Wishlist
Wishlist
If you want the space to buy something, add it to the list. If you need it urgently you should probably mail the list and prod people.
Books/Magazines/Subscriptions
If you can, add an amazon link or equivalent please!
- Make Magazine + back issues
- I have some back issues that I can donate. --Teabot 10:06, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
- 2600 Magazine + back issues
- Making things talk (And all the other make books)
- A copy of The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill for the space might be good. --Steff 16:07, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers
- Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits
Equipment
If you provide links, things will arrive quicker. Suppliers are preferred in this order:
- Farnell (we have an account with them)
- Amazon (next-day with Russ's Amazon Prime account)
- Everything else
Sub-£100
- A fire extinguisher [1] note that these are easily and cheaply available secondhand but have usually passed their testing date (which should be done yearly). Suggest we budget for 2 or 3 of different types, + maintenance or regualar replacement.
- Unisex toilet signs
- Whiteboard markers
- Crockery drying rack
- Center punch - various
- Dremel drill bits of various sizes
- Hacksaw blades
- G clamps
- Gas soldering iron
- Gas heat gun
- Laser Printer [2]
- Dremel circular saw [3]
- USB 1-Wire interface and 1-Wire temperature sensors. [4]
- Decent set square
- Vice/mole grips
- Lock jaw
- Socket set [5]
- Wood saw [6]
- Bow saw [7]
- Tenon saw [8]
- Mitre block/box
- Kitchen towel and/or blue paper towels
- Claw hammer [9]
- Screwdrivers, large and small [10], [11]
- Spirit level [12]
- Long extension lead [13]
- Conical drill bits [14]
- Flatscreen computer displays. Extending your lappy desktop makes development a lot easier. Available extra cheap 2nd hand on ebay.
- Metal desk vices (We have one, but it's itty-bitty)
- An iron [15]
- Sheet metal / PCB guillotine
- Laser safety glasses for various spectrum.
- http://www.orbitmicro.com/global/pcilx4-5-p-12865.html but not until i've checked that it will work and also fiddled with interfaceing the HP1650A to a computer JasperWallace
- possibly this: http://www.orbitmicro.com/global/pci2mpci-02-p-793.html and/or this: http://www.orbitmicro.com/global/mpci-flex-p-795.html I think my soekris net4521 has the pci card and minipci cards on the same pci bus? If so the pci/HP1650 card above would be fine. (But thats 5V? and the Soekris is 3.3v only iirc?). JasperWallace
- Plastic boxes x 20
- A bunch of these and suitable headers
- Some more cheap kits for newbies
- Laminator (I'm pretty sure mine is in the space. Somewhere. Unless some twat chucked it out. --jonty)
- (Bike) Wheel trueing stand [16]
- More USB hubs
Sub-£500
- Whiteboard and pens! buy make Or maybe build this blackboard table?
- Pillar Drill £125 auction
- SMT Oven
- Bench sander
- Box-pan brake (for fabricating robot brackets) [17]
- PCB through-hole riveter
- PCB etching tanks
- MIG welder
- Electric Arc welder
- Angle grinder
- A decent microscope (Digital would be nice)
- I have one of these, 40x Magnification, Mirror, Not digital though. Can drop it off next time I come (Joe)
- While Joe's Motic would provide much hacker's delight, a long-arm stereo microscope would be more useful for working on small electronics.
- Bandsaw
Over £500
- Lathe
- Laser cutter
- CNC Milling Machine
- Computerised sewing machine
Components
See the Components page.