Electronics Group

This is a page to properly organise the Electronics Group and the electronics area that we might end up with.

Workshop colour: PCB Mask Green, #008C4A

Members

• Velyks
• Spike

Equipment

Soldering Stations

• Each soldering station should have:
  • OKI/Metcal PS-900 Iron and Power supply
  • OKI/Metcal PS-900 Stand, sponge, and tip cleaner
  • A variety of suitable tips
  • Hot Air gun
  • Solder sucker
  • Cutting mat (for cutting, not soldering)
  • Heat-proof soldering mat (for soldering, not cutting)
  • Side cutters
  • Wire strippers
  • Anti-static tweezers
  • Vaccuum pick-up tool
  • Helping hands
  • Magnifying lamps
  • Fan or Fume extractor
• Additionally shared between them we should have:
  • Reflow oven
  • Desoldering gun
  • PCB holder (Maybe one small, one large)
  • Video microscope
  • Solder paste dispenser
  • Hot glue gun
  • A large whiteboard
  • Small screwdrivers and other misc tools

Test Equipment

• Digital Oscilloscope
• Analogue Oscilloscope
• Logic analyser (Maybe a few of the knockoff USB ones?)
• Not-Fluke multimeters
• Capacitance Meter (Might be included in the multimeter?)
• DC Electronic Load
• Small bench power supplies (100w)
• Big bench power supply
• Signal/Function generator
• Component tester
• Plenty of hookup leads

Consumables

• Solder, Leaded in various sizes
• Solder paste (?)
• Wire
  • Hookup/breadboard wire in lots of pretty colours
  • Multi-core in various gauges
• Heatshrink sleeving
• Flux pens
• Small and medium sized breadboards
• Flux and other cleaners (isopropyl?)
• Drywipe markers

Components

Need to keep these stocked up and replenished regularly

Training

We should offer some! Possible subjects...

• Workshop introduction (How not to break everything)
• Basic soldering
• Advanced soldering (SMD, hot air, reflow etc.)
• Basic/Advanced electronics
• Arduino/Microcontroller programming