somewhere along the way i think we lost sight of the fact that it's totally okay to just sell things to people for them to make, or at least it was realized that you can charge a lot more with less overhead to just make in a factory somewhere than give people the pieces. what shreds me is that you can't go to a store nowadays and just...buy electrical components? like, _maybe_ you'll find a radioshack that's still open? if you pray? it's such a lost artchthonicOrchid wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 7:15 pm see i understand why we DONT have commercial electronics sold to us like this anymore, but i would kill to have this level of trust given to me as a consumer today, in literally any capacity.
S100 computer appreciation thread
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Re: S100 computer appreciation thread
While I wish there were more B&M component shops still around, I don't think it's much of an excuse. People like ordering other stuff online, they should feel comfortable doing the same with components. Like there's Mouser, Digikey, Newark, Jameco, Sparkfun, the list just goes on and on.
I can understand the thought process of "we don't want people to hurt themselves" but really the only dangerous part of most electronics is the power supply. With the vast majority of circuits running off standards like 9V and +/- 24V it'd be easy to supply kits to build everything aside from PSU whether it shipped with the kit or is a "supply your own".
I believe the largest issue is that the vast majority of people have been led to believe that the skills necessary for electronics are just too complex. When that couldn't be further from the truth. Like soldering is not hard. Reading schematics and resistor colour codes takes a couple days to learn. While miniaturization does make things more difficult, unless you're working on a phone I'd say the vast majority of people have the fine motor skills to deal with components.
I can understand the thought process of "we don't want people to hurt themselves" but really the only dangerous part of most electronics is the power supply. With the vast majority of circuits running off standards like 9V and +/- 24V it'd be easy to supply kits to build everything aside from PSU whether it shipped with the kit or is a "supply your own".
I believe the largest issue is that the vast majority of people have been led to believe that the skills necessary for electronics are just too complex. When that couldn't be further from the truth. Like soldering is not hard. Reading schematics and resistor colour codes takes a couple days to learn. While miniaturization does make things more difficult, unless you're working on a phone I'd say the vast majority of people have the fine motor skills to deal with components.