Dave has run out of space in the EEVblog lab so needs to fit out the cupboard in his study for all the electronics parts and junk.

Hi welcome to the Eev blog an Electronics Engineering Video blog of interest to anyone involved in electronics design. I'm your host Dave Jones hi It turns out that I'm running out of room in the Eev blog lab. go figure. it's only about 2 and2 m by 2 and 1/2 M It's not very big at all, so here I am in the study which is the only other room I've got available and I've got my junk cupboard here, but it's not very well organized.

Let's check it out. Look at this. It's basically my uh book. It's got a very old uh, you know, a 20 almost 30 year old bookshelf.

It's got some crap drawers here with cables. It's got boxes stuffed up the top and basically I need more room for all of my component boxes and things like that and my plastic tubs for all the gear I use these in the Eev blog lab I've shown you a tour of that before so I thought what I do is Rip all this out and uh, fit some shells in here that are the perfect sides for these plastic tub. So the the whole idea is to refit it so I can actually get rid of a lot of these books, probably not get rid of them, just put them into storage up in the roof or something like that and um, refit out all this so I can neatly organize stuff so I can access it. So I thought I'd show you building this thing I stud finder.

Let's give it a go Beauty y And here it is. Here's the complete cupboard, but well, it's not complete I Haven't finished putting everything in the boxes and putting all the stuff back in. but as you can see, I've now got uh shelving which allows me to utilize these uh, clip top plastic tubs for all my stuff to categorize everything and just slide them right in. Brilliant! And I can uh, dedicate individual little tubs like these? uh for each project I'm currently working on.

so each project will have its own little tub like this, which will have all the bags of all the components. Um, it'll have the Pcbs and maybe schematics and all sorts of stuff I'm working on for each current project. So I've got like half a dozen current projects I'm working on so they'll each get their own tub. Um, I've got tons of space.

Well, it's the best I can do anyway. And of course everyone's got to have a tub of multimeters. Check it out. Don't know how many are in there, but everyone's got a tub of multimeters, right? Catch you later! Yeah,.


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24 thoughts on “Eevblog #136 – building an electronics storage cupboard”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rusty Rebar says:

    I hope those tubs are ESD safe!!

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hemik Hemiczny says:

    Rather a tubboard than a cupboard 😉

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars tohopes says:

    Closet Shelving I and Closet Shelving II are two of the best tracks on the EEVBlog soundtrack.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ed Herdman says:

    Surprised nobody has asked about the music yet…is that homebrew too, or..?

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars adisharr says:

    I was trying to figure that out too LOL

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Seth Burgin says:

    Come on Dave! I had to watch my mom hide all my stuff I put on the kitchen table after the hail storm ruined the shop. That was just as boring. I am still trying to find stuff. I would try to help and it turned into a bigger mess. This like reliving a nightmare. Do electronics please! I did get a clip top tube for a curve tracer to test vacuum tubes. Somehow I don't trust those Chinese cheap jacks on the patch board. Off the top of my head.?? 27 multi meters, a blasting Galvanometer, & a hipot

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Aid Vllasaliu says:

    build a book scanner, store the books digitally

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ty Cetto says:

    2:09 Stud finder! LOL

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars DigiDriftZone says:

    How many litres are those plastic tubs?

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Armin Balija says:

    @ivaneduardo747 Checking if it can handle weight stress? hehehe

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Armin Balija says:

    1:21 new in box meter and something else 🙁

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars phillebeau says:

    I like your entousiasm.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ivan V says:

    @b4ra2 He already done it! Check out the episode #168.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ivan V says:

    3:04 WTF?

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Shawn White says:

    I would have stained those pine braces instead of painting them.

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ronald Lijs says:

    Mate, I use the EXACT same type of plastic boxes for each my different designs I am working on. Some of my boxes are flatter too……. 🙂 Great stuff!

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars EEVblog says:

    @snoeg Yeah, haven't quite figured that part out yet!

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars EEVblog says:

    @fronkenpoop That's cheap, snap it up at that price! :->

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jaspers22 says:

    I am never going to clean my room, not until I get 20 multimeters XD!

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gameboygenius says:

    2:13 What did it react to? A necklace?

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars RyeGuy8 says:

    @sephiroth671 – I wouldn't advise storing your children in the closet.

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars RyeGuy8 says:

    Ha! I keep getting free multimeters from the cheapo china import store so I have a box of them too.

    Nice simple build. Thanks for the vid.

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars neutron7 says:

    LOL ye olde stud finder joke FTW

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alan Yates says:

    Nice job, I so desperately need to do something similar myself. Dedicating a tub to each concurrent project is an excellent idea, better than just leaving them on the bench.

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