Jinx wrote: >> It starts as an empty room, so I have the chance to >> prepare everything before even the walls are re-finished > > Can you hang shelves, monitors etc from the ceiling so > they won't take up floor or bench space At least shelves you can mount to the wall, and maybe the monitors, too. Hanging monitors from the ceiling is a really cool idea, though :) When I'm working at the bench, once in a while I dream a bit about getting all the cables out of the way. (Mostly I'm talking about the cables that I tend to move around: the cable to the soldering iron, scope probes, multimeter probes, mini-drill, hot-glue pistol etc.) Something like routing them all through some springs or so hanging from the ceiling. The tricky thing here is that the force these "springs" apply to the cables has to be constant (that is, independent of the extension of the "spring"), and should be adjustable. I'm not sure such a thing exists. Gerhard -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist