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1Ghz Keysight Pro-Gaming Oscilloscope with Liquid Cooling

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coppice:

--- Quote from: nctnico on March 01, 2021, 07:32:11 pm ---2) Keysight has sponsored the video to attract more attention & contestants to their annual contest; that is how the project serves their purpose.

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It might attract entrants, but does it attract buyers? I'm not sure people want to spend big bucks on exotic instruments sold with the "clown car" vibe.

nctnico:

--- Quote from: coppice on March 01, 2021, 07:44:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 01, 2021, 07:32:11 pm ---2) Keysight has sponsored the video to attract more attention & contestants to their annual contest; that is how the project serves their purpose.

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It might attract entrants, but does it attract buyers? I'm not sure people want to spend big bucks on exotic instruments sold with the "clown car" vibe.

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At some point most people grow up and they will remember the brand. Mercedes has a whole bunch of merchandise for kids:
https://www.mercedes-benz-classic-store.com/en/collections/kids/
At some point they may want the real thing.

If you look more carefull you'll see a lot of brands will try to imprint on people at a young age because that is a cost effective thing to do. Tobacco manufacturers are notorious for this method of advertising.

Nominal Animal:
I once did a practice poster on nanorheometers used in biophysics to study fluid/suspension flows in response to applied forces at the nanometer scale.  These are usually commercial atomic force microscopes converted to the purpose; sometimes just a matter of using different software, sometimes rather interesting hacks.  (IIRC, my poster had just a couple of examples of use, and focused on the modifications to AFM needed.)

I can imagine tons of different ways an expensive scope could be modified to work even better in a particular situation/environment, from clean room (say, hard drive recovery or similar) needs and acoustic/EMI measurement setups onwards.

Most manufacturers I've dealt with are horrified about anyone opening their enclosures (the warranty void stickers), and talking about adapting one of their high end devices to fit a specific need even better probably causes heart palpitations to their marketing teams.  I can see huge marketing value in doing that sort of a video, based on the interest my practice poster garnered in my fellow students at the time, and because it would be so different to the current industry marketing practices.  I still remember that practice poster session, because despite being about as interesting as dirt, the possibilities such a tool has made for a surprisingly lively discussion among various physics students, with lots of other "outside the box" ideas on modifying existing equipment voiced out loud.

Anyone who is interested in garnering publicity by adding Raspberry Pi RGB lights to a tool is a tool in my opinion.  That sort of stuff just clogs my bullshit filter.

Then again, I could be wrong.  Perhaps billions of flies are right, and dung actually does taste excellent.

tautech:
Yeah well what else would you do with a DSO with only 4 Mpts of memory depth.  :P

nctnico:

--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 01, 2021, 09:03:45 pm ---I can imagine tons of different ways an expensive scope could be modified to work even better in a particular situation/environment, from clean room (say, hard drive recovery or similar) needs and acoustic/EMI measurement setups onwards.

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Probably but you'd have to start with a scope which isn't broken.

A couple of years ago there was a thread about an Ebay listing showing a Tektronix scope on which all the front panel controls where extended using long plastic rods. Probably the oscilloscope was at danger of carrying high voltages so someone choose to increase the isolation barrier to make it safe for the operator.

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