Category:Electronics and Robotics

From Artisan's Asylum

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Electronics and Robotics
Fun with electrons
Solder stations and work benches
General Info
Shop Colors
Shop Rules	Basic_electronics_safety_rules
Managed By	Andrew Anselmo, Michael Beach
Hours	Same as membership hours
Operational Status of Tools	Summary for all Electronics and Robotics tools
Tool Maintenence Tickets	All open tickets for Electronics and Robotics tools

Contents 1 Resources Available 2 Electronics Shop Safety 3 General Rules 4 Shop Layout 5 Photos

Resources Available

• Eight soldering stations (donated by ThermalTronics)
• Two autonomous Pololu Zumo Robots (donated by Ed Rubesch and the IDE Center of Thailand)
• Various DVM's, power supplies, and signal generators
• Several oscilloscopes
• Various hand tools (screwdrivers, pliers, cutters, and tools for working on electronic equipment)
• Bench mounted circular magnifier with light
• Bench mounted stereo microscope for surface mount work
• Bench mounted stereo microscope with camera
• Small lab oven
• Large stock of 5V and other surface mount components (TTL, CMOS)
• Large stock of components; switches, servo motors; speakers; DC motors; connectors; LEDs; resistors; capacitors; diodes
• Large stock of solid, stranded, and multiconductor wire
• Various cables of all kinds
• Three desktop machines with audiovisual capability, with Arduino IDE and Arduino UNOs for testing purposes (Windows and Ubuntu)
• Raspberry Pi station (monitor, cable, mouse, keyboard, power supply)
• OtherMill (othermill.co) for CNC circuit making
• Laser printer and flatbed scanner
• Wall projector for classes
• Wednesday night Circuit Hacking Night

If you want to donate things to E&R, check out [1].

Electronics Shop Safety

See basic shop rules and basic E&R rules.

General Rules

• Classroom and Asylum events take precedence over projects.
• Do not leave projects unlabeled - unlabeled things will be put in the Drift Bin.
• One table to a person when working on a project - don't spread out unless absolutely necessary.
• Do not remove parts drawers; only take what you need.
• Clean up after yourself; put tools back in their correct places.
• Do not remove multimeters, oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc. without permission from shop leads.

Shop Layout

This is the general shop layout:

Photos

There are ten workbenches.