Do you have a "home lab setup"? (Biology, Chem, Physics, CS/IT Related Courses)

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  1. AsianStew

    AsianStew Moderator Staff Member

    Hello Everyone,

    There's several courses I'll be taking that will require a Lab Component. I was wondering how you all set that up?
    For example, the science courses have a 1 credit lab (which is optional for some degrees), where do you get your lab equipment?

    For the Comp Sci/IT Related Majors - How do you have your home lab rigged up?
    That's basically what I am trying to do, is to create a home lab so I can get started with IT Certs/Courses.

    I've been reading other forums and getting an idea how it's done but wondering what your basic rig is like.
    Thanks, AsianStew
     
  2. perrymk

    perrymk Member

    American Science and Surplus has some interesting looking stuff. I seem to recall purchasing a ring stand on eBay. While I am employed as a chemist, my simple home set up is for making hot sauce from a variety of hot pepper I grow in my garden.

    At work we usually go through Fisher Scientific for our lab supplies.
     
  3. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    I totally did for my online sciences and do now as well! Now, in full disclosure, I have 2 high school sons who do labs for homeschooling and 1 middle schooler, so we have a lot of stuff that wasn't "just" for me.

    I have 3 microscopes- one "regular" one with an oil immersion lens, a digital one that is "ok" and a field (stereo) microscope that the kids use whenever.
    I have mine sorted by discipline. I have a chemistry area, an earth science area, a biology area and a physics area. I'll try and load a pic or two

    EDIT: I don't know how to put my pics in a format that has a url (fingers in ears - la la la la la) but here's one I had on Facebook that I can link you to. https://www.facebook.com/HomeschoolingforCollegeCredit/photos/a.533487260025673.1073741826.513484298692636/848723181835411/?type=3&theater
     
  4. AsianStew

    AsianStew Moderator Staff Member

    That's awesome, I'm going to set up something like the following. I have two rooms (although a bit small).
    One room will be the Natural Sciences room where I'll have a section for Bio, another for Chem, and a section for Physics.
    The other room with be my "work" room and where I'll have my "home lab" for CS/IT Courses and Certification training.

    For those of you who have a home computer lab, small or large, how is yours setup? I have a 24 inch and two 19" monitors, 3 desktops and 3 laptops. Each sharing the wireless network connection to the internet, I have a local printer (not networked). I switch laptops with the 24" monitor to have a dual screen setup and each of the desktops I dual screen by cable/switch.

    My question for the home computer lab, what's the best option to learn more on the several CS/IT certifications out there?
    Those 3 desktops are on Win10, the 3 laptops are running Win 10 except for one, it's on Win7 Home Premium. I want to setup something like RDP or VNC into the desktops from my laptops. For the desktops, i'm thinking of having server software and virtual servers running on them for practice. I don't have any Cisco Hardware, so skipping training that for now.

    Essentially, I want to start with the basics and move up to the harder ones, I believe in this order, CompTIA, Microsoft, InfoSec, and CISCO Certifications. I may skip the CIW and MTA certifications as these topics should be covered already or overlapped with the newer/harder certifications.
     

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