Hi Wouter,
    You're well beyond a typical user; I'm not surprised you can use a lot
more parts than me :)
    For me, what works best with resistors is to start with the 20 value
assortment; about 20 of each value, and buy ~100 of the ones I use up.  That
way I always have what I need, and for some values I still have 10 year old
resistors from my original 20, and for others I buy a pack of 100 every
year.

    I've been looking at your Dwarf boards and I'm interested in buying a
set, but I have some questions:
    To tie things back to the original topic, can you supply extra header
connectors to make my own daughter boards so I won't have to order them from
somewhere else at another shipping cost?
    Do you have a board to connect to a matrix keypad?

    I've never used ZPL or Jal.  Will I be able to develop my code in MPLAB
as I normally do and use the bootloader to load the code?

Thanks,
  Jason





----- Original Message -----
From: "Wouter van Ooijen" <wouter@VOTI.NL>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [OT:] RadioShack Canada S***s


> > > Rule 1:  Never order less than 200 resistors, or less than
> > 10 more of
> > > anything that you need.
> >
> > 200 of the same value?  There are very few values I use 200
> > of in 10 years.
>
> Where I buy resistors 1k cost E 5.00, so I always buy 1k. Earlier I
> bought a 20-value assorted box, I rarely need other values, so over time
> I just bought 1k of most of these values. When I do need another value
> it is often just one or two, so I check the 'assortmen box' I glued
> together from matchboxes 25 years ago when I was salvaging components
> from old television sets. Or I put two of the assorted values in series
> or parallel. It might help that I do mostly digital work, where the
> exact resistor values often do not matter that much.
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
>
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