Inspiring Electronics Labs
Our focus at The Working Centre's Computer Recycling program has been on building and repairing systems for low income earners in the Kitchener / Waterloo region, but one of the side projects some of our volunteers wanted to branch into was electronics. It started when I replaced our aging soldering iron with a finer (hotter) soldering pencil, and some flux. We moved the soldering station out to the component testing station where we have motherboards mounted on to the wall for testing components like video cards, memory, etc. (I'll post photos in another post)
To help inspire new ideas for the lab I googled Electronics Lab images and came up with the following labs:
This lab desk isn't very advanced organizational-wise, but it has a number of important components we're missing, including a good oscilloscope. Image from the Arizona State University Power Electronics lab.
I'm not usually fond of this tan coloured wood, but it seems to work well here. I like how some equipment is placed above the workstation and the station frames the work. I can see the shelves on the right coming in handy for small parts (capacitors, transistors, etc). Image from the University of Wyoming electrical & computer engineering lab.
This photo is from a class lab and it looks like it, but I like how clean everything is and the fact that there isn't a lot of electronics cluttering the workstation. Too cluttered a workstation is pretty uninspiring. The last image comes from a Pierce College Electronics Program run out of Los Angeles.
Our focus at The Working Centre's Computer Recycling program has been on building and repairing systems for low income earners in the Kitchener / Waterloo region, but one of the side projects some of our volunteers wanted to branch into was electronics. It started when I replaced our aging soldering iron with a finer (hotter) soldering pencil, and some flux. We moved the soldering station out to the component testing station where we have motherboards mounted on to the wall for testing components like video cards, memory, etc. (I'll post photos in another post)
To help inspire new ideas for the lab I googled Electronics Lab images and came up with the following labs:
This lab desk isn't very advanced organizational-wise, but it has a number of important components we're missing, including a good oscilloscope. Image from the Arizona State University Power Electronics lab.
I'm not usually fond of this tan coloured wood, but it seems to work well here. I like how some equipment is placed above the workstation and the station frames the work. I can see the shelves on the right coming in handy for small parts (capacitors, transistors, etc). Image from the University of Wyoming electrical & computer engineering lab.
This photo is from a class lab and it looks like it, but I like how clean everything is and the fact that there isn't a lot of electronics cluttering the workstation. Too cluttered a workstation is pretty uninspiring. The last image comes from a Pierce College Electronics Program run out of Los Angeles.
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