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No thanks to Dave and the rest of you very well equipped guys I'm constantly penniless; anyways, here is my modest lab I started building 4 months ago. My ghetto lab sits in my bedroom on a table made of a door and saw horses. I really would like to get my hands on a good LCR meter and a spectrum analyzer or two, but now that I've burned through any sort of savings, they will have to wait. When it does come time for me to purchase a good LCR meter, should I get a HP bench LCR meter or should I purchase something like the DER EE DE-5000? Which is more accurate?
What's the extractor pipe for? Do you produce a lot of excess gas in there?
Quote from: y2khris on August 02, 2016, 03:25:31 amNo thanks to Dave and the rest of you very well equipped guys I'm constantly penniless; anyways, here is my modest lab I started building 4 months ago. My ghetto lab sits in my bedroom on a table made of a door and saw horses. I really would like to get my hands on a good LCR meter and a spectrum analyzer or two, but now that I've burned through any sort of savings, they will have to wait. When it does come time for me to purchase a good LCR meter, should I get a HP bench LCR meter or should I purchase something like the DER EE DE-5000? Which is more accurate?Very nice - every good lab should have Lady Heather running the show!
Quote from: Richard Head on August 02, 2016, 11:27:09 amWhat's the extractor pipe for? Do you produce a lot of excess gas in there?Probably an air conditioner.
No thanks to Dave and the rest of you very well equipped guys I'm constantly penniless; anyways, here is my modest lab I started building 4 months ago. My ghetto lab sits in my bedroom on a table made of a door and saw horses.
My ghetto lab sits in my bedroom on a table made of a door and saw horses.
My new dorm lab.
Quote from: blueskull on August 03, 2016, 02:51:12 pmMy new dorm lab.That's a very nice compact set up. I recommend your next upgrade be to a more comfortable chair.
In my Freshman year I had a 20 sq m (215 sq ft) apartment, small but perfectly formed. By the time I had added the bed, the TV and the bookshelf there was not much room for anything else. Good for practising the minimalist lifestyle.
Quote from: blueskull on August 03, 2016, 02:51:12 pmMy new dorm lab. Since I think you are in Florida and may have gotten your tables at Costco, you can expand vertically if you get Costco plastic shelves (also available at Home Depot) and place them at the ends of the table (perpendicular to the wall) and put boards across them to form shelves above the tables. The boards have to be longer than the tables. My tables are 6 feet and I use 8 foot boards (2x12s). The span of the two plastic shelves and table works out to be about 9 feet.
Quote from: ez24 on August 03, 2016, 11:31:15 pmQuote from: blueskull on August 03, 2016, 02:51:12 pmMy new dorm lab. Since I think you are in Florida and may have gotten your tables at Costco, you can expand vertically if you get Costco plastic shelves (also available at Home Depot) and place them at the ends of the table (perpendicular to the wall) and put boards across them to form shelves above the tables. The boards have to be longer than the tables. My tables are 6 feet and I use 8 foot boards (2x12s). The span of the two plastic shelves and table works out to be about 9 feet.That is dangerous... the Costco plastic shelves will sag if you put any weight on them:
That is dangerous... the Costco plastic shelves will sag if you put any weight on them:
My new dorm lab. Since I am now having a great commercializable idea, I do not want the university to be part of it. After discussing with my professor, he wants to help me starting a business, but according to patent agreement I signed with the university, I can not use any resource from the university, including my lab and my office.Therefore, I moved my equipments to my dorm, and started a dorm lab. This also allows me to work in a soho fashion. All equipments shown here are my personal property, and all parts are either paid by my professor's own funding, or from my pocket.
Quote from: mtdoc on August 04, 2016, 06:51:01 pmQuote from: blueskull on August 03, 2016, 02:51:12 pmMy new dorm lab. Since I am now having a great commercializable idea, I do not want the university to be part of it. After discussing with my professor, he wants to help me starting a business, but according to patent agreement I signed with the university, I can not use any resource from the university, including my lab and my office.Therefore, I moved my equipments to my dorm, and started a dorm lab. This also allows me to work in a soho fashion. All equipments shown here are my personal property, and all parts are either paid by my professor's own funding, or from my pocket.I would be sure to look carefully at the agreement. I was an employee of the University of California for many years - first as a PhD student and later as a research associate and lecturer. IIRC my agreement said ALL intellectual property I developed while employed belonged to the University - independent of who owned the equipment I may have used to develop it.Well, after reading your post, I went through our patent policy, and it is true. The university owns all patents during my employment.Please suggest me, if you have similar experience, should I:1. disclose the technology and make it never patentable.2. let the university to apply a patent for me, while having exception that I can license this patent for free to myself, my company and its potential subsidiaries and my employer.3. let the university to apply a patent, while providing ambiguous information that makes the patent hard to defend.4. secretly transfer the IP to my family in China, and let them to apply the patent (technically illegal but hard to collect evidence, and can get me fired, so this is my last choice).5. just give all patents to the university, I get 40% of the revenue, the university gets 10%, then 50% reserved for compensating application cost of non profiting patents (patent trust).I have no intention of protecting my invention from being monetized by the others (I do not have time to sue thousands of small Chinese companies, and I do not have money to sue big international players as well), but I do not want to pay the university for using my own invention either. The intention of applying a patent is solely for marketing purpose (Chinese companies are superstitious to western patents).
Quote from: blueskull on August 03, 2016, 02:51:12 pmMy new dorm lab. Since I am now having a great commercializable idea, I do not want the university to be part of it. After discussing with my professor, he wants to help me starting a business, but according to patent agreement I signed with the university, I can not use any resource from the university, including my lab and my office.Therefore, I moved my equipments to my dorm, and started a dorm lab. This also allows me to work in a soho fashion. All equipments shown here are my personal property, and all parts are either paid by my professor's own funding, or from my pocket.I would be sure to look carefully at the agreement. I was an employee of the University of California for many years - first as a PhD student and later as a research associate and lecturer. IIRC my agreement said ALL intellectual property I developed while employed belonged to the University - independent of who owned the equipment I may have used to develop it.
Well, after reading your post, I went through our patent policy, and it is true. The university owns all patents during my employment.Please suggest me, if you have similar experience, should I:1. disclose the technology and make it never patentable.2. let the university to apply a patent for me, while having exception that I can license this patent for free to myself, my company and its potential subsidiaries and my employer.3. let the university to apply a patent, while providing ambiguous information that makes the patent hard to defend.4. secretly transfer the IP to my family in China, and let them to apply the patent (technically illegal but hard to collect evidence, and can get me fired, so this is my last choice).5. just give all patents to the university, I get 40% of the revenue, the university gets 10%, then 50% reserved for compensating application cost of non profiting patents (patent trust).I have no intention of protecting my invention from being monetized by the others (I do not have time to sue thousands of small Chinese companies, and I do not have money to sue big international players as well), but I do not want to pay the university for using my own invention either. The intention of applying a patent is solely for marketing purpose (Chinese companies are superstitious to western patents).
Quote from: mtdoc on August 04, 2016, 06:51:01 pmQuote from: blueskull on August 03, 2016, 02:51:12 pmMy new dorm lab. Since I am now having a great commercializable idea, I do not want the university to be part of it. After discussing with my professor, he wants to help me starting a business, but according to patent agreement I signed with the university, I can not use any resource from the university, including my lab and my office.Therefore, I moved my equipments to my dorm, and started a dorm lab. This also allows me to work in a soho fashion. All equipments shown here are my personal property, and all parts are either paid by my professor's own funding, or from my pocket.I would be sure to look carefully at the agreement. I was an employee of the University of California for many years - first as a PhD student and later as a research associate and lecturer. IIRC my agreement said ALL intellectual property I developed while employed belonged to the University - independent of who owned the equipment I may have used to develop it.Well, after reading your post, I went through our patent policy, and it is true. The university owns all patents during my employment.Please suggest me, if you have similar experience, should I:1. disclose the technology and make it never patentable.2. let the university to apply a patent for me, while having exception that I can license this patent for free to myself, my company and its potential subsidiaries and my employer.3. let the university to apply a patent, while providing ambiguous information that makes the patent hard to defend.4. secretly transfer the IP to my family in China, and let them to apply the patent (technically illegal but hard to collect evidence, and can get me fired, so this is my last choice).5. just give all patents to the university, I get 40% of the revenue, the university gets 10%, then 50% reserved for compensating application cost of non profiting patents (patent trust).
Quote from: edavid on August 04, 2016, 05:30:30 pmQuote from: ez24 on August 03, 2016, 11:31:15 pmSince I think you are in Florida and may have gotten your tables at Costco, you can expand vertically if you get Costco plastic shelves (also available at Home Depot) and place them at the ends of the table (perpendicular to the wall) and put boards across them to form shelves above the tables. The boards have to be longer than the tables. My tables are 6 feet and I use 8 foot boards (2x12s). The span of the two plastic shelves and table works out to be about 9 feet.That is dangerous... the Costco plastic shelves will sag if you put any weight on them:Well, that's certainly one point on the "any" scale.
Quote from: ez24 on August 03, 2016, 11:31:15 pmSince I think you are in Florida and may have gotten your tables at Costco, you can expand vertically if you get Costco plastic shelves (also available at Home Depot) and place them at the ends of the table (perpendicular to the wall) and put boards across them to form shelves above the tables. The boards have to be longer than the tables. My tables are 6 feet and I use 8 foot boards (2x12s). The span of the two plastic shelves and table works out to be about 9 feet.That is dangerous... the Costco plastic shelves will sag if you put any weight on them:
Since I think you are in Florida and may have gotten your tables at Costco, you can expand vertically if you get Costco plastic shelves (also available at Home Depot) and place them at the ends of the table (perpendicular to the wall) and put boards across them to form shelves above the tables. The boards have to be longer than the tables. My tables are 6 feet and I use 8 foot boards (2x12s). The span of the two plastic shelves and table works out to be about 9 feet.
WoW, are you sure you have enough Tek plug-ins.
Quote from: Robaroni on July 06, 2016, 04:51:09 pmWe had a cat just like that, long and slinky! He just passed a couple of weeks ago after 18 plus years, what a great cat he was. Boy you sure get attached..........RobOh, and he does ladders, too. Kept hearing that tell tale aluminum extension ladder rattling from upstairs (In the midst of a renovation; it's there for access to a small attic), but when I'd go to investigate would hear a thump and several felines would scatter. Finally heard it the other morning at about 3 AM and very quietly crept up there in bare feet. He was in the attic, and on his way back down as he knew he'd been caught. He got down a few steps before I could get the damned flash on the phone turned on, but at least I know what's causing the noise now...I found him coming down again yesterday during the day, too. He's a little hooligan, that one! -Pat
We had a cat just like that, long and slinky! He just passed a couple of weeks ago after 18 plus years, what a great cat he was. Boy you sure get attached..........Rob