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