Home labs of electronics engineers?

So I just completed a lighting upgreade helped out by a nice company in China http://www.lumin-lighting.com , I now have a much brighter LAB so this I hope wil reflect in my videos etc

Before and After. with the same camera settings... much better

Oh, and the gear :-

LAB Bench                                                              (Home made, see DIY LAB Bench with Shelves)

Home made reflow oven                                        (80$ toaster Oven from local Store see:- BYOB Party #10 - Re-flow Soldering for Custom Neopixel displays)

100Mhz Attten ADS1102 Oscilloscope                  (E-Bay many years ago)

Agilent  33622A33622A Arbitory Waveform Generator RoadTest see:- http://www.element14.com/community/roadTestReviews/1744)

Agilent  U1273AU1273A DMM RoadTest Prize for best blog on the  33622A33622A

Agilent  U1272AU1272A DMM(Xmas Present a while back

Keysight  U1461AU1461A Insulation Multimeter RoadTest, one had a cal issue and so Keysight sent another and said I could keep the first, see:- Keysight U1461A Insulation Resistance Tester - Tear Down and U1461A Insulation Resistance Meter - Torture Test to test some IP67 ratings)

Precision Resistance Box (0.001% ~ 0 temp co)  (Vishay Bulk Metal - made specially for me by one of their engineer see:-Precision resistance Standard -  Bulk Metal Foil Technology from Vishay Precision Group (VPG))

Electronic DC Load (5A, 60V)                              (Home Made see:- Complete Analogue DC Load (0-5A, 0 - 60V) but not 300W )

Keithley  2230-30-12230-30-1 PSU(Keithley

HP 3478A 51/2 Bench DMM                                  (E-Bay needed repair or so the add said, see:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCUIXasdtDk

MDO3054MDO3054 500Mhz Oscilloscope(Tektronix who later also provided the keys to unlock everything on it for me

SAIKE 898D soldering station                                (E-Bay)

Weller Soldering iron                                              (I have had that since I was 17)

Minions                                                                    (Home made by my DaughterJessica, its a Top Member thing so yo need to get yourself invited by working hard and getting noticed )

Keysight 34470A34470A 71/2 digit Truevolt/DMM RoadTest Not shown, awaiting delivery)

CEL Robox 3D printer                                            (IoT of Holiday Lights Winner , In the room behing the LAB see:- BYOB Party #1, "Bring you own Bulbs" - The Internet of Holiday Lights)

Varions Arduinos, Launchpads and accessories    (RoadTests, E-Bay, and other vendors)             

I think a take away for any new engineers looking at our labs and wondering how we get alot of get like we do, HARD WORK but fun work. we work extreamly hard (Probably in excess of a hundred hours a month in my case) helping in the Element 14 community and on our own personal blogs like my own YouTube channel TheBreadboardCA it eventually gets noticed and vendors start sending you things for review and like a RoadTest, you get to keep it afterwards and get more if you do a good job. Look at the Community level of many of the LAB Owners or comenters  above , their TOP MEMBERS and very high in the E14 points system, this means they have been working very hard consistently for many years to help you, Element 14 recognises this and on occasion helps us out to help you by providing special road tests, early releases of product (Not always big, often as simple as an evaluation board or something from TI, AMEL or others). If you only ever show up when a road test is available, well you might get the road test but thats it, other things wont come your way, but if you work hard, support the community and others then eventually that hard work will pay off and people will notice

Look at the E14 Top Members notice for instance:- Top Members

and look at channels like the  Workshopshed - Making and repairing things in a shed at the bottom of the garden ,  EEVBLOG, Martin Lorton, Ian Johnston, some are not full time but all of those channels are on my fav list and all the owners work very hard to provide quality content to the community (Not nexessaraly E14 but the EE Community at large)

So WORK HARD, HAVE FUN, BE PASSIONATE and record and SHARE everything about what you do and the rest will come in time.

Peter

Vishay Bulk Metal - made specially for me by one of their engineer

Made a tear on my eye... I had to pay big moneys for my foils.

Perhaps I could make a post about them, like a guide how to spend some $$$$ on 20pcs of resistors..

They are expensive but cant be beat, and if you consider that for 0$$$ extra they will make what ever value you want so if you need sa a 1.23456K, that will cost the same as a standard 1K and the temo co of these resistors means you can almost forget about worring about it, if you can survive it, the resistor will still be at the correct value pretty much

I am amazed about how well these metal foil resistors perform (Providing you dont abuse them)

They are expensive but cant be beat, and if you consider that for 0$$$ extra they will make what ever value you want so if you need sa a 1.23456K, that will cost the same as a standard 1K and the temo co of these resistors means you can almost forget about worring about it, if you can survive it, the resistor will still be at the correct value pretty much

I am amazed about how well these metal foil resistors perform (Providing you dont abuse them)