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I'm a third-generation maker and inventor. My job requires that I have an intimate understanding of engineering, prototyping, hardware, software and networking.
by peteforde 4y ago
I'm a third-generation maker and inventor. My job requires that I have an intimate understanding of engineering, prototyping, hardware, software and networking. I literally have two kinds of soldering gun on my desk, alongside an oscilloscope and a signal generator. I can talk you through how traffic is routed around the internet and what happens when you press a key on your keyboard in nauseating detail.
Clearly, it's not as common a term as you believe that it is.
- hnlmorg 4y agoI said “common”, not “universal”. I accept that there will be edge cases but that doesn’t mean it is an uncommon term. Though it does sound like you operate in a different domain. I’ve generally heard the term in relation to sysadmin and related fields. While there’s nothing stopping an electrical engineer nor inventors from having a home lab I’ve generally heard them talk about their environment in more physical terms (eg soldering station) whereas a home lab (in computing context) is often just a rack in a cupboard. So it’s more of an ethereal space. This is all hugely generally speaking, of course. But it might go some what into explaining why you hadn’t heard of the term before.