Category Archives: Tools

Soldering For Road Warriors

Posted on 2012-02-16 by M. Eric Carr

Radio Shack’s battery-powered cordless soldering iron is actually useful for electronics projects… Continue reading →

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Breadboard oscilloscope

Posted on 2011-10-22 by M. Eric Carr

The Gabotronics XProtoLab is a miniature, breadboardable oscilloscope. Continue reading →

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Thoughts on LabVIEW

Posted on 2011-09-13 by M. Eric Carr

NI LabVIEW is very good at some things. It’s also spectacularly bad at others… Continue reading →

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Full of hot air

Posted on 2011-08-30 by M. Eric Carr

A hot air reworking station is essential for working with many types of surface-mount designs. Continue reading →

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