Jeff Davis @ke9v
Proto BuildBar in Dayton Serves Drinks and DIY Electronics curbed.com/archives/2015/… via @Curbed
I hope this place is still open next May when I head down to Dayton for Hamvention…Dan
Electrical_Engineer @Saelig
Give a Nerd a Microscope (like Saelig’s <$60 ones) and anyone can hand-solder SMT systems ubm.io/1LyXxGL pic.twitter.com/mKDGS0E1Zi
I may purchase one of these soon, if I ever got to doing some SMD work. Anyone have any recommendations?…Dan
Dangerous Prototypes @dangerousproto
Specan, a reboot of the W7ZOI/K7TAU spectrum analyzer goo.gl/k35LXM
Just what I need…another project…Dan
Bob, KG6AF says
I have two small, inexpensive USB microscopes that I bought off Ebay, and both image well enough to help with SMT work (for the money, they’re actually pretty remarkable). The big problem is the stands that come with them, which are wobbly or worse. I finally mounted one of ‘scopes on a gooseneck microphone desk stand, and that’s sort of OK, but not great. When shopping for a USB microscope, look at the sturdiness of the stand first, and also think about whether you’d have room to solder when a PCB is sitting beneath the ‘scope.
Dan KB6NU says
Thanks for the tip. Saelig actually says in the description of one of the microscopes they sell that the stand is not very robust. Maybe I could come up with some kind of stand like a desk lamp or a mic boom.