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From: Jessica Stanley <jessica.g.stanley@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:51:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] electronics purchasing tips

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 # Tips for buying electronic components
+Unless you are buying a pre-packaged kit, buying electronic components can be a bit of a pain. It means scrolling through electronics websites, peering at item listings which often don't have photos and are a bit unclear. In the past I have:
 
+* Ordered entirely the wrong kind of IC for a Stitch Synth module because it had one additional letter in its name
+* Ordered 50 of a component instead of 5, because it wasn't clear that putting 'one' component in my shopping basket meant 'one set of 10'
 
+One thing that helps is to look at the datasheet of the thing you're trying to buy.
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