In addition to the hefty aluminum-cased SmartScope, there are two 60 MHz probes, a 24 inch USB A/Mini-B interface cable, a 10-conductor ribbon cable that connects to the SmartScope auxiliary port, and nine grabbers that connect that ribbon cable to your circuit under test. My questions were whether those capabilities would be of help to me as a hobbyist, and how my “dinosaur” hobbyist sensibilities (which date back to the late 50s) would react to the “more modern” user interface.įigure 2 shows what comes in the box from LabNation. There are several fairly rigorous evaluations of the SmartScope in various online publications, and it generally seems to meet its published specs. It is rather a report of my observations while using the device to perform various tasks I might come across in my adventures as an electronics hobbyist. Spoiler alert! This is not an exhaustive technical evaluation of each feature of the SmartScope against its published specifications. The result is a fresh user experience that you may find interesting and perhaps helpful. SmartScope designers state they “challenged the century-old interface of knobs and dials, and redesigned it from scratch” using the drag-and-drop/pinch-and-swipe user interfaces of modern mobile devices.
#SMARTSCOPE 5M AMAZON GENERATOR#
Created by a small group of EEs disappointed with previous USB scopes and funded by a Kickstarter campaign, SmartScope combines a dual-channel 30 MHz oscilloscope with a logic analyzer and an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) into an open architecture USB instrument that interfaces with most common platforms such as tablets, phones, and desktops (excluding the iPhone or iPad, which require jailbreaking). LabNation describes the SmartScope as “the oscilloscope of the new generation,” targeted at makers and hobbyists, as well as professional engineers.
The SmartScope features a re-imagined oscilloscope built around a “modern” touch screen user interface.
#SMARTSCOPE 5M AMAZON ANDROID#
The SmartScope from LabNation, shown here using an Android tablet to display programmable signals generated by the Amigo retro computer. Recently, I had the chance to review a bench instrument: the SmartScope USB oscilloscope from LabNation ( Here are the results of my test drive of this interesting device ( Figure 1).įIGURE 1.
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