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Eheh... Thanks. NKC has had a deal on the two (DS1052E and DG1022) for some time now, so I convinced my parents to pick up the bill as a graduation present. I've been wanting a decent oscilloscope since I was like 10 or 11 years old. But yeah, I had one of those same oscilloscope kits before this (128x64 display, 3 switches, 7 pushbuttons, PCB front and rear panels). I pretty much learned surface-mount soldering on that kit. It's affordable and decent as a basic scope if you have nothing else, but you can do so much more with a decent commercial bench scope.
Yes, I'm building new hardware. The above hardware is very similar to the MPGuino, but I wouldn't say it's "for MPGuino". Now that the basic framework is laid out, I'm leaning toward a design with a graphic display. Code-wise, it's pretty much just a matter of including the glcd library and writing the code to draw the display pages. Hardware-wise, graphic LCDs that are compatible with the glcd lib take up way more IO lines than character displays, so a mega-style Arduino board is probably a necessity. There are serial-controlled graphic displays out there, but it seems that would require pretty heavy modification of glcd, which is beyond my present abilities.
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