Would this O-Scope be useful for pedal debugging?

[BillyJ]

http://www.elektor-electronics.co.uk/actions/gameboy/gameboy.htm


It looks nifty and is priced right if it will do me some good.
I still don't know squat about scopes but know I could benfit from learning to use one. I have been too lazy to build the stuff needed for a virtual scope. I have a gameboy aroundhere somehwere.
So would this be good???

[Paul Marossy]

I'm not exactly an expert on scopes, but it appears that it would be sufficient for typical audio type stuff. That's a pretty cool little gizmo.  

[Rob Strand]

Any oscilloscope is a useful piece of equipment to have - I'll admit I rarely use mine for audio stuff these days.

If you don't need need a high-end unit you can use your sound card/PC - see the recent thread regarding PC/sound-card based oscilloscopes.

It's an interesting idea but the cost looks a little high for what it is. Also, there's not a lot detailed specs there to judge it properly.

[Andy]

That's neat!  How much is that in US dollars?

[zachary vex]

about $150.  hard to say if it's a good or bad deal... depends on the resolution.  the price of a gameboy advance plus the unit might be close to the price of a low-cost handheld scope (check mouser catalog for prices) and the real scope might have better resolution, but there is the added coolness factor of having such a small unit that runs on only two aa batteries for quite a few hours (my fluke 123 scope only runs for 40 minutes on a charge and it's very bulky compared to a gameboy, but has excellent resolution and features.  but then again it's $1100.)