I did my first Mouser Electronics order in quite a while. I bought some special Pots to fix and restore my original, American made Mackie 1202. It's been a back-burner project for quite some time.
I also paid my first Tariff that I'm aware of. They had a line-item for it. It wasn't a huge order and the estimated Tariff was about $2.50, but still...
FUCK THE CHEETOH.
Mixers are just inherently cool.
I hate tariffs and I hate that Trump is president. But I love businesses splitting out the tariff surcharge. That way, anyone paying it knows exactly whom to blame.
@Professor_Stevens For sure.
It was just nice to do another Mouser order. Back in the day I was doing 2 a month.
Before Mouser, there was Jameco (earlier, James, and ever more earlier, Allied). I ordered my first 7400-series TTL chips and some LEDs from those guys. Made a four-bit binary adding machine, even, when I was 15 years old.
Those were the days, eh?
@Professor_Stevens I still order from Jameco.
Back in the day when I was building projects from Popular Electronics I could get most of what I needed from Radio Shack.
Mouser is my main go-to, and Digikey is 2nd.
We travel in similar circles. My other two go-tos are Adafruit and Gigaparts.
Tubes! My God, man, if I ever have to work with tubes again, it will be twenty-billion years too soon.
Transistors, baby. They're the future.
@Professor_Stevens But they (transistors) were invented by a Eugenicist. 🙂
Tubes breathe fire and shit. I love them.
I have everything I need to finish this tube mic preamp but I haven't committed to the build yet. Ideally I need a drill press because I don't want to suffer through drilling holes by hand again.
Well, Shockley appears to have snapped some time after he helped invent the transistor, though who knows when those seeds were planted?
@Professor_Stevens Yeah, I think it came after the invention, but it is a thing.
As is the transistor. 🙂
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