Since the last post a prototype was created with WiFi, Ethernet and an extension slot. As many prototype when you are green behind the ears, it had problems. I learned a lot with it during the hardware debugging. It took nearly one week to solve it (it was a chair/keyboard interface problem ;) ).

But life and work can be really unpredictable. I had a LOAD OF WORK due to people leaving the company to have a better job/salary. I was the last of the teams and as i am lead/manager i was tasked to build an entire teams. Covid pandemic wasn't a big time to find good developers or project/product managers. You can easily see where it going. I had to be a Cloud Developer, a Data Engineer, an Application Architect, an Admin Sys, a Product Owner and a Project Manager, but i suxx in the last two and was a junior in the first two.

I had to make a choice. My work was an hell as i had to do every thing to complete the project i initiated one year ago. But man, it was a hellish fun time as it revolved around many tech i never worked with and wanted to play with (dev syndrom). You can guess i choose my work over my electronic hobbies, the first one paying what my family eat.

I now have the time to continue this project as i achieved to solve my problems by finding competent peoples to replace me in what am really bad at and to help me at completing/maintaining the project  (including some IA).

BUT, now that i have time for my hobbies, I saw this project becoming obsolete :)

Someone used my work to complete/start a new version of his own, correcting some of my errors. It's what i love love on the net, share something and see it grow behind what you sawn. I'am not saying that i initiated this move toward his project, am just glad that what i did was usefull to even one person and that i was able to contribute somehow.

I took a look at what he did a saw he even gone behind what i intended to do on my first prototype. I wanted to add an Ethernet using an ESP, but he did it by using the native TDS3K Ethernet capabilities plus WiFi. More than that he included a way to solve the common problem of old TDS3K scopes : dead NVRAM.

Even if what he did won't answer all of my needs/wishes, it solve a lot of them. As such I won't probably work anymore on this project and adopt his.

That's why I'll had here the links to his work :
* https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/reverse-engineering-tektronix-tds3gv-module-for-tds3000-series-oscilloscopes/msg3427926/#msg3427926

* https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/tds3000c-series-bw-sampling-hack/msg3427884/#msg3427884

It wouldn't be fair to mention and thank only Sicco (the board creator) so i'll say it another way :

Thank you the great eevblog community, and all of the people that contributed in making my TDS3K scopes more usable !!!!