Maybe this will prompt someone to come up with a better way to collect and distribute the news to people without charge.
It is called Twitter, enjoy...of course it still costs you a device, connectivity charge, and eventually whatever monetizing means Twitter comes up with.
We should not need to pay to find out what is going on in the world around us.
You do not need to pay, go out in the world and get it yourself.
Now if you expect someone to bring it to you on a platter with any level of quality, and reliability, trustworthiness then it will come at a cost.
That cost may be tax dollars in your socialist society that feeds, clothes, bathes, and medicates you, or from advertising views or pay-walls.
Of course I do not know of any news service that provides that caliber of news today for pay or free anyway, so Twitter should be sufficient for you.
I don't want to live in post-nuclear wasteland.
Do not worry, you will die in the first wave.
That's 10 grand for a start. Now how much have you left for the rest of the lab?
At least another 90K for the first round, what else you got?
1 - what size of space you are thinking of using?
11' by 14' to start, but it can be expanded into the adjacent room of the same size.
2 - what sort of support services are around it (eg, is it a shed at the end of the garden with no power, a basement room with mains power, a barn......) ?
1903 built commercial building, second floor, stained concrete floor, electrical wiring with proper grounds, windows, brick wall, glass wall, and sheet rock wall.
3 - what sort of budget do you have to spend?
If I can justify it to my boss then I can get the budget for it. Of course justification is hard without specific project examples. The first project is a small GSM device for example. Another project involves FPGA devices.
Thanks!
First, why do you capitalize "electrical engineer", when it is not a proper noun? I think it is just for show, and to try to sound more impressive.
I typed EE instead of Electrical Engineer, then changed it, that is why they ended up capital.
Second, if you were an electrical engineer, you would know what the hell you need to do your job, and you wouldn't be asking vague bullshit questions on Slashdot.
A valid accusation, I admit I am a bit rusty on hardware, but primarily I was trying to be concise with the question, not vague. I could have dumped my current shopping list of soldering irons to spectrum analyzers in the post but I did not want to scare anyone off with a TLDR question. My primary objective was to get more specific suggestions, models and distributors, but not limit responses to that either. I thought it would be fun to leave things a bit more open.
Third, what is the point of vague details such as "prototype some hardware"?
The company I work for is still fairly young and does contract work, we have a handful of electrical engineers on staff, myself included, who are itching to attract hardware projects and start some of our own. For a specific example, one project we are currently working on involves GSM radios. I do not want to limit the lab equipment to a specific hardware application so I was not more specific.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.