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Home labs of electronics engineers?

tin_xdevs
tin_xdevs over 10 years ago

Or should I say more, caves? That's what volt-nutting can bring you into:

 

Home lab

 

Most of gear was saved from scrapping by repairs. Collected stuff over last 5 years or so. DMM collection quickly grew after getting into precision DC voltage obsessions, with voltage references and such.

Total list of gear as by today:

6 x Keithley 2001 DMM (2 still need some repairs)

1 x Keithley 2002

1 x Keithley 2000 (not shown here)

1 x Keithley 2400 SMU

1 x Keithley 2510 TEC SMU

HP 4263B (LCR Meter)

HP 33120A ARB 15MHz

Tektronix CSA7404 with pair of P7380 probes  TCA-1MEGTCA-1MEG some P6245's

Tektronix TLA714 with TLA7AA4 and set of probes (P6810, 2 x P6860, some mictor adapters, etc)

EDC MV106 DC Voltage standard (+-30ppm)

Few selfmade LM399 and Linear LTZ1000 stable references

ESI DB52 decade resistor

ERSA ICON1 soldering iron

Bunch of Vishay Precision Group 0.2ppm resistors for testing/calibration.

 

What drives you? Do you have homelab? Reveal your bunkers image

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  • Robert Peter Oakes
    Robert Peter Oakes over 10 years ago +9
    Well I was brave enough to share my junk LAB way back so here is the new and improved version and through the door to the right is my workstation (A little messy) Yes thats a PI 2 on the desk with full…
  • jw0752
    jw0752 over 10 years ago +8
    Hi Illya, Wow, What a beautiful concentration of precision. It looks like you have a variety of projects in the works too. I have recently up graded my shop area in the basement. It is always a work in…
  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago +8
    I'd like to see this at the Smithsonian (among a lot of other things, natch). They've recreated Ralph Baer's home workshop as an exhibition, and his original Brown Box console prototypes are there too…
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  • Robert Peter Oakes
    Robert Peter Oakes over 10 years ago

    Well I was brave enough to share my junk LAB way back so here is the new and improved image version

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    and through the door to the right is my workstation (A little messy)

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    Yes thats a PI 2 on the desk with full Windows 10 IoT with a 480*320 touch screen all fully functional, the top left screen is the PI HDMI output . No its not mirroring on to the LCD...Sorry. The LDC has a screen capture on it of the HDMI screen and it is verlayed with touch zones so I can still effectivly click the buttons with finger/pen and have it perform the same as the HDMI with a mouse (I will be posting all the code etc later today with luck)

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  • Workshopshed
    Workshopshed over 10 years ago in reply to Robert Peter Oakes

    I do like a home made bench.

    And home made tools are good too http://www.homemadetools.net/builder/Workshopshed

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  • Workshopshed
    Workshopshed over 10 years ago in reply to Robert Peter Oakes

    I do like a home made bench.

    And home made tools are good too http://www.homemadetools.net/builder/Workshopshed

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  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

    Totally agree about the homemade bench. I rarely find what I'm looking for off-the-shelf, so knocking one up is the way to go.

     

    Don't want to go off on too much of a tangent, but my home office has a homemade desk. Kinda, anyway. It's an old Ikea desk, cut in two, with one piece mounted on top of the other and re-covered with laminate flooring! All stuff I already had, and repurposed to make something just a little bit awesome in the small space available image

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    I'm also a big believer in setting the right tone for a room's purpose. I feel like it helps your creativity enormously, and switches it on the moment you walk in (that's how I justify buying cool collectible stuff that has little functional purpose!). Like my cool homemade wall art:

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    And my handmade Luke Skywalker lightsaber prop replica (all the same parts they used at Elstree when making the props, and put together before the days of eBay):

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    And this one-armed bandit, rescued from a chip shop in Glasgow and lovingly restored (entirely mechanical, and an amazing feat of engineering when you look inside!), all watched over by a Monkey sock monkey (which my wife made image):

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    Okay, that's all totally off topic, but I'll aim to get some photos of my wife's studio (she's a fashion designer) that I hijack for all my projects! It's an amazing space.

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  • Problemchild
    Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to spannerspencer

    Your room looks like a Snug at the local pub back in the day excellent ..Would improve my creativity immensely image hic !

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