EEVblog #51 - A tour of the EEVblog Electronics Lab

[XTYNoLuck]

thank you...

[Kalkaekie]

Really enjoyed the tour. Thanks !

[BrentBXR]

Two words. Im. Hooked... Great stuff dave keep it up. Hopfully u make enough from being ututbe partner to afford more goodies to show us, teardown, and destroy.

Dave. I really want to see some hardware hacking. Bus pirate stuff. Show us how to take old boards from different things and use them with our own projects.

[EEVblog]

@BrentBXR Thanks. I'm not really the hacker type like some others when it comes to electronics. I prefer to design things from scratch.

[philip2go]

neat set up... wonder if you are just a hobbyist or actual repairman... where is your work?

[EEVblog]

@philip2go This is my hobby lab. I'm not a repairman, I'm a design engineer.

[thewii552]

1 dislike = someone who wants a Gossen meter

[harindam]

Y didnt you thank your wife for holding the camera? :D

[blackstar2008]

If you were to sell your lab, complete with everything, how much would it cost?

[harindam]

@blackstar2008 100000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­00$

Cuz every enthusiast cherish FIRST equipments they got.

[theroofisunderwater]

u keep saying you only have really basic but you have more stuff than my university standard lab does! makes me feel bad =(

[raystem69]

I love this guy! He's so enthusiastic. Glad I subscribed. Look forward to all your excellent videos.

[vusiliyK]

I wish i saw this sooner. ANd this guy is awesome.

[nibus126]

most useful device was a hummer -) for quick disassemble, very nice setup btw.

[Schmiki24]

Wow, 10 femtoamps? When do you use that kinf of value?

[Minifig666]

I don't know how you fit all that stuf in there, my room is massive and I still don't have enough room!

[EEVblog]

@Minifig666 I don't, it's a mess as a result. What you see here is after a wife dictated tidy-up :->

[superdau]

Ahhh, the storage cabinets with parts from eons ago. I have those, too. The times when everything with 3 legs was a transistor and the inner workings of most parts a mystery.

I envy the lab equipment and the lab itself. I have to do stuff on my all-purpose desk. Fortunately I'm on the way to a real workshop. We are switching from oil to gas heating, so there's a tank room to be put to good use! Can't wait for it!

[TheEPROM9]

I need a work shop like that, maybe one day when I have my own house.

[dmackey828]

Dave, Excellent video, I was wondering what the lab looked like. Thanks for sharing.

[Tda7000]

Nice! I got some good tips and ideas from this. Thanks

[Atmelfan]

Tiny? Then you haven't seen my lab! It's like 3 to 4 times smaller!

[wa4aos]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the great video and a look at your lab. I have a 30 * 12 foot building that I insulated, heated and provided AC plus LOTS of light. You can see one of my benches at my web site w w w dot dsmlabs dot  com

I have 3 bench's set up and the one on my web page is for vintage analog receivers. I have another for solid state and digital. and one for RF design and analysis. It's great to have equipment and tools to play with.

Best regards from the US,

Glenn

[EEVblog]

@wa4aos Awesome.Send your pics to The AmpHour Workbench of the Week!

[kwakkwak123]

Great video, thanks for letting us have a look! I hope to one day have a lab just like yours, and have the knowledge and experience you have. I'm an electrical engineering student, I love electronics, but compared to you, it seems im waaaay behind!

[gamccoy]

I would love to have that setup. In my previous career I had access to a full-blown lab. Now that I'm in my second career, I miss it. I'd like very much to build a workspace for myself in the basement. I just need a little time and disposable income. This layout is quite inspirational and I'm sure I'll copy many aspects of it.

[pokiri446]

awesomeeeee!!!!!

you are the pro

[pokiri446]

awesomeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

[nostromo387]

Hi Dave,

thank you very much for a look behind the scenes! I get my first solder iron with the age of six from my parents and my todays workplace looks very similar to yours :o)

Best wishes from a "natural born solder" from germany,

Martin

[EEVblog]

@nostromo387 All lab's tend to gravitate toward a certain look!

[williefleete]

nice video. i dont quite meet those specs i need an oscilloscope and a decent bench etc

[EatBigCookies]

got a rigol 10152E, cheapy 2MHz function generator, atten dual rail DC power supply, an old but good quality dick smith multimeter and a handy portable drawer cabinet off jaycar. funny thing is i still barely started working on it all wish i started and got my lab setup earlier.

Fiddling around with 74 series logic gate ICs, trying to make switches and led arrays like the PMODs for the atmega64 we where taught on at uni up until my aurduino uno order arrives with some other components can't wait

[billu8660]

@ EEVblog, i bought UTD4202C 200MHZ DSO @ 98000 rs pakistani, dave ur opinion/exp with this brand

[quadcam24v]

Great lab, damn I need to get more multimeters!

[amartinjoe]

plastic storage bins.....always gotta have 'em!

[ft790]

Great stuff Dave.

You mention you started studying seriously when you were 15. More info on your education would be great for a future blog. Or if you have already covered it maybe you could point me to the video? I just discovered you with Kindle teardown :)

Cheers

[johnmartin1024]

Beauty! I loved it.

[gmcjetpilot]

Dave do you have any little EEVbloggers running around? (aka kids)

[ttk1opc]

You built that resistor at age 11? 

[shodanxx]

I'm sure you got more to say about your lab !

little things like cotton swabs and acetone, kelvin smd clips and maybe a heat gun or reflow oven/bagels oven !

[Zed1967]

I was expecting to see a old AVO Mk7 or Mk8 tucked away, that's all I used in the Royal Navy during the mid 80's, they're a chunky bit of kit but full of character and they have that Frankenstein's laboratory look about them which I love.

[Kankki1]

Great setup! Did you build that 40A PSU yourself, too? It looks really good!

[kooookky]

Cool!!!

You have a lot of multimeters. Ha ha!!

:D

[ishman1]

You bought a multimeter when you were 8? Wow. Great tour.

[EEVblog]

Yep, I think it cost me about $20 at the time, all the money I'd ever saved!

[stormbytes]

Hey Dave! Love the tour! Yeah the red little trays look like dissection heaven!

[Wizard4592]

Thanks for the tour. It's very interesting to look at other people's benches. They are all so similar.

[dragonblood99]

Does anyone know how to do a factory reset on a fluke 789

[legion2]

are all your shirts some sort of engineering figure? hahahaha

[jacobbiljo]

Thanks for the tour. Id really recommend the Greenlee voltage detector rather than the fluke because the fluke is not sensitive enough so if you are not extremely close to the wire it wont go off sometimes, can be dangerous!

[davidbball13]

Yet another excellent video. Keep 'em coming.

I just got a Digital Soldering Station for Christmas. A XYTRONIC station. Ever heard of it? I love it so far.

[Albinorama]

Thanks Dave for the tour =D. Nice setup and good for taking ideas.

[frank26080115]

got a fire extinguisher in there?

[1710WL]

@frank26080115 No, he keeps a couple of glasses of water nearby that he can throw/knock over! ;)

[jaspers22]

How many years have you been into electronics Dave?

[EEVblog]

Around 30 years or so.

[enliteneer]

I like those smd kits that have the prototyping parts!

Where can I find those online? What's typically included, and how much do they usually run?

[japroach]

Go to digikey, click GO to search, and scroll down to "Kits". They can be cheaper than buying individual parts.

Ebay has lots too.

[frhotek]

well...the PC scope is probably good enough for most things; nice analog scopes are very expensive; however there are a few nice instruments on eBay once-in-awhile. you can also use data collection boxes instead of real instruments: from dataq and mcc.

if you're an engineer, don't worry about soldering as there are tons of students who will do that for you! everyone else:

I recommend visiting the NASA workmanship sites to look at quality electronics work and how it's done.

[brail207]

Thanks for the tour Dave very nice setup

[rasz]

Im guessing the gray box on the left of soldering irons is a Soldering Smoke Absorber. Very important part of the lab .. unless you like to poison yourself :)

[Forssa1]

Do you harvest/savage components? I can see why you wouldn't but I love it!

[VeXorian1337]

Hey Dave, can you recommend a cheap, but efficient and reliable oscilloscope? I'm studying EE right now and I'm in need of such an instrument.

[EEVblog]

How cheap is "cheap"?

Analog or digital?

The Rigol DS1052E is the best value digital scope on the market for just under $400.

Good used analog scopes (Tek, HP, or Philips for example) can be had for very cheap prices on ebay, but it's buyer-beware.

Forget PC based scopes as someone else mentioned, get yourself a real bench scope.

[GRIM2594]

Very cool! I can't wait to get into my core classes and start doing this kind of thing on my own!

Thanks for showing us around!

[baddspella]

waw man cool setup

[migsantiago]

Man, that's a good lab, even if it's tiny. I wish I had all the stuff you have.

With all those spare multimeters you should make a contest or something like that and give me out for free, hehe

nice video :D

[emus1attack]

another great video.

lol, I wish I had a space that nice, I've only got a cheap radioshack multimeter, an ok soldering iron, and a small parts bin(which was full the day after I got it, now I've got parts all over the floor in my room, in small bags). Though I'm only 16, so I've got some time to expand it.(I'm hoping to get an oscilloscope soon.)

[pauloninja85]

Very nice,i was hoping for a tour like that,keep up the good work,nice shirt btw :)