Tools We Like: Spotlight on IDEO’s EE Lab — from labs.ideo.com by Sara Breselor
Prototyping essentials from breadboards to toaster ovens
Excerpt:
Mark Harrison has been building stuff at IDEO for more than 15 years (see Mark’s post on his all-time favorite workarounds). He’s one of the most knowledgeable tinkerers around, and he’s just finished putting together an electrical engineering lab at IDEO Palo Alto, stocked with every useful tool and device he could get his hands on. He wants to encourage more people to start building, and the lab is open to anyone with an idea. “I don’t want people to think that it’s specialized. You don’t have to be an engineer to come use the lab,” he says. “We’ve stocked it so that anybody can come in here, pick up an arduino and start prototyping.”
Here’s a quick tour of the tools Mark considers essential…
