Sorry guys, we are just back from Chinese New Year and away from forums…
Please first excuse us for sending out buggy samples while striving to bring it to beta version. Especially on the software part, it’s still in alpha stage. We are focusing on the hardware part and SYS code now, trying to make it as much stable and efficient as possible. The APP layer carrying UI will be open sourced as DSO Nano soon, it’s just a simple stack up of functionalities.
Thanks for the sharing and suggestions!
We are trying to find a balance of size/cost/convenience. 72Msa/s analog channel requires serious probes, while the digital channel requires less. We don’t want to include 5 big probes which is a mess to carry. We might need to customize for smaller and neat probes but it takes quite some time on sourcing. (the best we found is mueller, now shutting down…)
We are not confident to call it a professional tool at all, it’s born in shade of more powerful and cheaper ICs, and evolving with open source community. It’s our goal to bring it up step by step to offer lessor professional tool for everybody, in long term.
Sorry for not stating this clearly before, we were a bit worried about the grey market impact. We never meant to obfuscate the truth, let me clarify here.
As in the package you have noticed, DSO series are developed by Chai Xiaoguang (Bure) and his team (e-design), he is a very veteran Chinese Engineer. Seeed Studio’s role is more like a producer of a movie, we coordinate the resources, bring it up to reality products, collect the feedback and work with e-design to improve. It’s similar to other cooperative projects like with dangerous prototypes.
But it’s not simple as working with dangerous prototypes. Since Seeed Studio is mainly covering oversea Markets, e-design are distributing kits to China hobbyist markets. Due to the price difference, someone assembled the kits and resell via e-bay, as the DSO201 you may have seen. To better distinguish them and upcoming domestic OEMs (like china-victor.com/cn/product_ … 196&ID=229 ), we changed the enclosure and package with a few improvements. MiniDSO site is the domestic(China) channel recently built by e-Design.
In the future, Seeed Studio will be the sole portal to oversea marketing. You will see “Innovated by e-design” in the laser marks, and Seeed Studio is working with e-design on a series of DSO with more open hardware infrastructure.
Please let me know if this answers the doubts, thank you!