Cool Tool: Last Chance for Holiday Presents

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Give a man tools and he will make a robot to fish for himself. Tools really are the best possible presents.

1. Brass Sponge
   Never forget to wet your sponge again.
   
2. "Smart" Tweezers
   For when you have a pile of surface mount capacitors, all alike, all different.
   
3. PCB "Fab-in-a-Box" *
   The best thing for making PCBs other than having lots of money.
   
4. Calipers *
   These are the calipers I use, except the face of mine is cracked because I dropped it but it still works.
   
5. Screw Chek'R *
   If you ever need to deal with screws this is an invaluable tool.
   
6. Weller WES51 Analog Soldering Station *
   This is what I use to solder 0603 and smaller surface mount parts.
   
7. microscope
   For surface mount soldering you want something like this... I dont know anything about this seller, do not blame me...
   
8. Xacto Black Gripster Knife *
   I like this knife for detail work as I feel less likely to cut myself.
   
9. Taig or Sherline CNC Mill
   I have used the Taig and I assume that the Sherline is just as good.
   
10. Logic Analyzer
    I am still using an ancient Tektronix logic analyzer but one day I will get a USB logic analyzer.
    

* = I already bought this for myself.