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Mobile toolkit for tinkering with electronics while I'm away from home?
Refrigerator:
I study in a university about 100km away from home. Away from home means away from my lab, where all my equipment and parts are.
Since i don't have anything to tinker with at my uni dorm i just waste my free time away and i don't want that.
There are also no hacker spaces of any sorts.
So i would like to make myself a small mobile toolkit that i could throw in my car and whip out whenever i have the urge to play around with electronics.
But what should i take? How big should it be?
MOSFETs, resistors, caps, inductors? Microcontrollers? Dev boards? Breadboards?
What about a DMM, maybe two? My VDS1022 scope ir pretty slim, should i take it also?
I don't want it to be able to do everything because at that point i'd be carrying my entire lab with me.
And i don't want it to be bulky because it would take a bunch of space and would be a bother to carry back and forth.
But i still want it to be reasonably versatile so that i could explore any idea i might have at the time.
What do you guys think i should take on the road with me to keep me busy?
coppercone2:
the most interesting thing about being mobile and having tools is radio. probobly building receivers is the best you can do on a uni budget with minimal tool and part count. and you also most often use earbuds for testing so you don't need complex equipment. there is a ton of simple circuits to study, and it meshes nicely with a laptop and arduino, and it looks kind of cool
i did many more miles then that back and forth every weekend so if you just don't care about campus life then try to get 4 days a week and go home and cook for your parents or something on the weekend
getting everything done in 4 days and driving alot is interesting in its own right
Fixed_Until_Broken:
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.
coppercone2:
the problem with repair is that there is a ton of mechanic work that goes into it usually, thats not dorm friendly
Fixed_Until_Broken:
--- Quote from: coppercone2 on July 18, 2021, 09:09:21 pm ---the problem with repair is that there is a ton of mechanic work that goes into it usually, thats not dorm friendly
--- End quote ---
Absolutely correct! I was just explaining what would be in my kit and why. 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.
Edit: The point I was trying to make is without knowing what he is interested no one can actually give useful feedback. Its a useless thread without that info. I was just trying to say that in a nicer less direct manner.
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