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.
- Center punch - various
- Dremel drill bits of various sizes
- Hacksaw blades
- G clamps
- Gas soldering iron
- Gas heat gun
- Laser Printer [2]
Dremel flex shaft [3](We have a generic dremel-type one donated by Julian. It's in the generic dremel box.)- Dremel circular saw [4]
A screen for the projector- being donated by Adrian (I have retrieved an old slideshow screen from my parents. It's still usable but has a small tear, which I mended with duct tape .. I think the plastic is going brittle and it may not last long. I'll bring it down when I get a chance but suggest you look on freecycle for something newer - there are probably a few being dumped - artag)- USB 1-Wire interface and 1-Wire temperature sensors. [5]
- Decent set square
- Vice/mole grips
- Lock jaw
- Socket set [6]
- Wood saw [7]
- Bow saw [8]
- Tenon saw [9]
- Mitre block/box
- Kitchen towel and/or blue paper towels
- Claw hammer [10]
- Screwdrivers, large and small [11], [12]
- Spirit level [13]
- Extension leads etc [14]
- Conical drill bits [15]
- Flatscreen computer displays. Extending your lappy desktop makes development a lot easier. Available extra cheap 2nd hand on ebay.
- DIY SMT Oven. Cheap Option 1, Cheap Option 2, Cheap Option 3. I'm willing to co-ordinate a project to make one of these. --PaulR.
- Metal desk vices (We have one, but it's itty-bitty)
- Helium canister
- An iron [16]
- 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 [17]
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) [18]
- 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.
Over £500
- Lathe
- Laser cutter
- CNC Milling Machine
- Band saw
- Computerised sewing machine
- 100Mbps Fibre
Components
See the Components page.