your data acquisition by tomorrow. For many uses, ADP3250 2-input version without probes will do a fine job but check out the other options before checking out. There are four ‘versions’ of this product: you can get 2 or 4 analog input and with or without probes. What if you want to get some large data capture going, where you don’t want to be restricted by USB? Or if you wanted to connect some additional hardware? We like that Digilent opened up this capability – most test equipment companies would not be excited to let the user log into the device itself and mess around!įor scientists and automation and test engineers, this is a very promising tool – and you can pick up one from Digi-Key for immediate shipment right now! But even with Ethernet, there’s always the risk of bandwidth or dropped packets. Not surprisingly, this scope runs embedded Linux, that’s how it can do stuff like have USB host and Ethernet. One feature that really stands out for the ADP3000 is that, yes, you can plug it into a computer via USB like you’d expect to capture data on a host PCB, but you can also log in directly into the scope in “ Linux Mode“. Having seen physicists/biologists/mech e’s struggle with how to automate their experiments, this tool would work very nicely in a graduate or company lab. So you know that there’s going to be excellent integration, with the Digilent tools getting “First Class” support in LabVIEW. ![]() ![]() That’s because Digilent is a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Instruments who make LabVIEW an extremely-popular lab/data capture/analysis program. Instead where we think this tool would really shine is automation or test engineering, where components or setups need to be analyzed or as part of a integration test. ![]() So we think that while it could be used as a benchtop toolkit, the ADP3000 isn’t designed for that. And, personally, I still really like twiddling physical knobs when debugging a circuit. Even my trusty old Tek TDS2014, bought 15 years ago, has 1 GS/s and 100 MHz sample rate. Now, to be completely fair – this isn’t going to replace a benchtop scope.
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