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TorqueRanger:
I am going to order the book Make Electronics: Learn by Discovery by Charles Platt and I am starting to relearn everything I forgot and have not played with in a while ... I already have a bread board with wires and alot more ... But I was going to pick up up a couple 555 timer chips off ebay and is there anything else I should get ??? Oh by the way I am not going to buy the already built kits for those ridiculous prices when I can buy it for alot less on ebay ???
Falcon69:
I learned my lesson about buying IC chips or anything especially static sensitive from eBay. most of the stuff you find on eBay or stuff that the manufactures has deemed out of spec and sold off for cheap. I ordered 100x ULN2003 chips off ebay, and over half of them were bad.
Spend the little extra and save yourself a headache. buy from Digikey, Mouser, Newark, etc. when it comes to electronic components. You'll thank yourself later.
pickle9000:
Tayda is a good place parts, get 40-50 bucks worth at a time if you can afford it. Better than Ebay at least>
http://www.taydaelectronics.com/
TorqueRanger:
I am starting to put the kits for the projects and found I need a bunch of resistors but was thinking about buying a resistor kit from ebay but I am not sure whether to buy the 64 value metal film at 1% tolerance or to buy the 86 value carbon film resistors at 5%tolerance or just stick with mouser ???? Also I know I am going to have to put resistor together in order to make the right ohm rating..
minibutmany:
If you are just doing a few small projects, you should get everything from mouser or digi-key. Ebay is good when you start designing your own stuff and need tons of different values on hand. As far as IC's go, 555,741 op amp, LM386 audio amp, and some 74 series logic are good. 2N3904 and 2N3906 transistors are great, get about 30 of each. Get a couple of voltage regulators to run your projects off of until you get a real bench PSU. Basically you should just find about five projects you want to try and get all the parts for those, when you are just starting its hard to know what parts you need if you have no specific area of interest.
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