My Electronics Lab in Detail

Here’s a detailed description of my electronics lab, painstakingly condensed from three lab benches into one.

Lab Bench Main Working Surface

The left side of the bench is devoted to project work, debugging, testing, etc. The right side of the bench is devoted to soldering, assembly, etc. You might notice this is opposite from the layout I had in November. It isn’t critical, depends on your situation and surrounding walls, furniture, etc.

Linear Power Supply, Triple Output

Digital Oscilloscope, 150MHz

Oscilloscope Probes and Accessories

Panavise Circuit Board / Work Holder

Fluke Current and Temperature Sensors

Calipers, Digital and Analog

Digital Multimeters

Phone and Lan Cabling Testers

Hakko 474 Desoldering Tool

Hakko 936 Soldering Iron

Korean Hot Air Soldering Tool

Chemicals and Solder

Stereoscope

Magnifiers

Misc. Accessories for Lab Equipment

Low-Temp Hot Air Gun (for Heat Shrink)

Tool Drawer, Right

Tool Drawer, Center

Tool Drawer, Left

Lab Bench, Underneath Storage

Dremel Tool with Accessories

Electric Battery Powered Drills

Arbor Press with Accessories (for making IDC ribbon cables)

USB Microscope

Microchip PIC ICD2 Emulators

Serial Link Snoopers and Logic Analyzer

Misc. Lab Programmers

Chip Programmer w/sockets

Automatic Cable Tester

Eval Board, NXP LPC17xx

Eval Board, Microchip PIC

Eval Board, Bunnie Huang’s NET-TV HDMI Overlay

Sony DV Recorder

Stepper Motors and Shaft Encoder

Portable Battery Operated Chip Programmers

Unsorted Misc. Parts

Cables, Video and Audio

Various Computer Cables

AC Line Cords

Cables, Exceptionally Long

Label Makers

Power Adaptors

Power Bricks

Lab Bench, Upper Shelf Parts Storage

Several parts drawers are arranged on the upper shelf to hold various electronic parts commonly used in embedded systems development. Resistors, capacitors and inductors are stored by value. Other mechanical and hardware accessories are grouped together by function.