I’ve started an effort to sort and catalogue our inventory of ICs stored in tubes.
For now this box has a nice home on the SMD resistor filing cabinet. There is a corresponding google sheet containing part numbers, approximate quantity, description, and which section the tube is stored in.
Background
My hope is that people can browse the sheet, find some neat parts, and then will design boards with them. Otherwise the value of these parts can’t be realized and there’s no point in storing them.
There was a previous effort in cataloguing these but it looks like they focussed on the parts bins (not the IC tubes) and didn’t really get to documenting the locations of things.
Want to help?
- Go through the “unsorted” section of the box, add the part to the google sheet, and move it to the appropriate section. I only got through about 75% of them.
- Build a better container for these out of wood, poster tubes, or something. Ideally we would have at least 10 categories.
Mystery components
These ones appear to be custom, require erasing, or are just too obscure to keep. If nobody minds, I’ll toss them in the 3week bin to be recycled.
