Computer(s) in the shop?

[Christophe Mineau]

Hi Ken, still a good question.
I personnaly sometimes use a computer in the shop, especially when I do some accoustic works, mainly recording with a high quality USB microphone and doing some spectrum analysis with Audacity.
But I think I would use it more if I had a better Wifi coverage in the shop. But I am quite balanced between the idea of doing something to bring the network in my shop or not doing anything, because I fear to be too much distracted by my preferred forum ... I would waste the benefit I had, getting up very early in the week end (often 5 o'clock) , in order to push forward the different projects I have ...
But besides the computer, we should talk also about the smartphone.
You were talking about the old times where the computers were not existing or too crude, but if you compare what a modern smartphone can do compared to what you computer did only 10 to 5 years ago ...
And the smartphone can be of great help in the shop, I wrote a couple of articles about that :
La Belle Note - Smart Tools, the virtual tool box

and this one also :

La Belle Note - Magnetic attachment for smartphone

But I also use some usefull apps like :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...e_Tools_Metric
(there's also the imperial version)

and
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...mi.elettronica