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Hi, There seem to be a lot of people hacking DSOs. I was interested to find out why. Why do you do it? I mean both from a technical requirement point of view and any other reasons come to that.
Do you have a specific requirement for high bandwidth? What sort of hobby project would need 300MHz B/W investigation more than once in a year? I had considered hacking my Rigol 70MHz up to 300MHz, but am having second thoughts. My previous plan was to probe my basic 74HC circuits with a simple LED ' in/out/shake it all about ' logic probe, just a monostable really. That would have told me all I needed to know maybe 95% of the time.
But then I got fascinated by the idea of (a) getting something for nothing and (b) enabling some future extreme high tech project. But what extreme high tech project?
I guess some people have a need for regular fixing of complex digital circuitry that is prone to random ghost glitches, but that would more than likely be a work environment. And similarly expensive serial decoding / triggering would be more in a work environment too, I guess. But why would the everyday hobbyist need more than 70MHz and basic triggering functions? I had considered putting this in the beginners forum, since I am obviously missing the point here somewhere.
Do people have specific projects or kinds of work in mind when they hack scopes, or is my motivation of ' if it can be hacked, it should be hacked ' the order of the day? If you hack your scope are you also a PC overclocker? In order to really understand the nature of engineering, you have to understand what makes an engineer tick. Its his or her natural curiosity about the way things in our world work and why. We are problem solvers.
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We see a problem and we want to fix it. It gives us the same joy that a care giver obtains from helping others.they get a smile, we get a blinking led, so to speak. Its all about learning and the facination with technology around us. Even though we are bound by morals and dont wish to harm others, the curiosity factor in an engineer is huge. This is why hacking is a favorite engineering activity.
It has little to do with need, more like hacking is something you do because you can. I am very sucessful but I love hacking because there is an instant reward and its fun. True, company revenues are compromised when one does that and everybody pays in the end for such activity. I have a very high end Agilent, er Keysight MSOX scope that I wrote a check for with many options enabled. Totally legit. However, I hacked a Rigol DSA815 spec analyzer for 10 hz resolution BW because I thought it should be included in the selling price of the instrument.
I dont feel guilty. Dont listen to the nay-sayers of hacking. Be true to your principles and follow your engineering instincts. The accountants will get their money and the hacking community will continue to find leaks and vulnerabilities as they have always done. Remember Steve Job and Steve Wozniack got their start with the blue box dialer that used access codes to hack long distance phone calls. I made one in the seventies and it was the most fun I had ever had with hacking. From my viewpoint, it's about both.
I'm looking into one of the hackable cheapies; I need some of the features for my primary hobby and I can't afford to buy the features on a hobbyist budget unless I buy used or hack. My primary hobby right now is Model Aviation; in particular, I mostly build and fly FPV acrobatic quads.
The ones that do this: I'm no where NEAR as good a pilot as these guys; I enjoy the building as much or more than the flying. When building the quad, you get the fun of assembling the mechanical frame, then laying out and wiring the motors, ESCs and flight controller hardware. You have oodles of options regarding the radio control and camera and wireless video equipment; you can even add Telemetry and OSD/HUD to your setup. This ALL requires extensive learning and working in wiring, component selection, mechanical design and programming.
You have to connect to and update both the ESCs and flight controllers and even the OSD units; they're all Atmel (Arduino) or similar Silabs CPUs. In essence, you build a flying blender with telepresence and aerial photography gear, all controlled by a radio link to a scratch-built Beowulf cluster. Does that sound like fun to you? Mnem Electrons may be tiny, but when they gang up on you they always win. With all due respect, I think you're mistaken, again at least in terms of Rigol. Igo8 for mio moov.