Build Shit - DIY - What's On Your Bench?

[Indeterminacy]

xe2x80x9cDid I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?xe2x80x9d

John Milton xe2x80x93 Paradise Lost

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Flotsam, Jetsam & detritus from multiple toolboxes, drawers and random boxes.
Not a New Year resolution but this organization is long over due in getting my workspace in order.

[crochambeau]

I have a stack of actual builds I need to churn through, but am this instant doing KiCad work on PCB level stuff because I need to integrate some refinements before replenishing boards.

[Indeterminacy]

Well, tear down, rust removal on the sawhorses outside.
Then to the bench.

Twin chassis

[Soloman Tump]

Currently fabricating a steel bench for my garage! Got a vice to bolt to it.

Am making it "flat pack" as am planning to move this year.

[logorok]

This is an Arduino based quantizer. There's still some finetuning and calibrating to do.

[WhiteWarlock]

ICL8038 VCLFO & MC1496 Balanced Modulator/Demodulator for making Gonkulator Based RingMod Module...

[WhiteWarlock]

Modified Modular HeathKit ET-3100 Electronic Design Experimenter...
with 1/4" 3.5mm & RCA Ins & outs wired directly to breadboard...
for Modular interacting prototype test circuits/pedal designs...

[Indeterminacy]

Where's The Harmonic Perculator?

[crochambeau]

New to my bench, a Tektronix 7633.

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Horizontal deflection is completely out of whack (non-existent), though the time base appears active in that it will alternate input on the dual trace amplifier. I was dismayed to observe that while I could get a vertical deflection on the screen, and watch it oscillate on/off that the vertical output tap (which was running into an amplifier) did not also shut off while the trace was off, sort of scuttling my tremolo/electronic switch dreams.

Makes a beautiful guitar fuzz though, another benchmark to beat I suppose.

[FAP]

Dual-555 APC with photo resistors, housed in a soup can. First time working with Vero board and it went a lot smoother than expected, though the final product is slightly less fun than it was on the breadboard. The biggest challenge was finding a way to mount the 9v battery and Ixe2x80x99m still not quite satisfied with my solution (zip ties and snug fit). Live and learn.