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  • Author Author: strb
  • Date Created: 26 Jan 2025 3:13 PM Date Created
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New home, first lab!

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26 Jan 2025

After more than a year of work to tidy up everything, I finally moved from my parents house to my new apartment, living on my own for the first time.

With the move, I managed to gain something that I had wished for a long time: a dedicated space for my home lab. The desk is self built to maximize the space available (and to save some money), obtaining a comfortable 3.2m long by 0.9m deep work surface to set up both soldering and measuring instruments at the same time, plus a small space in between for the pc.

To store all instruments and tools, I was able to repurpose some old furniture that was around in the apartment, so I don't need to keep dusting them Slight smile.

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Life is still pretty busy but I hope to be enjoying my new space soon, maybe with a roadtest or by participating for my first time to a design challenge!

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    michaelkellett over 1 year ago

    I like shelves at the back of the bench for test gear. Keeps the cables out of the way (to an extent). The easily accessible gear changes quite often according to what I'm working on.

    Tidiness is volatile.

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    kmikemoo over 1 year ago in reply to colporteur

    Similar to colporteur , I need more light these days.  I tried a strip of LED's beneath my shelf, but the mounting became problematic - the first half of the 3M double sided tape lost its' stick.  The little screw clips worked, but the tiny sag in between clips annoyed me.  I bought a low cost LED shop light to replace it.  I did have to fabricate a diffuser for the edge of the shelf since it is about at eye level but I'm happy with the result.  It also powers from mains voltage so no wall wart is required.  It plugs right into the smart outlet.

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    strb over 1 year ago in reply to colporteur

    "If and when you decide on shelving over the desk, set the lower shelf wider to give you some space for over the bench lighting."
    Thank you for the advice, I will for sure keep it into mind. It is highly probable that some shelving is going to appear sooner or later.

    "What nothing on the floor? Valuable storage space you can walk and trip over:)"
    I have a secret: I took the photo before fitting stuff under the desk :)

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    colporteur over 1 year ago

    Being long in the tooth, my eyes need lots of light to function reasonably.

    If and when you decide on shelving over the desk, set the lower shelf wider to give you some space for over the bench lighting. 

    What nothing on the floor? Valuable storage space you can walk and trip over:)

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    strb over 1 year ago in reply to dougw

    I don't think I will be able to keep it tidy like in the photo for a long time Sweat smile

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