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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: The Devil His Due
Date: 12 Mar 2024 02:46:52 GMT
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There are an number of cheap Chinese knockoffs of the Saleae logic 
analyzer:

amazon.com/dp/B077LSG5P2

For $12.69 how can you go wrong? It comes with the module, a USB cable and 
8 female/female Dupont wires. That's it. 

Sigrok's PulseView will work with it. Let's just say the installation 
attempt did not go well on Ubuntu. 'sudo apt install sigrok' works and 
PulseView comes up but locks up requiring a kill -9.

The Windows installer works as expected and the installation includes 
zadig to install a generic driver for the 'unknown device'. Start 
PulseView and it finds the device. 

Years ago RadioShack had a USB oscilloscope that more or less sucked. This 
isn't comparable to a high end logic analyzer but it certainly is 
sufficient to see a varying PWM output, or in this case 3 since I was 
driving the pins on a RGB LED. 

I probably could get it working on Linux but with the yearly disruption of 
my circadian rhythm I'm feeling lazy. I really wish the pols could take a 
break from their regular bullshit to bury DST in a deep, dark grave.