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by 123pie123 973 days ago
I've still not used my oscilloscope (properly - measuriung some DC value when I couldn't find my multimeter doesn't count??)

I find a good circuit simulator helps in speeding up the hassle in 'probing' electronics - there's many out there, I do like this one though https://www.falstad.com/circuit/

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I feel almost the same about my oscilloscope but it did help me debug an i2c implementation that would have been very painful to debug otherwise. I could have done that with a much cheaper logic analyzer though. Most of the time the oscilloscope sits unused but sometimes I'm happy to have it when I want to very something simple like a clock signal on an old 8 bit computer. I'm really only scratching the surface of what it can do though with these simple use cases.