Invalid Function » Electronics http://invalidfunction.com We're all insane. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:54:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sparkfun to give away electronics, for free! http://invalidfunction.com/index.php/2009/11/sparkfun-to-give-away-electronics-for-free/ http://invalidfunction.com/index.php/2009/11/sparkfun-to-give-away-electronics-for-free/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:23:43 +0000 Andrew http://invalidfunction.com/?p=96 Yup! And boy am I excited!

Sparkfun Electronics will be giving away $100 dollars of credit for anything you buy from their online store (except gift cards) on Janurary 7th, 2010. What’s the catch? Well, you pay for shipping… and that’s all! Of course they cant just keep giving away stuff, so they free stuff will stop once they hit $100,000 worth of free credits.

I love SparkFun, and recommend them for anyone dealing with electronics. They have great tutorials on everything from how to solder through hole components to building a cheap guitar amplifier using opamps.

I’m still working on my latest project. More on that later ;)
Andrew

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Head over to Gerrit’s post about a simple DIY tool that can change your life when it comes to manually soldering even the smallest SMD packages. With almost no money you can make something that keeps those small parts in place while you solder them to the board. I haven’t yet gotten into the world of SMD packages, but I will definitely try this out when my next project comes around!

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