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As for licensing, it is all open source, and anyone can rebuild it (and even sell it)

… As for licensing, it is all open source, and anyone can rebuild it (and even sell it). There is a patent on the internal BASIC, but there is also a perpetual license to the software builds I have made and tested and released -- conceivably you could build the scope without BASIC at all -- it is unneeded except when you use the board in "deep dive" mode for BASIC programming. If there is interest, I have toyed with the idea of making a Mosquito-Scope, with 2 channels and selectable input amplification (for sub-millivolt signals) based on the still-brand-new dsPIC33A, which is actually cheaper and faster than the PIC32MK. -- Rich

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I know you are looking at this for education but I've actually ordered two to toss in my travel bag for when I visit factories to handle manufacturing bringup. Great tool. Thank you.

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I think the low cost of the flea-scope justifies sticking to just one analog input per device, even with a successor, provided that the interface gets a little bit of an upgrade to be able to handle multiple scopes at once. This would retain the small form factor and would keep the design free from compromises.

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My goal was to be able to get these in a classroom at every seat This is really amazing and you are to be commended. And you've clearly thought hard about what can make that successful. There's just no replacement for every student having their own setup to experiment with. My first exposure to o-scopes, the whole class was basically sharing one giant Tek 7k series scope, one of the best of the time (with commiserate cost), and while I did learn the basics, it wasn't till I had my own much, much less feature filled scope did I learn it well enough to be useful. N.B.: Since you're new here, I'll just warn you that it's SoP around here that any time anyone posts an "I built this", the comments will be filled with nitpicks about trivial issues presented as massive errors, people telling you how much better they would have done it if they ever got around to doing it and how they got somethi…

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