{"id":2447,"date":"2009-09-29T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:04","slug":"tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Peter Edwards of Casper Electronics<\/a> shared a picture of his workbench today via Make<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the exception of the audio recorder and circuit bending tools, pretty much every piece of equipment on that bench can be found on mine as well.\u00a0 I even have the same yellow bins!<\/p>\n

There’s a great writeup on his site<\/a> describing each numbered tool in the photo.\u00a0 If you started from scratch and bought all of the items on his list, you would have a great instant electronics workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Edwards of Casper Electronics shared a picture of his workbench today via Make. With the exception of the audio recorder and circuit bending tools, pretty much every piece of equipment on that bench can be found on mine as well.\u00a0 I even have the same yellow bins! There’s a great writeup on his site … Continue reading Tools!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[243,244,148,265],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-apple","tag-mac","tag-soldering","tag-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sioCd-tools","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16103,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/teardown-2025-useful-tools-for-your-electronics-workshop\/","url_meta":{"origin":2447,"position":0},"title":"Teardown 2025: Useful Tools for Your Electronics Workshop","author":"Jeff","date":"June 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The slides for the talk I gave at Teardown 2025 are posted here. 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