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Parts List for Small Projects

NewbieNewbie Posts: 5
edited 2006-04-30 20:24 in General Discussion
I was wondering if anyone could suggest a parts list ( a sort of must-haves ) from Radio Shack... I am new to this and just want to have some flexability in designing some small projects.

My areas of interest are:

Motor Control
Solar
RF Communications
Sensors (temperature light etc)

I have a BS2 Discovery Kit and want to swing by Radio Shack and grab some things I would find useful.· Any suggestions?

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Comments

  • Jon WilliamsJon Williams Posts: 6,491
    edited 2006-04-30 19:45
    I always stock up on five resistor values: 220, 470, 1K, 4.7K, and 10K -- these are useful in many designs.

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    Applications Engineer, Parallax
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2006-04-30 20:24
    Get some small caps, some larger ones, photodiodes or photoresistors(whatever you prefer, really) a bag of LEDs(several colours if possible), maybe some transistors, diodes and relays?
    ULN2803 is a nice chip Darlington array for control-purposes.

    Other than that, I always order two or three times the number of any component I'm buying. I figure that if I use it once, I might use it again, and shipping for just a few components is often more than what the components themselves costs.

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