False economy
2008-08-19 03:31:26.682713+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Argh. Should remember that saving gas by going to Radio Shack rather than driving up to HSC is a false economy. These huge 50v 1µf capacitors, I bought out their stock of 4(!) at $1.19 each, I'm sure they're a dime a piece at HSC, I'd have bought several handfuls, and when I found myself mis-soldering or breaking leads I wouldn't be delicately trying to save components.
I had the RS-232 chips around, and will probably end up being tied to cheap microcontrollers rather than PCs in the end, so I went that way, but the device has a USB port on it just for power during the prototyping phase. That feels kind of right in a very wrong way.