Workstations 0_0
Updated 3/4/2025
One of the most important factors in being a productive and creative maker is your environment!
I've had a lot of places to build things, program, and work on electronics, I feel the labs are almost art
in of themselves! This page is dedicated to workstations and great rooms and desks!
To the right is the glorious Wireless Club room, which I am the facilities manager
for!! In this photo, there's a lot of work happening, including the building of a giant yagi antenna!
My room in Boston is the best! My collection of components, lab bench equipment, projects, and decor
keep me inspired and wanting to build things. This is where most of my projects are done these days!
I scrounge everything I can, so many things I got for free from being thrown away, like the computer monitors, TVs,
extra desktops, some lab bench equipment, etc. I also pick up a lot of components and tools at the MIT swapfest.
The most expensive piece of equipment I have here is the $600 oscilloscope which I bought new. Then the large multi-function power/counter/multimeter/functionGen I got for the measly price of $10. Talk about a deal. The rest I got for completely free!
Some components and projects, did you know people at swap fest sell supercaps for $1 each??
I love these bulletin boards, I have a bunch of them to hang up anything from electronics to datasheets.
The bulletin on my far wall is covered in art, posters, and random memories.
My desk in Boulder, Colorado is pretty underpowered, but functional! It's a good budget setup, with my homemade lab bench supply and 3D-printed organizers!
Organization! Spend time on doing it, like 3D printing a SMD resistor organizer, and you'll spend less time searching for resistors in the future!
Wireless club has so, so much unorganized parts, this set of drawers is a rare example of a very nicely organized space for ICs!
More Wireless club craziness! These lab bench oscilloscopes, network analyzers, power supplies, function generators, etc. are super handy! But they're old as the hills! Some of the oscilloscopes literally run Windows 98.
The Wireless Club soldering station is really nice as well, stuff for reflow, expensive irons, a microscope, and check out all the SMD resistor reels hanging above it!
I lived for 6 months in Ann Arbor in the wonderful ICC! I lived in the
Nakamura and Luther socialist co-op houses during my time there. They are amazing places! I was somewhat of
the fixer/handyman in the community. Here's my desk there!
I spent a lot of time in Ann Arbor at the All Hands Active makerspace, which is another
amazing go-to spot in the area. They have the biggest laser cutter in Michigan! They have all the old drawers
from Radio Shack when it closed down, so they have component drawers with prices still on!
When I was living in Northern Ireland, I was just starting getting into electronics seriously.
My setup was very poor, but I could practice on the basics, like a 555, basic inductors and
capacitors, etc. Check out the nice organizer I got!
There's some pretty crazy decor in this room. Some of these items were actually Eli's, like the
hacksaw. This place is where I was hand-winding tesla coils!
Funny story, one time the school actually looked in my room and got mad. They cited that I had quote:
"copper wires and gadgets" in my room which was grounds for a full search. They accidentally went
to the room with the same number one apartment down, which happened to be the room of my good friend
Kaan who totally covered for me lol!
When I lived in Willis Hall at Northeastern, I had a pretty small space, I was in a
forced triple, meaning three kids in a two-person room. I still had an alright setup, and
I got a surprising amount done! My roommates may have recorded some unfortunate videos of me,
implying that I was making a bomb...
Good parties were had in this room! We used to throw a rager a week! People would check out that
desk setup and say stuff like "Leo tase meee" or whatever :c