Recycled Electronics Workbench

An overview of my primarily recycled electronics workbench task.

It’s attainable to make a usable electronics workbench space with not a great deal of space or cost.

When I created an place of work in a spare bedroom in my residence, I at first established it up for use with computer workstations. I wrapped a desk all-around the again wall of the space with my Personal computer in one particular corner and my Unix workstation in the other corner.

I had a tiny bit of electronics equipment that little by little ended up in entrance of the Unix procedure. Past summer, I resolved I essential to revamp my tiny bit of desk space into a far more usable electronics function bench and one thing that would allow for me to far more quickly shoot online video from.

Then the task snowballed from there. Just after cleansing off the desk best, I resolved I need to end painting the wall in my new colour plan. Then I had an outdated shelf that I took out of another space that I reused over the bench.

Then I essential some lighting, so I added some LED strip lighting underneath:

I also swapped my outdated CFL magnified function mild over to 12V LEDs:

And I established up a 12VDC electricity stage driven by a DC-DC buck regulator, that will eventually be run off my solar battery lender:

I made use of a scrap of outdated anti-static mat from a nearby electronics corporation to style a personalized fit function floor. That was seamed with black Shoe Goo adhesive and electrically joined with smaller aluminum strips pop-riveted among the segments. I had to do this because my scrap of content was not huge adequate to fit my odd formed desk best. By reducing two rectangular parts out of the content, I only made use of about 50 percent of it.

I re-purposed an outdated observe swing arm into a awesome soldering station. On one particular corner is my PanaVise with PCB holder,. On another corner is a established of encouraging arms, held in put with two exceptional earth magnets embedded in the anti-static mat on best. Then I have space for my USB microscope. I can thrust that out of the way when not essential and can rotate any corner to the entrance for accessibility.

I then had a scrap of pegboard in the garage that I reduce to fit earlier mentioned the bench best. It’s painted in the same white colour as the ceiling in the space, so all the colors coordinate.

About the only new products obtained for this task were being the four ft. lengthy outlet strip, the pegboard extras and the LEDs for the magnified mild. Every thing else was recycled or remaining over from another task, so I assume the full price tag was about US$50.

If you have any inquiries on facts of the task, I did shoot additional online video of some of the steps that I can put up if you will find interest. Here is how I designed the wrist strap attachment:

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