GEAR

Here’s our list of necessary gear for your small lab, be it the Manufacturing Engineering department in any research/manufacturing Company, or just your Maker’s basement/garage lab.

A Linux PC – UBUNTU or, for the fancy ones, Linux Mint

Software:

Arduino IDE

KiCAD for electronics schematics and PCB design

TI (TM) TINA for circuit simulation

Breadboards

pin-wires for breadboards

Power Supplies: USB-based, or your own. 5 Volts, 1 A minimum

Electronic components: you want a good set of passive components (resistors, capacitors, inductors), and a good set of active, starting from diodes, transistors, and going to ICs as needed.

you also want some user interface (LCD, LEDs, buttons, dip switches, etc)

Sensors

soldering

sooner or later you gotta learn that.

measure

multimeter

oscilloscope