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I pretty much go to Digikey and Mouser but Ive been all over the map on others looking for parts. Nice thing about Mouser is they give an expected date on inventory. eBay scares me for semis, not so much for connectors and discretes. I was looking there and everything is out of China and I see some ...

And so it waits again. I was preparing to order boards and parts and over my vacation two key components with no direct substitutes went from literally thousands to zero in distribution. Expected dates from Mouser are Oct for stock and I am seeing expected dates from June that they cant fulfill. Its...

Im glad you pointed out Easypcb. I never found them in a search before. I might try them for my current project rather than be locked into a fixed quantity I usually get with Oshpark, and they wont be purple. I used to work for a local PCB shop here; I miss the days of harsh chemicals, FR4 dust and ...

Well this might suck. https://itead.cc/eol-pcb/

Guess Im back to trying Seed Studio

I havent posted any updates on this project for awhile since I've been juggling other projects that took priority. I spent some time on my long weekend to move this to something that I can actually make available. Over the past few months since I first built the prototype, I found that the IC's I us...

A new study conducted by MIT scientists and released this week reveals that the six foot social distancing and limited occupancy guidelines made law in most of the civilized world Made law? Where? I guess not the U.S., maybe Canada or Europe. Even in the third reich of PA it's a mandate. Mandates a...

Could have seen this one coming.........

https://nypost.com/2021/04/12/microchip ... -covid-19/

The vaccine passport is a privacy, government control issue... (show us your papers)... This seems in contradiction of HIPPA laws and now the administration knowing they cant do it legally are hinting that private industry should do it for them... Covid has blown the lid off HIPAA in so many ways. ...

And now the push for a vaccine passport is becoming a daily news item........ One more thing to interfere with my 3rd attempt at a vacation in 2 years.

And here I was avoiding bats all along. Well, by now the original whistle blowers are either in a labor camp or have become underground fertilizer.