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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English
Make: Community
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A crop of makers’ materials is ripe for the picking inside this old radio.

Photography by Thomas Arey

DUMPSTER CORNUCOPIA

Reusing components from discarded electronics.

By Thomas Arey

Surface mount components have revolutionized all aspects of the electronics industry. However, they have been somewhat of a mixed blessing for electronics hobbyists. Homebuilders, especially those involved in the radio hobby, are experiencing a shortage of some through-hole (traditional leaded) components.

This parts shortage problem has happened before. The move from vacuum-tube-based technology to transistors, and the subsequent advance of integrated circuits over ...

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