Excerpt from Jim William’s “The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design” What’s your choice for a single best aid to an interesting and productive circuit design career? A PhD? An IQ of 250? A CAD workstation? Getting a paper into the Solid State Circuit Conference? Befriending the boss? I suppose all of these are of some value, but none even comes close to something else. In fact, their combined benefit isn’t even worth a fraction of something else. This something else even has potential economic rewards. What is this wondrous thing that outshines all the other candidates? It is, simply, a laboratory in your home. The enormous productivity advantage provided by a home lab is unmatched by anything I am familiar with. As for economic benefits, no stock tip, no real estate deal, no raise, no nothing can match the long-term investment yield a home lab can produce. The laboratory is, after all, an investment in yourself. It is an almost unfair advantage. The magic of a home lab is that it effectively creates time. Over the last 20 years I estimate that about 90% of my work output has occurred in a home lab. The ability to grab a few hours here and there combined with occasional marathon 5-20 hours sessions produces a huge accumulated time benefit. Perhaps more importantly, the time generated is highly leveraged. An hour in the lab at home is worth a day at work. A lot of work time is spent on unplanned and parasitic activities. Phone calls, interruptions, meetings, and just plain gossiping eat up obscene amounts of time. While these events may ultimately contribute towards good circuits, they do so in a very oblique way. Worse yet, they rob psychological momentum, breaking up design time into chunks instead of allowing continuous periods of concentration. When I’m at work I do my job. When I’m at home in the lab is where the boss and stockholders get what they paid for. It sounds absurd, but I have sat in meetings praying for 6 o’clock to come so I can go home and get to work. The uninterrupted time in a home lab permits persistence, one of the most powerful tools a designer has. I favor long, uninterrupted lab sessions of at least 5 to 10 hours, but family time won’t always allow for this. However, I can almost always get in two to four hours per day. Few things can match the convenience and efficiency of getting an idea while washing the dishes or putting my son to sleep and being able to breadboard it now. The easy and instant availability of lab time makes even small amounts of time practical. Because no one else uses your lab, everything is undisturbed and just as you left it after the last session. Nothing is missing or broken, and all test equipment is familiar. You can get right to work.

i always dream about this kind of room

Your lab is amazing. You have everything needed for a maker.

I love the incorporation of nature into your space with the effective placement of plants, which makes it a more aesthetically pleasing and livable place to be. I also like how you've divided the space into distinct functional areas in a tidy, orderly fashion

As a very chaotic individual, I appreciate this video.

Awesome. I recently built my own electronics lab ever since the start of covid and it's my new hobby now. Glad I saw your video and I hope to have something like your set up in the future. It looks clean and would be the dream set up. Thanks!

I love the part you talked about your book collections. Nice.

Thanks for sharing your experience

Really great video! Love your layout, and thought process behind an organized mind and lab. However sometimes it’s hard to keep a clean lab when your full-time doing projects around the clock. My granddad used to say “a spotless shop means no work is getting done” LOL but An organized and methodically set up a lab… Is easy to maintain even in chaos… Is very important. Not sure if I’m alone in this… But would love to see more specifics on your equipment, each piece and a 30 second summary of it’s usefulness, how often it’s needed,why you chose it, what do you think about it, stuff like that. Just an idea. Thanks for the tour!

Great video! I agree with your philosophy of having a home lab! Thank you very much!

3:14 The obligatory posters of Falcon 9 and Elon Musk wreathed in pot smoke. I see you are a man of culture, and I congratulate you.

Nice layout, I added you to my playlist to help give me ideas. Most of the equipment you own I want myself

This is my first video of yours I have watched. You have intrigued me and have earned a subscriber! I look forward to watching your other videos! Keep it up!

Awesome lab setup. Really nice equipment. I have the same Brother printer!

Love your space. It’s great.

These videos are amazing and exactly what I’ve been looking for. Your view count is going to skyrocket if you keep this up, which I hope you do!

I liked the Socratica!!

Messy Desk; An experienced Maker knows that any project will get some type of delay(s). Rather than stop, have several projects running through the workspace at once (as a sole worker) If one project stops, order parts etc and just change to work on another project The surface level may look like a "mess", yet work CAN NOT GET STOPPED; which is keeping TIME at it's highest value

"Lets go check out the bench" :)

I really like your approach

Wow man. It is nice to see guy who doesn't collect every equiment. Atleast they are not visible. I make many ideas to my new lab from your video. Thanks bud!

Really Nice Lab! Congrats!!

Can you talk about your 3D printer, your experience using it in relation with electronic projects and any recommendations? I want to get one but dont know which one is good for this type of projects

Just discovered your channel. From Scout Sniper to Electromechanical Engineer; such a badass background man, Semper Fi. Was an RTO in the Corps and a mechanical engineer now, but how I choose to spend my time is no where nearly as productive and organized as your approach. Subbed for sure!

Mill can come in handy for super quick, right at the moment, PCB prototype rather than waiting from fabhouse. Also if you have large enough frame, you can also use it as manual PnP with suction head, more precise than shaky hand 😄

Oh this this kind of workshop is heaven for me if i'm gonna start building my cubesat

good work on the prev video (jetbot) nice stuff..will be interesting to see another video on that but using Darkflow Yolo image recongition, tensorflow or keras :)

Very nice man 🤟🏽

Really nice workbench setup . What type , model is that clamp vise under the microscope ? I'm looking for such a nice vise for holding PCB .

The Tai Lopez knowledge bit got me

Superb keep it up...

*Great tour :) , you are right it's much easy when you keep your stuff organised and time saving. Do you know some ebook or a link for example about what smd components are , how to indetify which one is what, etc so some kind of that because I'm beginer of soldering and I wanna learn more about that things and I think your channel is one of the right direction :) . Thank you in andvance.*

What are these shelfs standing on the bench made of? Looking for some like that, sturdy, solution.

Nice lab

I like your philosophy !

Nice!

Please keep making.

I want to do my own lab. I see your lab and it's beautiful

Can you tell me the name of the books you have?

I love the wood top benches, where did you buy them from?

I don’t see that logic analyzer in the description, got a link?

Dope

Hi I like your lab, and your organization But i don t agree that outside space reflects what is the brain of the worker I have often a chaotic workspace , i guess because i cannot interrupt my flow, “just” to put everything in order, so i end up often with a mess in my workplace. but the target and often the steps to achieve it, are clear in my mind. So clear that i don’t need to clean up to follow In addition my lab is 3 square meter in total l, including benches, so is less easy to keep in order, sometime i need to stack things Now I m getting older, so i tend to work more “clean” also outside, because i have less energy to keep the direction, if I don’t have “organization rails” Anyway, thanks for sharing, always good to see nice workspaces

Thanks for the tour! What software do you use to display your calendar on the dedicated monitor?

Please make a video on how to get started on a lab

Nice lab zack

I am motivated

Nice video, I'd like to hear more about your milling machine.

Cool

What are those desks you use for your lab?

What is your table or desk that you are using??

lol the lopez bit was funny. Your place is amazing, I don't even know what half the stuff there is.

Nice Lab you got there!hope mine look like this hahahaha!New subscriber here!

can you give me all book list I need it.

I have a 240x90cm space to create a maker lab... any chance i can do so? I am gonna homeschool in a few months btw, so I'm trying to get my research done on how I'll conduct my homeschooling years. May I know what all you keep in your lab? My lab is mostly for Physics as that's what I love doing, engineering as well. Any suggestions on what I should keep in my lab as per my needs?

I can not built my own lab, but I have money to get thigs I need in a laboratory. I mean, my lab will be my betroom. I´ve been investigating to know what I need. Embedded Systems will be my hobby for all my life.

thanks

Could you please make a video on your books? Very interested in the topic and I would like to collect these books as well

Amazing! Where could I get a desk like that? thanks!

You compared google with a 3 shelves book shelf?

did u replace the lcd on your prusa?

How to become an expert in electronics, maintenance and manufacture of devices?

Question. Could an electromagnet turned on and off pointed at a coil of copper wire do the same as moving a solid magnet through a could of wire. Is it stimulating the electrons in the copper coil like a solid magnet or is it transferring electrons wirelessly?

His personal lab is better than my University's Laboratories...😂😂

where is your soldering extraction?

What Mill and scope do you use?

Dude is that a bonsai plant 🪴 in your lab?

Hi, useful insight into your workspace and to some extent your workflow. Some feedback if I may, as a non-electronic but keen to learn how to repair my electronics nerd all the acronyms were a bit much and the background music was discordant and distracting. Cheers.

👍👍

Not sure if it’s the angle but your lab looks a bit cramped. You seem to have very little desk space. Can’t you place everything on a shelf then grab it whenever you need it?

You never mention how long it took you from scratch to build it up! and how much have you spend so far.

is this video recorded by using ai robot :| bcz of there is so much noise 0:00 to 7:54

I started an electronics lab series, check it out here: kzfaq.info/sun/PL-1xhwS3AS2e4S2aWMi818l1F4Yyp338i

Could you tell us the dimensions of your maker space?

Hi, how could I contact you? It's for a job offer

My mind is indeed a junk store, like my workspace. I flit from one thing to another, a hundred projects on the go, none of them finished. “Have you read all those books?” My answer, of course not, if I’d read them they wouldn’t be there.

Space is beautiful. The psychoanalysis is totally off. I’ve known engineers with dozens of patents with works spaces that were a total disaster. In fact ALL the designers I’ve known that were really good at executing and bringing products and software to market have had very chaotic workbenches. This space looks very very pristine to me.

If a messy desk is a sign of a messy head, what does an empty desk then symbolize? :-)

I bet he cleaned his destroyed lab right before this video 😂

why he said "may 5" in portuguese?

5 de maio?

I like ur room and I want to be my room to be the same

empty desk, empty mind

Hello, we miss you, please upload new videos, please ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Nice shop. Turn your background music down a little. Thank you.

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Why do you think, or more to the point, assume that being messy has something to do with the brain being disorganised?

I bet you have OCD like me. Funny friends come over and they are like, this is not normal. I just think I like it organized like you, but my kitchen and sock drawer are the same way. A lot of Engineers are unbelievably anal about their organization. It works for me. I'll bet you measured the distance between you pictures on the wall, am I right!

Messy workspace doesn't mean you don't know where everything is... damn, that's the best excuse I could think of :)

Have you actually read all those books?

MTV Labs.

Can you edit your lousy music please.

too much noise in your video Set the correct iso on your camera i think it will help u for a good video quality

My eyes, light very hight. 😫

Ok, my office looks like a garbage truck crashed. What are you telling me? PS. It must work for me. I do the work of 3 people and make the company more productive than anyone that proceeded me.

What? No credit given to Albert Einstein for the quote you paraphrased? Lol! I'm not calling anyone out, so please take this as a jest, goof, spoof, gag, funny, humorous, just as I intend it to be. It's just an oddly timed series of coincidences that I just saw that picture of Mr. Einstein this morning. Then, my wife saw the poster, too, and asked if I had seen it and if I would want one for my cave. Paraphrased - "If a cluttered desk is evidence of a cluttered mind, then what should one think of a person with an empty desk? " To which I would have loved to reply to Mr. Einstein, " Their desk is empty because they're not at work yet, so haven't had a chance to clutter it. I'd imagine them late because they're still combing their hair! " My cheek would get me killed, I'm sure of it. Lol😅😅😅 Could anyone solder together a time machine really quickly? Please?............... .......'crickets'.......

3:26 how I interact with ladies

Messy desk, messy head? But what does then an empty desk reflect? 🤣

I hope you just heard a click on your subscriber counter

Nice lab, but too clean... This explains the lack of diy videos on your channel. You are too busy with cleaning and have no time for creating quality content. I like more 12volts videos...that are very instructive but made in a dirty workshop. So...