How to Build Your First Hardware Hacking Lab

Re:How to Build Your First Hardware Hacking Lab by timmaxw on Sunday October 22, 2023 @04:09PM (#37978643)

As a beginner, I've been a big fan of the Digilent Analog Discovery. This guide lists it under "logic analyzers", but it's also a passable oscilloscope if you don't need more than 30MHz bandwidth. Because the target market is undergraduates learning electrical engineering, it's designed to be inexpensive, doesn't take up much space, is easy to get started with, etc.

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Re:How to Build Your First Hardware Hacking Lab by T3OU-736 on Sunday October 22, 2023 @04:56PM (#37979021)

As a fellow beginner, I have always been a fan of Salee https://www.saleae.com/] stuff, for much the same reasons you describe.

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Re:How to Build Your First Hardware Hacking Lab by wrongbaud on Sunday October 22, 2023 @08:01PM (#37980167)

The problem with Saleae IMO is that their current price point is way out of reach for beginners. The software is wonderful (as is the hardware), but it's hard to justify as a newcomer to the hobby at that price point

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Re:How to Build Your First Hardware Hacking Lab by T3OU-736 on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:27PM (#37980954)

Eek. I have not looked at their prices in too long! You are absolutely right. My memory suggested Saleae based on prices like this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/378 ($USD 149. Very clearly, no longer the case!

Appreciate the pointing out the staleness.

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Re:How to Build Your First Hardware Hacking Lab by nxobject on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:33PM (#37980978)

I think Saleae's made way in the low-end market to Chinese Saleae clones that have similar software and hardware to their original models – at similar prices, too.

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