Another way to store your electronics components
As a response to yesterday’s Workshop Video on how we stock our parts, Alvaro made a video of his own storage system. He predominately uses portable boxes, which have 4 removable compartmentalized containers.
We also talked with Alvaro at the Bay Area Maker Fair 2012, and his wireless friend finder project.
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Good stuff Alvaro. I have the same small boxes to store tiny parts. This is mine for now.
When the binder with grab bag resistors is shown, what is the original intended purpose for the plastic pages in the binder? Something related to photography like a slide, negative or print holder? For coin collections?
I have always wanted to use the photograph type or business card types, but everywhere I can find them locally they are quite expensive. I’ve never really investigated online.
The ones I use are for protecting paper sheets in a binder. Normally you slide 2 sheets back to back. They come in packs of 50 for 2 or 3 bucks (when I can find them, I’ve seen photo holder for 1-3 bucks each).
I believe they are business card holders. You can probably get them at an office supply store.
A direct link to those storage boxes would be nice :) Preferably on ebay from china ;)
I cant find them anywhere online, sadly. I bought them at the Home Depot a few years ago but haven’t seen them since.
Here in Canada I found a 4-part organizer with carrying case like you describe in your video yesterday on sale for ~$18 at Canadian Tire. Perfect storage solution as I start into the “Make:Electronics” book from MAKE. Thanks for the tip!
I think coin pocket binder pages would also be useful for storing taped resistors:
http://www.bcwsupplies.com/products/coin-pages/
Various types are available on eBay.