{"id":1689,"date":"2015-11-16T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:38:00","slug":"a-portable-electronics-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"A portable electronics bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I mounted an Atmel STK500, a couple of breadboards and a power supply in a briefcase. This allowed me to bring test circuits to my lectures and demonstrate them in the class room.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1691\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5112a_1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5112a_1000-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"The briefcase with the STK500 still mounted.\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5112a_1000-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5112a_1000-922x1024.jpg 922w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5112a_1000-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5112a_1000-400x444.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5112a_1000.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The briefcase with the STK500 still mounted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since I now have abandoned the STK500 in favor of just a USB programmer for AVR microcontrollers, I decided to rip out the STK500 and instead mount even more breadboard tiles inside the briefcase. This is how it looks now:<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1690\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5113a_1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5113a_1000-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"The briefcase now with increased breadboard area.\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5113a_1000-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5113a_1000-928x1024.jpg 928w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5113a_1000-136x150.jpg 136w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5113a_1000-400x441.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5113a_1000.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The briefcase now with increased breadboard area.<\/figcaption><\/figure><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I mounted an Atmel STK500, a couple of breadboards and a power supply in a briefcase. This allowed me to bring test circuits to my lectures and demonstrate them in the class room. Since I now have abandoned the STK500 in favor of just a USB programmer for AVR microcontrollers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avr","category-electronics_en","category-everything_en","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IGP5113a_1000.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48grL-rf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}