I want to start building a list of little tiny annoying problems in the space.
Its easy to identify a big problem (a machine doesnt work) but a lot of tiny workflow issues often get silently missed or stepped over. Stuff that maybe we can solve by spending a small amount of time or money to fix but will make everyones life easier.
If you come across a papercut, please add to this thread!
To get started, heres some I found recently. This is no way picking on anyone, its just where i was working in the space recently:
Woodshop vices all suck, better workholding would be great.
Electronics - the bench power supplies being so far from the soldering station is annoying, have to keep moving project from one bench to the other
Electronics - the components wall is kind of uncurated, and as such is full of random things. It would be great to have it populated with a standard set of stuff and cleared of the extra stuff. Standards stuff being resistors, capacitors, some logic level mosfets, hookup wire, dupont connectors both wire to board and wire to wire, a big selection of protoboard
Electronics - All the wire stripping and crimping tools are hidden in the black toolbox, they should be on the bench on retractors and ready to use.
Electronics - a wider selection of wire please
Electronics - a solder pot for tinning wire would save a lot of time
The only vernier calipers I can find are in the metalshop and they are analog. Sick of running back and forth. For $50 x4 we can buy some half decent ones for woodshop, digifab, electronics and craftpunk. I’ll put them on a retractable cable so they don’t wander off again. Obviously once cash flow isn’t an issue.
The only cable left on the green room charging station is a single USB C cable. There used to be tonnes of other cables but apparently every single one has gone walk about.
