The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market

Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by mindentropy on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:05AM (#14854157)

Great list! I too am a embedded engineer and use the stuff you mentioned in my office.

The most important thing for me is the scope because I develop bare metal firmware (includes drivers etc) for both SoCs and microcontrollers. I use a Rigol 100MHz scope and I really like it. Of course I could not go for the higher speed scopes because of the budget.

Also for some of the instruments I have found that Tek and Keysight provides refurbished stuff for much lesser prices. Have you tried getting any refurbished stuff and what is your opinion on it?

For the logic analyzer I found it a waste as a separate instrument. I would prefer to have the analyzer in the scope itself as all in one so that I can do analysis on only one screen.

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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by SAI_Peregrinus on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:12AM (#14856295)

I've not tried refurbished, though I assume it would be fine. Tek and Keysight make great gear.

The advantage of the PC-based logic analyzer is in the ease of use, mostly in setup. Also in the number of channels, the ones built into scopes tend to be 16 channels. The two-screen thing is a bit of an issue, it would be better if Rigol's PC software for controlling the scope was halfway decent. Tek's software is much better.

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