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There are a lot of pc scopes which use USB. Only some use network, like the red pitaya does. An example of such an application with usb is the PicoScope. They use USB 3 and can sent 150MS/s continously. The NCSA would only need a 15Mbyte/s or so when samping at 1.1Ms/s. Your video driver should not be the bottleneck. It is when sending video to your pc, your video driver has a lot to do because it updates a big part of the frame and it has to decode the mpeg in real time. Updating a scope signal with a double buffered canvas can be quite fast. Its just removing a line and drawing another one. That should be a piece of cake for your video driver. If you do it the right way of coarse. The way we use in the current NCSA client is also not the correct way. I will change that soon. But its al theory here. I never really tried. But I like to try it out sometime. And yes, noise is a problem, but can be suppressed with caps and ferrite beads. An optical (galvanic) link between the usb and the measurement electronics with separate power supplies would be the best solution. The usb side can be powered by the USB port. I contacted Neal. Neal was enyoing the summer. That's why nothing happened. We will slowly startup the project again when the days are getting colder and shorter. But the bootloader will not be a high priority functionality. That functionality will only be interesting if Elektor is willing to incorporate it in products they sell in the future. Otherwise it has no point because you will need a programming tool to upload the bootloader. I find the diamond hotend quite interesting. Its huge. I've always liked the E3Dv6 series it uses. Its one of the best. I hope it works out for you. I've got two drones now. The largest is more than 1m in diameter and has 8 577W 400kV motors with 300mm propellers. It runs on 22.2V with a 16Ah LiPo battery (for 15 minute flights). A total of 4.6kW maximum power. It ways about 6kg total and can carry 4kg extra payload. But I think I will sell it. I like building them. But flying is a bit boring. Here in the Nehterlands there are new regulations coming up. It will not be allowed to fly more than 100 meters away and not higher than 50m. Also flying FPV is not allowed. So its no fun unless you are a photographer. But then you will need certificates and always fly with two persons. One pilot and one photographer. I'll stick to my helicopters (TREX 600) instead. Those are the same size but more suitable because you usually do not fly more than 100m away.