My lab area is surrounded by heavy duty steel shelving units that I got from Home Depot, which I use for storing all my electronics component stock or storing development gear. There are several Workbenches setup and I have them laid out in a “T” formation. This provides access to both sides of the center table and is great when you are working on computers or other hardware, and need easy access to the backside interface ports.
Gerry’s Lab – Main work area
I work in various areas of electronics fabrication and repair for all sorts of projects. Circuit board design and development, CPLD & FPGA programming (VHDL), electronics repair, robotics, circuit diagnostics, automation testing, software programming (mainly C, C++, Python and Assembly). All of my lab bench test equipment, I have purchased broken or slightly damaged off eBay).
Gerry’s Lab – Electronics Workbench
My main programming workstation I have setup with several monitors positioned vertically which I prefer, when working on source code projects. Whether it be VHDL code for an Altera CPLD/FPGA project, or if I’m writing an automation test program in C/C++ or Python. This is where I do all my source code development work.
Gerry’s Lab – Source code programming station
The filming area or “Filming Set” is on the opposite side of my Lab. Several ceiling pot lights provide great lighting for the camera but I also use an “Apature” lighting kit with the BOX-II 35 deg Grid. I bought the kit on Amazon and works quite well for my needs. I may end up purchasing a second one later this year.
I also have a RODE NTG4+ shotgun microphone with a ZOOM H4N digital recorder that use for recording all the audio for my Videos. This combo audio kit works really well and have had it for years.
Gerry’s Lab – Filming Set
I have a few Pick-N-Place robotic arm units, like this CRSPlus A250 medical Laboratory robotic arm unit from 1985 shown below.
CRS A250 Pick-N-Place Robotic Arm
I restored this unit into working order after several months of rewiring the robot to work with a different robot controller model than the robot was designed for.
The Workshop seems to always be a state of Flux….as I am constantly changing the layout and equipment.
It is such a fun space to use when working on projects…
Loads of Fun!