Mar 11, 2024 | Translating the Electronics Night meeting notes into a planning document.
I've taken the below notes and translated them into a planning document. Please click on the LINK HERE to be linked to the spreadsheet. Please let me know if anyone has more comments. Regards, Mark
| Area | Description | Activities | Equipment | Power / HVAC / Lighting Requirements | Adjacencies |
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| Whole E-Lab |
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| Fabrication & Assembly | - Individual work on projects
- Collaborative area that we can work face to face
- Space to work on microcontrollers and SBC projects
| - Assembly for small projects, putting pieces together and/or putting pieces into project boxes or containers (ie., rockets, robots, etc., etc.)
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| Testing | - Use of test equipment to measure performance of products
| - Testing of proto-type products
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| Demonstration | - Collaborative area that we can work face to face
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| Education | - Space for presentation of electrical concepts, technologies and equipment
- Collaborative learning area
- In-person/Virtual Meeting/Classroom
| - Soldering 101 events
- Take-a-part events
- Build-a-circuit events
- Home Automation Seminars
- Conduct dual format workshops
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| Storage | - Small Parts Storage (LEDs, SMT parts, resistors, capacitors, MOSFETs, etc.)
- Large Parts Storage (Project boxes, heat sinks, cableing, wire, etc.)
| - Sorting of parts
- Labeling of parts boxes
- Placing boxes in order
| - Cubbies and/or Racks
- (3 Grey Units)
- (1 Bin Rack)
- (6 tool boxes)
- (drone parts)
- (robot parts)
- Racks, Closets, Shelves
- (2 door cabinet)
- (10 Black & Yellow Boxes)
- (2 wire racks)
- (bookcase for equipment manuals)
- (large diameter shrink wrap and long tubes)
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| - Wholly within the Elab or immediately adjacent
- If located in Classroom, Classes can't block access to stuff in storage
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Assembly kit:
- Flush cutters
- Wire strippers
- Tweezers
- Dental picks
- Screwdrivers
- Bench sockets
- Small notebook
- Pens, pencils
Soldering station kit:
- Solder wire
- Solder station tips
- Solder suckers
- Braided wire
- Shrink wrap
- Flux dispensers
- Jeweler's magnifier
- Soldering station
- Sponges (natural & brillo)
- Tip tinner
List of potential classes or workshops:
- Home Automation
- Home Networking
- Raspberry Pi Projects
- Arduino Projects
- LoRa Projects
- Self-paced electronics projects
- Radio Projects
- Solar Projects
- CNC Foundation
Mar 7, 2024 | Electronics Night Meeting to discuss what Electronics Lab wants to be when relocated to Makersmiths-Leesburg downstairs
Attendees:
Oliver, Mark, Allon & Alisha
Notes
- Do a needs assessment first.
- Test Equipment - What test equipment do we want downstairs?
- Grounding Requirements - Avoidance of static electricity
- Wall warts - Standard set of 3, 5, 12 volt power supplies
- Set of banana cables separated into type
- Anti-static mats on each table
- Hot Air Rework Station
- Reflow Oven
- Power Supply (ies) - Single Output (30v 10a), Dilips’ Dual Output ( ??), (Two Leader Tracking power supplies and and one HP brand PSs)
- Signal Generators? 2 of them (??) - Questionable to keep
- Spectrum Analyzer? 1 (??) - Questionable to keep
- Oscilloscope 1 (??) - Yes, Yes, Yes Very much needed
- Any other equipment?
- Computers
- Single linux-based small form factor computer, maybe?
- Monitors
- Projector or Prometheus or whiteboard
- Soldering Station(s)
- Two soldering stations; one higher end (rework and more) and one for general purpose, solder suckers
- Consider filtering or exhaust nearby
- Other Equipment?
- Flush cutters, wire strippers, tweezers, dental picks, screwdrivers, bench sockets,
- General Lighting? - LED 2x4s
- Any Task Lighting? - Task specific lighting on at least one bench
- Any special requirements, such as exhaust for soldering or SMT work?
- Humidifier or Dehumidifier? - Keep it within certain Rh limits
- How many people at a time? - Optimize for two, any more, we’ll spill over into the classroom.
- Test Equipment - list of pieces and dimensions of them. Also consider where electrical cords go…
- Binocular magnifier(s)
- Storage Requirements
- Three Gray Units
- Bin Rack
- Two Door Cabinet
- Wire Racks
- Bookcases with equipment manuals
- Large diameter shrink wrap and long tubes
- Tool boxes
- Drone Parts
- Small Hardware Bins
- Black and Yellow boxes
- Parts Bins
- Storage Shelves and/or Racks
- Work surfaces
- Hard surface - cutting, pounding, heat, (needs to be durable)
- Static Dissipative, grounded surface (where do we ground to?)
- Hand tools - pegboard or clearly labeled bins or drawers
- Will have to decide on what tools this means
- Breadboard(s), jumper wires in all combinations,
- Arduinos and RaspberryPis
- What will be electrical requirements for
- What are lighting requirements?
- What are HVAC requirements?
- How many people are we looking to work in this space?
- Listing of Equipment
- Hard drop(s) for ethernet connections
- Materials
- From Needs listing, we do a ‘space program’, listing space/area and the requirements of each
- From Space Program, we do three preliminary layouts / designs
- From Preliminary, we select one to refine.
- From Preliminary, we will price things out and create a draft timeline
- From Final Design, we will include layout, costs & timeline.
- Then to Facility Committee and Board of Directors for $$$$
Big Picture Planning
- Overall discussion of what the Elab wants to be:
- Flexible in configuration to accommodate different sized things
- Spread out broken stuff to DIY fix
- Collaboration space - something to be able to work face to face
- Space to demo stuff face to face
- Space to work on micro-controllers
- Space to work on project boxes; assembly for small projects
- Three Main Sections: Fabrication & Assembly, Testing and finally Demonstration
- Support for group activities (for example KidWind) and/or classes - robot teams, rocket teams, home automation teams
- Support for proto-typing entrepreneurs
- Will be important to know what we have and where it is located.
- Support for education: IE. a Classroom kit - multi soldering kits and accessories - Will likely need three to six stations for Classroom function