First part of the reply is to break up your big wall of text into something with structure to aid comprehension -
"One of the tools I use every day is an oscilloscope. Which is powered via USB 3.0 from a PC."
It may be 'powered from' a PC, but does it have any form of data communication with a PC or other device?
What is the make/model of your mystery 'scope?
It seems to me that perhaps you need to be concerned in the first instance with interfacing the 'scope to the RPi system. Wirelessly connecting to an RPi thereafter will be the 'easy' part.
One possible package you might investigate is sigrok. Is your 'scope listed here - https://sigrok.org/wiki/Supported_hardw ... illoscopes
Hi all. I am very green to Raspberry pi and this forum so don't be to harsh. I do, do some circuit board design and have spent enough time in CAD to be dangerous enough. I have messed with setting up my own servers a little. I also work in the automotive field specializing in electrical, network diagnostics. I also do automotive programming. Which brings me to the reason of this post.
One of the tools I use every day is an oscilloscope. Which is powered via USB 3.0 from a PC. Works great but some times, more often then not it being wireless would be amazing. Only 1 or 2 known laptop of tablet based oscilloscopes have wireless features via WiFi(I assume they are connected via access point). Unfortunately the oscilloscope I have is not wireless. Which is a shame because the oscilloscope I use is the holy grail in my field.
What I would like to do is a use a raspberry Pi to turn my oscilloscope wireless. Obviously I will need to worry about an an enclosure and powering the oscilloscope via some sort of rechargeable battery among other things. The first step though is to see if the Raspberry Pi can do the wireless part.
I was looking at the Raspberry Pi 4 since it has USB 3.0 and 5 GHz WiFi ac. In a perfect world the Raspberry Pi zero 2 w would be ideal, but it doesn't have USB 3.0 and 5 GHz WiFi ac. Hoping you much smarter people than me could shed light if what I am trying to do is possible with the raspberry Pi?
NOTE: an dyes I have read a little on this and watched a video or two. So I do know people have turned wired USB devices into a wireless device. I just don't know if they have done anything at the uses the USB 3.0 speeds/
"One of the tools I use every day is an oscilloscope. Which is powered via USB 3.0 from a PC."
It may be 'powered from' a PC, but does it have any form of data communication with a PC or other device?
What is the make/model of your mystery 'scope?
It seems to me that perhaps you need to be concerned in the first instance with interfacing the 'scope to the RPi system. Wirelessly connecting to an RPi thereafter will be the 'easy' part.
One possible package you might investigate is sigrok. Is your 'scope listed here - https://sigrok.org/wiki/Supported_hardw ... illoscopes
Statistics: Posted by B.Goode — Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:58 am