Velleman PCSGU250

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The Velleman PCSGU250 is a PC oscilloscope that was required for various ECE courses during 2011 and 2012. Professionals usually do not recommend buying PC oscilloscopes, instead suggesting Digital Storage Oscilloscopes for the same purpose. It has freely available (but not free) Windows drivers and software, and can be easily used in KVM or VirtualBox. Unfortunately, there is currently no linux support. bwr collected the following libpcap dumps using wireshark:

bwr is (writing in the third person and) planning to write a driver for this 'scope. He has (I have) no experience writing device drivers, though, so if you'd like to help, let him know!