Parts and Equipment Wishlist
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Heavy Tools
[edit | edit source]Laser Cutter
[edit | edit source]This requires its own page. Laser Cutter.
Temperature controlled oven
[edit | edit source]- For large surface mount soldering projects...
Light Tools
[edit | edit source]Power Drill
[edit | edit source]We've got at least two corded and one cordless floating around the space.
Miter saw
[edit | edit source]- cut accurate angles in wood and soft metal/plastic
Vacuum Cleaner
[edit | edit source]- needed so very soon
Test Equipment
[edit | edit source]Storage scope
[edit | edit source]Hot air rework station
[edit | edit source]- Makes it easy to undo solder, and also can do soldering on small parts
Stereo microscope
[edit | edit source]We have one. It lives in one of the cubby holes.
Spare Parts / Junk
[edit | edit source]Printers
[edit | edit source]- good source of stepper motors, slide rails and print heads
Assorted / grab bag components
[edit | edit source]- LEDs, 8-segment (and more) displays,
- capacitors, resistors (of course!), wire, various ICs (and associated datasheets), parts catalogs, etc.
Miscellaneous other
[edit | edit source]- Mice (optical and otherwise), old disk drives
- pagers, cell phones, random displays
- other computers stuff
Teaching
[edit | edit source]- Two or more small projectors (Jan 2016)
- 7+ reliable laptops running some Linux distribution (Jan 2016)