I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

[Alex555]

I just bought ten 630 tie point breadboards for about $3.50 each on eBay, free shipping. I will have the father of all breadboards, at least once they arrive. The mother of all breadboards has 26.

[arupbsk]

Opamp, dc-dc converter, audio amplifier, some 0603 capacitors.

All these bought from SM Electronics, who is Indian distributor for Mouser. Buying directly from mouser attracts $40 shipping, tension of customs, etc. Buying from them attracts little charge and it's good for small orders. My current order was near $10-12 only.

[matseng]

Picked up this at SEG market @ Shenzhen with the help from Eric at Seeedstudio.

5 meter of addressable RGB LEDs with PWM in waterproof flexi strip for 150 RMB = USD 24 total. Adafruit charges 150 USD for 5 meters of a similar strip (about 30 leds per meter). This strip got LPD6803S as the LED controller chips.

5 meters of individually addressable RGB leds

Three full reels each with 3000 pcs of 0805 leds, red, green and yellow... 513 RMB = 82 USD in total. Eric was not too happy about the price but I accepted it anyways...

Reels of 3000 each of Red, Green and Yellow 0805 SMD leds

[heathkid]

It would be great if people included links to where they bought things. Several things I'd like to buy too... but am having trouble finding a source.

[voidptr]

I finally received my encoder from Ebay :o)
and I send a message for the seller for the datasheet last week ....
until now no answer, so I think few people here already used them ...
I know it is 2 bits gray code plus a switch so it will be easy to find out, but still
having the specs will be nice ...

do you have the datasheet handy ?

I also remember to see an eagle part in the blog, was it done for those litte encoder ?
:-)
I also ordered a bunch of stuff from ebay, so I will get few Xmas packages in my mailbox :o)

[Alex555]

Heathkid, you can just ask for a link if there is a specific item you previously saw that you want. I will post links for any other things I post here now as well.

[hak8or]

Buy_1

Bam! :D
A very good microbiology textbook for only 12 bucks including shipping. Used, one edition old (basically a year old), and quite a bit of highlighting.
An iphone 5 for 200 which I will flip for around 700, netting me 500 bucks which will go towards a proper biology microscope, like one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004X3 ... d_i=507846
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UM ... d_i=507846
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005TJ ... d_i=507846
or this guy if I find a similar one on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/amScope-40x-200 ... 7675.l2557

And the rest of the money will go towards paying off my parents mortgage. A pretty good "investment" considering it will give me a good yield, tax free, and 100% safe! Yes, paying off a mortgage early can be considered an investment.

And here comes the tiny thing in the bottom of the picture, my PCB's from OSH park. The guy or gal there is extremely helpful, helped me out by telling me which files I should generate from altium, and even canceled an order of mine by request after it was panelized! I will be doing all my PCB buys from OSH park from now on.

PCBBUY_1

[bearmos]

parts and PCB's for the the cnc controller that's in the works:

IC's, resistors, caps, etc

an approximately list of parts bought, all source through digikey:
3 620-1352-1-ND IC DRIVER MICROSTEPPING 24-TSSOP
10 TC33X-104ECT-ND TRIMMER 100K OHM 0.1W SMD
2 296-12111-1-ND IC MUX/DEMUX TRIPLE 2X1 16TSSOP
4 277-1721-ND CONN TERM BLOCK T/H 2POS 3.5MM
2 PIC16F1826-I/SS-ND IC PIC MCU FLASH 2K 20-SSOP
20 CRM2512-FX-R100ELFCT-ND RES .100 OHM 2W 1% 2512 SMD
50 587-1287-1-ND CAP CER 0.22UF 50V 10% X7R 0805
100 311-1.74KCRCT-ND RES 1.74K OHM 1/8W 1% 0805 SMD
100 311-2.00KCRCT-ND RES 2.00K OHM 1/8W 1% 0805 SMD
100 311-4.99KCRCT-ND RES 4.99K OHM 1/8W 1% 0805 SMD
100 A106054CT-ND RES 10.0K OHM 1/8W 1% 0805
100 A106052CT-ND RES 100K OHM 1/8W 1% 0805
100 311-200KCRCT-ND RES 200K OHM 1/8W 1% 0805 SMD
100 311-499CRCT-ND RES 499 OHM 1/8W 1% 0805 SMD
100 311-825CRCT-ND RES 825 OHM 1/8W 1% 0805 SMD
2 IFX27001TF V50INCT-ND IC REG LDO 5V 1A TO252-3
2 609-4006-ND DSUB R/A US 25POS PIN
100 A106066CT-ND RES 0.0 OHM 1/8W JUMPER 0805
100 490-1666-1-ND CAP CER 0.1UF 50V 10% X7R 0805
100 490-1664-1-ND CAP CER 10000PF 50V 10% X7R 0805
20 475-1407-1-ND LED CHIPLED 570NM GREEN 1206 SMD
10 475-1416-1-ND LED CHIPLED 645NM RED DIFF 1206
10 WM4200-ND CONN HEADER 2POS .100 VERT TIN
10 311-1460-1-ND CAP CER 10UF 10V 10% X5R 0805
10 493-1107-ND CAP ALUM 100UF 50V 20% RADIAL
10 B0520WS-FDICT-ND DIODE SCHOTTKY 20V 0.5A SOD323
2 296-1196-1-ND IC BUFF/DVR TRI-ST DUAL 20SOIC

(that list is tab separated if you're extra curious and want to throw it into a spreadsheet to make it readable)

PCB's sourced from Hackvana

PCB order from Hackvana

[dpropicweb]

or this guy if I find a similar one on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/amScope-40x-200 ... 7675.l2557

Beware the Amscope cameras - a year or so ago when I bought my Amscope stereo microscope I also researched their cameras and it appeared that they provided less than satisfactory results.

[JuKu]

talking about cameras, this is on its way to me:

[bearmos]

talking about cameras, this is on its way to me:

tiny! do you have a p\n or link?

[JuKu]

On Ebay, "endoscope". I bought http://dx.com/p/waterproof-usb-2-0-300kp-cmos-4-led-illuminated-snake-camera-endoscope-7m-length-105669.

[bearmos]

thanks.

[t0mpr1c3]

Took advantage of Rapid's 10GBP free shipping offer to order some cheap copper clad and the little aluminium fronted project boxes I like.

[Sal_The_Tiller]

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Bam! :D
A very good microbiology textbook for only 12 bucks including shipping. Used, one edition old (basically a year old), and quite a bit of highlighting.
An iphone 5 for 200 which I will flip for around 700, netting me 500 bucks which will go towards a proper biology microscope, like one of these:
*snip*

Hey, another biology nerd! Where did you pick up that Micro textbook? I'll be needing one myself fairly soon.