Building Your Own Electronics Lab: A Guide to Setting Up Your Own Gadget Workshop
- Length: 184 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Apress
- Publication Date: 2012-08-01
- ISBN-10: 1430243864
- ISBN-13: 9781430243861
- Sales Rank: #1270538 (See Top 100 Books)
You’ll learn which parts and tools are indispensable no matter what type projects you’re working on: which soldering irons are best, which tools, cables, and testing equipment you’ll need. You’ll also learn about different chips, boards, sensors, power sources, and which ones you’ll want to keep on hand.Finally, you’ll learn how to assemble everything for the type of lab best suited to your needs. If you need to carry everything to your local makerspace, you can build the Portable Lab. If you plan to tinker at home or in the garage, there is the Corner Lab. If you’re going to run your own local makerspace or you need to set up a lab to teach others, there is the Small-Group Lab.
What you’ll learn
- Essential components of every electronics lab, and how to get them without going broke
- The differences between types of electronics parts, accessories, and tools you may need
- Designing a lab for portability
- Designing a lab to save space
- Designing a lab to share space and resources
Who this book is for
Electronics hobbyists, Arduino enthusiasts, hardware hackers, ham radio tinkerers, or anyone wanting to build their own makerspace.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Planning Your Electronics Workshop
Chapter 2. Building Your Tool Chest
Chapter 3. Parts – Both Spare and Not-so-Spare
Chapter 4. Portable Mini-Lab
Chapter 5. The Corner Lab
Chapter 6. The Small-Group Lab
Chapter 7. Appendix: Getting Started with Tool-Building
