It may have taken ten years to come through on this particular Kickstarter, but a promise is a promise. In late August 2023, backers who had since likely forgotten all about the project started receiving their oscilloscope watches from creator [Gabriel Anzziani]. Whatever the reason(s) for the delay, the watch looks great, and is miles ahead of the prototype pictures.
As you may have guessed, it functions as both a watch and an oscilloscope. The watch has 12- and 24-hour modes as well as an alarm and calendar, and the ‘scope has all the features of the Xprotolab dev board, which [Gabriel] also created: ‘scope, waveform generator, logic analyzer, protocol sniffer, and frequency counter.
Internally, it has an 8-bit Xmega microcontroller which features an internal PDI, and the display is a 1.28″ E ink display. When we covered this ten years ago, the screen was the type of Sharp LCD featured in the Pebble watch. [Gabriel]’s ‘scope watch features eight buttons around the edge which are user-programmable. One of [Gabriel]’s goals was for people to make their own apps.
Of course, the Kickstarter rewards are no longer available, but if you want to build your own small, digital ‘scope, check out this DIY STM32 project.
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Really! Wow!
I always felt a bit sorry for the guy. It was fairly clear to me that he hadn’t made enough on the Kickstarter to fund the development and manufacture, especially after the first hiccup.
I suppose the question now (as a backer) is whether the email address I used back then still works.
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With Early Access games going on for years, ten for a kick-starter should be nothing.
Based on my original pledge date for Star Citizen, I’m at 11 years waiting for a finished project.
My other pledges were for physical table/board games and those have all come through in a reasonable time frame.
Sacred feces! And I thought Udoo Key was doing a horrible job.
(Which they do)
Where do the probes attach?
I really hope your fingers are the probes
That would be your input protection, too!
Huh! Perhaps I will receive my WayTools TextBlade one day after all. But I doubt it.
Considering the forums died last year and the domain is now lapsed, I think that ship has sailed. I wish I’d gotten my refund.
That looks interesting; I missed it back then. I wonder what it would take to resurrect the project. Was the design open enough?
Hmm, now wondering when my Buccaneer 3D kickstarter printer will arrive, lol. REALLY should have believed it when they told us they were pirates :-)
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Some years ago I bought 3 xprotolab micro oscilloscopes from him. Great little devices and great support from Gabo.
I think the display *now* is a Sharp Memory LCD – and the old one was OLED.
Those Sharp displays have a really fast response, and tiny power consumption.
So we can’t get this as of now? It really looks interesting.
https://www.gabotronics.com/products/oscilloscope-menu/102/oscilloscope-watch-details.html
(The answer seems to be “not at the moment”)
Very cool. I have one of the XProtoLab oscilloscopes, which was my only ‘scope for a good while. I built a carrier board for it last year to mount it as a Eurorack module; it’s much more useful there, where I can plug patch cables into it, than when I had to stick it into a breadboard and run dupont wires around.