Cool tool
The specs aren't great but for basic fooling around, this is a fantastic deal.
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The Digilent Analog Discovery� design kit:
A Complete Analog Design Kit for the Price of a Textbook
The Digilent Analog Discovery� design kit, developed in conjunction with Analog Devices Inc., is the first in a new line of all-in-one analog design kits that will enable engineering students to quickly and easily experiment with advanced technologies and build and test real-world, functional analog design circuits anytime, anywhere - right on their PCs. For the price of a textbook, students can purchase a low-cost analog hardware development platform and components, with access to downloadable teaching materials, reference designs and lab projects to design and implement analog circuits as a supplement to their core engineering curriculum.
Engineering schools have traditionally had to build and maintain centralized teaching labs. These labs, with their specialized equipment and trained lab assistants, are expensive and hard to maintain. With the Analog Discovery design kit, we're helping schools build distributed labs - labs that can be found in dorm rooms, cafeterias, libraries - anywhere students want to work.
$199 to us civilians but $159 to schools and $99 to students. Combines Oscilloscope, Voltmeter, Logic Analyzer, Waveform Generator and Power Supply. Comes with free software (Windows).
Posted by DaveH at September 27, 2012 4:18 PM