Periodic reminder to the fedi EE / embedded systems community: I have a lot of lab capabilities and resources that the average hobbyist can't afford, and am willing to offer them up on reasonable terms (i.e. FREE in many cases) to help people out.

As a general rule if you're not making money on it (i.e. hobbyist/noncommercial/academic project) and it's not a major time commitment or consumable cost for me, all I ask is that you pay return shipping if you want the hardware sent back to you afterwards. For anything large or commercial in nature, I'm still potentially interested but we'd have to discuss compensation first (I offer steep discounts vs industry rates as long as you're not making a profit from the project... think $25-50 an hour for something an industry lab would charge several hundred for)

Also open to hosting occasional lab sessions for folks in person on weekends if you're Seattle local and willing to head across the water.

Capabilities and equipment available:
* 3D planar EM simulation (Sonnet Pro)
* 5 3/4 digit multimeters (R&S HMC8012)
* Various oscilloscopes to 16 GHz BW (PicoScope 6424E, LeCroy WaveRunner 8404M-MS, LeCroy SDA 816Zi-A) plus power rail, current, and differential probes
* VNA measurements to 8.5 GHz (PicoVNA 106 / 108)
* BERT BER/eye pattern/bathtub curve measurements to 28 Gbps (MultiLane ML4039-BTP)
* Vector signal generation to 6 GHz (Siglent SSG5060X-V)
* Fine pitch soldering and PCB rework, BGA assembly, inner layer circuit edits, etc
* UV-VIS-NIR (200 - 1200 nm) spectroscopy
* Low magnification stereo microscopy
* High magnification reflected light optical microscopy to ~300nm resolution, including large area automated step-and-repeat scanning and stitching of multi-gigapixel datasets
* Coming soon (purchase order sent to vendor, estimated ship date is early April): Embedding and cross section polishing for failure analysis etc