March 2015
Beginner
560 pages
20h 38m
English
Content preview from Practical Electronics: Components and Techniques
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Appendix D. Resources
This appendix contains a collection of URLs for electronics distributors, sources for mechanical components, and vendors of surplus components of various types. It also includes a brief discussion of buying electronics components and other items from vendors on eBay, with some guidance and caveats.
This is not a comprehensive list, just the companies I am familiar with. This is not an endorsement for any particular company or product line.
Note that many of the sources listed here carry more than just what the list heading might imply, and some sources appear in more than one category to reflect the diversity of things they offer. Major distributors, for example, carry everything from passive components to hand tools and test equipment. Other companies, such as Adafruit and SparkFun, are more focused on the maker and hobbyist markets, but they too carry a wide range of products.
Software
Open Source Schematic Capture Tools
Itecad |
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Oregano |
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Open Schematic Capture (OSC) |
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TinyCAD |
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XCircuit |
CAE Software Tools
DesignSpark |
Free, not open source |
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Eagle |
Free, not open source |
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Fritzing |
Free CAE tool |
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gEDA |
Open source CAE tools |
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KiCad |
Open source CAE tool |
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