Any word on the Mini DS213 (15Mhz,sorta 4-chan,func-gen,portable,~133EUR) yet? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: Rooster Cogburn
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2019, 02:47:50 pm
content: I've just seen that Mini has very recently released the DS213, an upgraded version of their DS203:https://www.banggood.com/MINI-DS213-Digital-Storage-Oscilloscope-Portable-15MHz-Bandwidth-100MSas-Sampling-Rate-2-Analog-Channels2-Digital-Channels-3-Inch-Screen-With-Logic-Trigger-p-1412378.htmlFor the old 203 they released the firmware source code and there are some pretty neat looking alternative firmware projects:https://github.com/MotoMaxis/DS203-DSOQuadI think this device would already be interesting simply because how cheap & tiny it is considering its specs, but what makes me interested in it is the hackability. Could do plenty of neat things with this tiny & cheap hardware platform.Unfortunately, it seems due to it being pretty new there's not a lot of info out there. Has anybody done a proper review of this thing yet? Where can I download the firmware source code? Has anybody started to port some of the various DS203 alternative firmwares to this new platform yet?

author: Rooster Cogburn
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2019, 04:19:40 pm
content: Thought I'd ask on the official forum as well:http://www.minidso.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3397

author: gabonator
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: December 25, 2019, 11:02:37 pm
content: DS213 has some problem with FPGA chip. The trigger mechanism does not work correctly. They are working on the fix, but it was not still released. Here is a discussion thread on this topic:https://github.com/gabonator/DS203/issues/44By the means of "hackability", they provided all the necessary source code for developing custom applications as they did with DS203. Take a look here, it is focused on developing operating system for DS203/DS213/LA104:https://github.com/gabonator/LA104Overall the device looks very promising, I did some initial development, but currently I am waiting for the FPGA fix to finish the basic oscilloscope application for it (but I am waiting for the fix longer than half year...) If they won't fix it, I will try to do the triggering in software way

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 26, 2019, 05:35:00 am
content: The ui for these is universally terrible, trying to cram too many functions with too few controls. Maybe okish if you use it a LOT but for occasional use they are generally just frustrating to use. I have a 203 with "gabonator's" alternative firmware (I have also used wildcat, that was even worse than the original for frustration), it's almost usable on an occasional basis, I only wan't to throw it across the room for about half an hour every time I use it. So that's an improvement.

author: gabonator
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 05:30:06 pm
content: sleemanj, if you have DS203 you can upgrade it to a usb oscilloscope:

author: PinheadBE
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2024, 12:07:32 am
content: Quote from: gabonator on December 25, 2019, 11:02:37 pmHi Gabonator,I've seen there's a lot of stuff for the LA104 in your Github.I wonder: Is there a way to revert back to the official firmware (as provided in the hex file from Miniware) if needed ?Thanks