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Mobile toolkit for tinkering with electronics while I'm away from home?
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: Fixed_Until_Broken on July 18, 2021, 09:12:32 pm ---Even if you don't have a roommate you will probably make the dorm master unhappy.
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They won't care unless what you're doing causes damage to the room, creates a fire hazard, or disturbs neighbors. Even then, things like heavy hammering can still be done by going outside to where the noise won't bother anyone.
Refrigerator:
--- Quote from: Fixed_Until_Broken on July 18, 2021, 09:12:32 pm ---Don't try to do repairs in a dorm or your roommate is going to hate you. Even if you don't have a roommate you will probably make the dorm master unhappy.
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Fortunately my roommate is chill, and my DIY stuff doesn't bother him much.
--- Quote from: Fixed_Until_Broken on July 18, 2021, 08:20:33 pm ---What aspects of electronics interest you? A bunch of microcontroller dev boards, logic analyzers, and breadboard stuff won't do you much good if RF is your interest.
If I built a mobile kit for myself I would be looking at a USB power soldering iron like ts80, USB Oscope/logic analyzer. I decent battery-powered DMM. basic hand tools. Basic consumables like solder, flux, wire, and solvents. But the stuff I picked is because I am into repair. I would not have a set of components I carried around but I would just what I needed as I needed if I didn't have a way storing parts.
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I'd like to learn some more on micros but i also like discrete stuff.
I'm not much into RF and i don't think that RF can be breadboarded very easily, manhattan style prototyping would work but that requires soldering. :-//
I want to avoid soldering for now because i don't want to take my soldering station with me. I have a 30W weller but it's one of those dumb soldering irons and takes forever to heat up.
Currently i'm thinking to take all my micros (i don't have that many anyways), my logic analyzer, two DMM's, a pair of breadboards, resistor kit, perhaps my scope.
Maybe a couple LCDs, some encoders, pots. And a bag of gereral purpose MOSFETs, i have some aliexpress fakes that should be fine for breadboard stuff.
Too bad i don't have a capacitor kit to take with me also.
Shouldn't take too much space imo.
Ian.M:
Hmm. An Analog Discovery 2 would probably save you humping and having to find space to store a lot of kit when breadboarding stuff. Get it with a student discount while you can!
Its got 2 scope channels (which can function as DVMs with +/-25V range), a 2 channel AWG, logic analyser, pattern generator, and + & - 0.V=>5V supplies, all in one pod.
That lets you get away with only one (decent, full spec) DMM as you can always take simultaneous voltage measurements on your breadboard with the Analog Discovery.
On the soldering side of things you certainly wont be doing extensive assembly in dorms, but you do need *SOME* soldering capability - either a Portasol Technic gas iron or a TS100 or possibly something USB C powered - just to fix cables & terminals, mod solder jumpers etc.
rstofer:
As said, a laptop and an Analog Discovery 2 makes a decent portable lab. Depending on your interests, a separate power supply may be necessary. It could be rechargeable batteries, wall warts or a bench supply.
https://store.digilentinc.com/analog-discovery-2-100msps-usb-oscilloscope-logic-analyzer-and-variable-power-supply/
DrG:
This guy did a pretty nice job I thought. Although I did not check it out really thoroughly, it looks pretty darn good. May even work in a dorm (doubling as a table when not on the go).
Portable Workbench & mini Lab
https://hackaday.io/project/9098-portable-workbench-mini-lab
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