EEVblog 1701 – $599 Australian Made Moku:Go Instrument REVIEW – EEVblog

The $599 Moku:Go from Liquid Instruments is an Australian designed and manufactured USB/Ethernet/WiFi instrument, with 14 instruments in 1, and a 4 channel power supply.
Oscilloscope, Voltmeter, Logic Analyser, Waveform generator, Frequency Response Analyser, Lock in Amplifier, Laser Lock Box, Spectrum Analyser, PID Controller, Digital Filter, FIR Filter Builder, Data Logger, Pattern Generator.

00:00 – The Moku:Go from Liquid Instruments
02:56 – Teardown
07:06 – Designed and manufactured in Australia
10:32 – Cooling and heatsinking
12:57 – Detailed look at the power supply
16:00 – The OPA547 high voltage high current opamp
19:36 – The analog front end
22:15 – Optional Extras
24:13 – The software
26:17 – The Oscilloscope
29:43 – Not your traditional oscilloscope interface
31:12 – Where is the mixed signal capability?
32:15 – Why can’t you use multiple instruments as the same time?
33:06 – Export options look good
33:47 – The fan noise isn’t good
34:35 – The waveform generator
38:38 – Tongue action
38:59 – I had to resort to using another oscilloscope, LOL
39:30 – Are you KIDDING ME?
41:24 – Wait, THAT’S how you use two instruments at once?
43:56 – Why are they duplicating code?
44:49 – Spectrum analyser
45:33 – Another way to use two instruments at once?
46:50 – Wait, yet ANOTHER way to use two instruments…
48:33 – Low frequency spectrum analyser
49:10 – Where is the user manual for multi-instrument mode?
51:29 – They might have been thinking too hard…
52:18 – Frequency Response Analyser
53:20 – The Arbitrary Waveform Generator looks good
54:01 – The Power Supply
56:57 – The value here isn’t in general instrumentation
57:36 – Building a system, a simple digital filter…
1:02:17 – Another hidden way to view waveforms…
1:06:05 – Conclusion