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What EE/EM research can be done at home any more ?
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SiliconWizard:
Just define "research".
Some stuff will require only basic equipment, while others could require investments in tens of grands.
Also, some pieces of equipment can't be used without a proper certification, such as x-ray machines (depending probably on your country.)

You can design ICs at home if you have the cash, using MPW services. Or do some crowdfunding if you don't have the cash.

CatalinaWOW:

--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on January 30, 2023, 11:59:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on January 30, 2023, 04:45:51 pm --- Einsteins requirements were time, pencil and paper (plus access to the research journals of the day). 

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Don't also forget he also had a burning passion for it and no one to tell him that what he was doing was bad.

Enthusiasm can get you through any roadblocks provided you have it in the first place and its difficult to keep ahold of it too.

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While I generally agree, I have found that burning passion is far more common than inspiration or genius.  Over my life I have met people who passionately invested their savings into pneumatic cars (with tanks refilled at the "free" (at that time) tire filling pumps, and someone who was going to harness a hidden form of free energy called Coriolis force and other equally silly things.  There have been many others with less crazy dreams. 

But that is OK.  If it is your passion and you are satisfied pursuing it, it doesn't really matter whether it makes sense or not.  It may even be commercially successful.  People have made fair amount of money pushing solar roof tiles and solar pavement and special audiophile capacitors and cables.  And hardware stores and markets are full of better mousetraps.
RoGeorge:
It wasn't exactly pencil and paper.  The Michelson–Morley experiment and its negative result played a very important role.
MathWizard:
There's a lot of early experiment that would still be hard to do, without a lot of resources. Like the experiment where the guy figured out the charge on an electron, using basically dust grains in air, with static charge, vs gravity.

Someone could make a really cool museum with all the early science experiments. And add in the early technology too, like at the Museum of Computer History , iirc the name.
tszaboo:

--- Quote from: MathWizard on February 01, 2023, 03:31:36 am ---There's a lot of early experiment that would still be hard to do, without a lot of resources. Like the experiment where the guy figured out the charge on an electron, using basically dust grains in air, with static charge, vs gravity.

Someone could make a really cool museum with all the early science experiments. And add in the early technology too, like at the Museum of Computer History , iirc the name.

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Those museums totally exist.


You just have to travel a bit, since most of the scientific research in electronics were done in France, UK or Austro-Hungary in the 18-19th century.
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