[ladyada]

a hardware usb analyzer is just one of those things that's terribly expensive, not really even because of the hardware (its not that complicated) but because of the software which must be really good and this one runs on all OS's. I will admit I used this project as an excuse to get one but good electrical engineering tools cost in the thousands of $

[lwhi]

Maybe it could be possible to set-up a virtual hackspace-equipment sharing service, where groups can purchase and pool resources .. allowing remote groups to loan items like this on an adhoc-basis.