Micah Elizabeth ScottInterview
Hardware and software hacker
Adapted from Micah Elizabeth Scott's interview on Uses This, published 20 December 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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These days I do nearly all of my design and coding work on a 13" MacBook Air from 2010.
When I do work from my own desk, I dock the laptop with a Dell U2711.
I see it as an alternative to the Apple 27" Cinema Display, but with more than one input.
I have a BK Precision 1621A, which is rated for up to 15V and 5A.
I've been using a BitScope BS100U for the past four years.
My multimeter is a Fluke 179, and I'm extremely happy with it.
My two favorite hand tools have got to be my Weller WES51 soldering station and a really sharp X-Acto knife.
For surface mount work, I have an Atten 850B rework station, and for the really tiny PCB surgery work I bought a 7X-45X stereo zoom microscope.
I bought a MakerBot Thing-o-Matic when they were new, but I immediately ran into trouble with the unreliable extruder motors on that first manufacturing run.
Notes
I find Evernote to be highly useful for keeping my life organized.
Coding & Development
Nowadays, I tend to use Sublime Text 2 for nearly everything.
Lately I've been enjoying Lua too, mostly for its stellar embedding API.
Design
Media
I use Aperture to develop and organize my photos.
Other
Now I've been mostly using Mac OS.