OpenScope Is an Open-Source, Multi-Function Programmable Instrument

If you hate spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on conventional benchtop instruments, then you’re going to love Digilent’s latest Kickstarter campaign.

OpenScope is a multi-function programmable tool that’s powerful enough for most hobbyist projects yet affordable enough for most beginner budgets. Based on the Microchip PIC32 MZ processor, it connects to your computer (via Wi-Fi or USB) enabling you to acquire, analyze, visualize, and control signals from circuits, sensors, and other electronics.

Unlike typical USB instruments, OpenScope can operate as a standalone device like an Arduino or Raspberry Pi, but with high-speed precision analog and digital I/O.

OpenScope also comes with WaveForms Live, a free open-source JavaScript-based software that runs in a browser. This allows you to configure the OpenScope to become an oscilloscope, a function generator, a logic analyzer, a power supply, or even a data logger.

We designed OpenScope as a tool that you can use to troubleshoot your projects on the go (e.g. real-time monitoring of a mobile robot or UAV ), monitor long-term (create an IoT device to capture, calculate, and log readings over many hours or days), or just want to have a deeper understanding of electronics through visualizing what’s happening inside of the circuit.

You can learn more about the module and pre-order one for yourself on Digilent’s Kickstarter page.