How to take a travelling electronics lab on the road with you

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If you're a frequent traveler, or if you don't have a garage or basement and find your kitchen table is doomed to serve most of its life as an electronics bench this hack is for you. [Robovergne] came up with a mobile electronics lab (translated) in order to help preserve the Wife Acceptance Factor for his hobby. The project comes in two parts. On the right you see the pair of component … [Read more...]

Function generator built and mounted inside electronics bench

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A function generator is a handy piece of test equipment to have on-site. [Kammenos] designed and built his own function generator, using the bench itself as the enclosure. You can see above that the control panel presents a clean finished look. To achieve it, [Kammenos] designed and printed the panel labels on a sheet of paper, and used a piece of acrylic to protect it. The circuit inside uses a … [Read more...]

Bench supply with current limiting

psu-with-current-limiter

This is a bench power supply with adjustable voltage and current limiting. [Sylvain's] creation can regulate 0-25 volts while sourcing 0-5 amps. Current limiting is a nice feature as it will allow you to test your prototypes to ensure the power regulator you choose will not be over or underpowered. This supply is really a two-in-one. The case has two separate circuits so that you can have … [Read more...]