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Revision as of 18:22, 29 January 2025
During the 11th January Hack the Space day several team members and electronics area users met up to discuss some ideas for improving the electronics area. Some key things we mentioned:
- There is no extraction for soldering
- We have no SMT hot plate or reflow oven
- Things keep getting smaller and we don't have a microscope
As part of this project to improve the electronics area, we will also build a bench along the windowed wall connecting the 3D printing and Electronics benches together. It'll be shared between the two areas. The plan is for the space to cover the cost of materials for this bench.
Items
This pledge drive is for the following items of equipment:
T-962A Reflow Oven £378 (shipped). It should be perfect for SMT soldering and able to accommodate boards up to 300x320mm.
- The original version of this oven had many issues, and while the "new version" fixes some of those, there are still a number of things we may want/need to improve. There's a good write up of this on Hackaday.io.
AD249S-M Digital Microscope - These are on Amazon for £250 (shipped) and have a large display making it easy to work with small parts. This seems more favourable than a binocular style microscope due to some people wearing glasses.
Extraction - primarily for the reflow oven, but this will also be a good opportunity to sort out extraction for the soldering and rework bench (left and middle). The lower third of the electronics area window is plastic, so the proposal is to drill a 100mm hole in this. I would like to run ducting under the benches so that there be a hole made in both the soldering and the rework benches (probably with a mesh screen...). A "goose neck" like hose can then be fitted into there and positioned in the appropriate place for soldering.
- Inline ducting fan - £28
- 10ish metres of 100mm ducting - £15
- Bendy ducting and nozzle - 2x £25 - This will be for extraction on the soldering and rework benches.
- 100mm host clamps - 2x £7
- 100m tee - 2x £8 - one for one of the benches and one for reflow oven.
There may be some small adapters needed too - these can probably be 3D printed.
Any excess on this pledge drive will be used to refresh some of the smaller tools such as tweezers, pliers and to stock up on consumables.
- Reflow oven: £378 -- Ordered, was on offer, £290.18, may be import tax and duty.
- Microscope: £250 -- Ordered, voucher available, £234.99. Arrived
- Extraction: £123 -- Ordered, £129.57 total. Mostly Arrived, waiting for nozzly things
- Total: £751 planned / £753.74 pledged / £654.74 actual spend. There may be import tax on bits ordered from AliExpress. Excess expected to be at least £60
Pledge
Please do not make any bank transfers until requested. This pledge drive will use the payment reference 2025ELEC-XX (where XX are your initials).
| Who | How Much | Paid? | Method Paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Jackson | £100 | Yes | Transfer |
| JonW | £100.10 | Yes | Transfer |
| Eddie Podgorski | £30 | Yes | Transfer |
| Greg Farley | £50 | Yes | Transfer |
| Shane | £22.55 | Yes | Transfer |
| Moop | £100 | Yes | Transfer |
| Emily Roe | £25.25 | Yes | Transfer |
| Olivia Iacovou | £20 | Yes | Transfer |
| DosFox | £25 | Yes | Transfer |
| Paul Egan | £100 | Yes | Transfer (ref: Electronics) |
| Sam Roberts | £35.84 | Yes | Transfer |
| Stuart Tyler | £25.00 | Yes | Transfer |
| Sam Spinks | £20.00 | Yes | Transfer |
| Jason Alexander | £100.00 | Yes | Transfer |
| Malcolm Childs | £20.00 |
Pledges Raised: £773.74 / £751.00 (103.03%)
Pledges Collected: £753.74 / £773.74 (97.42%)