I’m considering the purchase of an oscilloscope for microcontroller / hobby robotics work. Any recommendations ? What are you using ? What features do I need ? Are the USB scopes worth the money and suitable for this type of work ?
Thanks!
Search the forum. We have discussed this several times and many people suggested some good choices.
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Try to find a good second hand device, otherwise there’s also some affordable DSO such as the ones from Seeed but for these last ones, may be it is more a gadgeet for you needs.
Look for PM339* on ebay…if you are patient you can get one for about $200 (or even less)…when they were new they were $5000…nice device in that it is both analog & digital scope…I have a few of the 4 channel versions
I recently bought the Rigol DS1052E. I’ve been very pleased with it so far.
I got mine for $315 (shipped) from their site. There’s a survey you fill out at the end of the checkout process that gives you an extra $30 off the list price.
However, I would ask myself what do I plan to use this for? I found after getting my scope that I still needed a logic analyzer to do a lot of things and ended up purchasing one weeks later. If what you really want to do is study I2C, SPI, etc. signals then spend $50 on a Logic Sniffer instead.
When buying an osilloscope buy the best you can afford. Its a tool that once you start using, you will wonder how you ever did anything without one. Its called oscilloscope dependency
Strange that wikipedia has no entry for “oscilloscope dependency” 
No, but if you have it they do have this…
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