Showoff: your lab working area?

[Gad_Ofir]

Hi all just a small fun topic lets show off our labs/DIY work area

• for fun
• and also to learn from each other, what tools and what not
• cool projects that are laying around
• and just to show off all the things that came from China

i will start…
i took this picture after i did some organization…Instagram photo
it’s hardly its normal state most of the time it looks like… don’t let me go there … just terrible
if the topic will catch up promise one ugly photo also

[Thedannymullen (Danny mullen)]

A lab working area? What a conveince… lol

My lab is a laptop and tray.

[matt1 (Skinah)]

You have a tray? What a good idea to move the junk out of sight on. LOL Mines just a pile of junk that rarely moves.

[Gad_Ofir]

hhh i use to work like this also , it was half hour just to get the things back in the closet
then i had a box , but a tray is way cooler

[allen]

I still have a box. and my wife dining room table. ( with lots of screams LOL)

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@Thedannymullen

A lab working area? What a conveince… lol

That was exactly my reaction. I have a couple of boxes that I pull down and have to sort though every time I want to do something. I have a silicon mat and use what ever table or flat surface is most convenient at the time.

For tools I have:

• Cheap but pretty good soldering iron
• Cheap helping hands
• Silicon baking mat to protect surfaces
• An old license plate to further protect surfaces from the soldering iron and solder
• Jeweler’s needle nose pliers (their great for making the little round pig tails on wires)
• Wire cutters/strippers
• One of those solder sucker upper thingies (am are gud at DIY electro-thingies)
• All kinds of random parts because apparently you can’t buy just one or two of anything so I end up with like 99 capacitors because I had one project that needed one
• Harbor Fright multi-meter

Eventually, as time and budget allows, I’m converting part of my garage to a wood working shop. I plan on adding an electronics station if there is room.

@allen

I still have a box. and my wife dining room table. ( with lots of screams LOL)

I highly recommend the silicone baking mats. I’ve dropped the iron tip down and it didn’t even phase the mat, let alone the table.

[noppes123 (Ron)]

@rlkoshak

onverting part of my garage to a wood working shop. I plan on adding an electronics station

Just make sure you handle dust properly…

[noppes123 (Ron)]

OK, sorry guys, but I do have an actual ‘lab room’…

…after some serious clean-up, actually.

[Gad_Ofir]

well that’s Nicceee
love the ice cube trays !!!

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@noppes123

Just make sure you handle dust properly…

Why should I start doing that now at this stage in life?

[noppes123 (Ron)]

@rlkoshak

Why should I start doing that now at this stage in life?

I wasn’t concerned about you, but the electronics equipment and parts…

[noppes123 (Ron)]

@Gad_Ofir

love the ice cube trays

They are actually very convenient for sorting parts while (dis)assembling (not so much for SMD stuff, though).

[Kim_Andersen]

@matt1

Mines just a pile of junk that rarely moves.

I second that one I dont even dare to show a picture of my desk… It´s in an “american order”. Everything is on top
Small clues… My Zigbee Trust sensor is standing of a few empty boxes from other gagdets devices… Two other motion sensores are placed on top of one of my 8" speaker montiors (I use the monitors for music production). On top of the other speaker monitor, I have two POE switches, (one is switched off atm). Have quite a few spare parts lying around the desk, as well as at small Velbus kit for testing… In all, it´s all a total mess… but hey, I know where everything is placed… hmm, I think/hope

[Gad_Ofir]

so somthing like a month ago i ordered this