Recent content by Stickman393

Did someone say Sticks?

Call me and optimist. Go ahead. Do it. See what happens *clutches knife by the blade, blood dripping from his fist*

I got mine around the same time as @gtfields13. Our date codes match, which isn't *super* surprising if Jameco is sitting on a bunch of NOS chips. Trying to keep an open mind here: if the chips from AliExpress have the same date codes marked on em, they're likely from the same counterfeit...

DIP-14s anybody? The Motorola is from Jameco. Haven't tested, seems legit. This is a DIP-8 from Jameco: Need to test it. On the plus side, Jameco is about an hours drive from my place. So I can go down there and collectively whip some ass if they turn out to be fakes.

See, that's why you gotta get into making your own boards. Just have everything as SMD and a single huge leaded component.

That's how it's done, son *Salutes*

Fair 'nuff.

Aite, sorry. My bad. I gotta rephrase that. WHO only orders ten resistors from an E3 series value in an order from Tayda?

Selling the revolution back to us. Tale as old as time.

Boy howdy that's a pricy little component.

Who gets just ten resistors from Tayda?

I dunno man. Like I said before: Humans are instant gratification eat sleep fuck murder primates. I don't see that trend as anything more than commercial interests hacking our evolutionary imparatives for their benefit. We like to think we're evolved. We aren't. We know some math and...

It's designed to be that way. Anybody remember the early days of facebook? It wasn't all paid promotions, influencers, instant play videos, etc? You remember the facebook wall? Actually being able to see posts from people that you had friended? It hasn't always been as dystopian as it is...

Peltiers are solid state: build a big enough heat sink and it can passively radiate. No need to deal with the potential of back EMF with a fan motor. Buttttt....well. big heat sinks are fragile. You could always use a small 12vdc fan with its own isolated power supply. Hell, you can...

Thermal mass. It all depends. So...yeah. You can bond these things to a heat sink, but the device itself generally isn't putting out much heat. The second law of thermodynamics is the guy you'll be fighting here: a heat sink will only increase the rate at which your device adapts to ambient...