JYE DSO138 Oscilloscope kit

[Yorkie]

JYE developed this kit as an educational product. Students can have some experience with soldering and assembly, and they have something to show for it at the end... I'd consider these kits - if only our purchasing systems would let us! Should RS or Farnell start to stock them, then no problem!
 
I can see this mounted inside one of Yorkie's oak boxes with a clear perspex lid and rechargeable batteries hidden beneath

Having to use approved suppliers such as Farnell and RS brings back fond memories of 'creative accounting' during my career at British Gas.

Expenditure was either 'revenue' which managers and supervisors could authorise, or 'capital', which  needed a capital application underpinned by a cost/benefit business case to justify the expenditure, to be authorised or not, higher up the 'food chain'. Back in the early 80s, when prices had fallen to about £20.00 each, pocket calculators were classed as 'office machinery' and thus, subject to a full capital application. We'd just ask the shop for a receipt for a stapling machine, paper punch or whatever. Everyone was happy - it applied oil to the wheels of industry, rather than treacle, and the powers that be at head office didn't have to anguish over weighty decisions such as: "should I or shouldn't I authorise the purchase of a pocket calculator?" On one occasion we urgently needed a diamond tipped core drill, the receipt for which was for ten sheets of hardboard, cans of Evostick and a ton of sand!

Ho hum.

As to little wooden 'Yorkie' boxes, I must confess I'd rather make the box than solder up the scope kit!

I'm so impressed with the stuff that comes out of China these days at such low prices and high quality that as you say Mark, it's often an impulse buy. Although I can't think of a use to which I could put one of these little scopes, doubtless they're most useful as a teaching aid to improve soldering skills, and to understand how the equipment works. It's easy to rush to judgement and pour scorn on it by making unfavourable comparisons with traditional analogue/digital scopes, but the same could have been said for the 'student' 'scopes of yesteryear such as the little 'Serviscope Minor'.