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Electronics Cause
Location: The Electronics bench, taking up the right hand wall of the Green room, opposite where the TV is mounted.
Cause Leader: Brendan (nog3) Halliday
Objective: To provide an accessible electronics work-space that allows advanced electronic design to be conducted at HSBNE.
Members: See Current List
Communications: Forums and #electronics in Discord Chat.
Operating Policy: Policy
Cause Area Expectations
- Please leave the area as clean or cleaner than you found it.
- Please make sure to put money in the donation tin for consumables.
- Please don’t leave things running on the power supplies unattended.
- Please don’t leave irons or other tools on when you’re not immediately using them.
- Please return tools to their homes.
Cause Owned Equipment
Tools requiring Induction
Spot Welder -
- Induction process is to demonstrate safe use of the tool and then get them to try it also.
Reflow Oven -
- Induction process is to run through approved uses for the oven and how to achieve them and demonstrate use of front panel and default oven profiles.
- Maintainer is Lucas Oldfield (BadBiki)
Tools requiring Supervision
Currently none of our tools require supervision.
Process for becoming a Maintainer
Tools are generally maintained by the cause leader, so check in with them before embarking on fixing a tool.
Process for becoming a Supervisor
No tools require supervision currently.
Ongoing Budgets
Monthly Consumables Discretionary - $100. This is for reimbursing purchases of things required from the Electronics Cause Consumables list.
Current Goals
- Rebuild the electronics bench along the wall.
- Hang electronics components drawers under the bench.
- Build a shelf to hold all the obvious tools and consumables up off the bench so it can be swept easily
- Replicate our current setup in to at least 2 bays worth of equipment that are the same or functionally similar
- Make the bays swipe-to-turn-on with a clear time indicator and a 'add time' button.
- Acquire transistor sets
- Acquire more iso pumps
- Finish restock of capacitors
- Purchase headers and trimmer pots
- Purchase hand tools to be chained to workbench.
- Begin sorting boneyard IC’s
- Figure out how to store these IC’s
- Setting up SMD components
Proposed Classes
- To be held every (or every second) Saturday from midday till 1:30pm
- How to read schematics and construct circuits
- Making a radio
- Basic electronic measurement and component characteristics
- Soldering class
- Oscilloscope measurement and basic AC circuits
- Basic circuit analysis and component calculation
- The transistor and you
- Introduction to opamps
- Introduction to 555 timer
- Introduction to logic gates
- Introduction to microcontrollers
- The arduino, reading sensors
- Remote reading and switching
- Basic circuit troubleshooting
- Electronic circuit strategy (building blocks of circuit design)
- Making a PCB
- Designing a PCB
Cleaning plan
There are pictures of the bench in a clean state, please return them to it. Label where stuff should go and put it there if it isn't. Ensure that members who use the electronics workbench do the same.
- causes/electronics.1586839547
- Last modified: 5 years ago
- by nogthree