Radio Shack has a surprising amount of electronics supplies and books. 
Get a copy of their big catalog. Most stores don't stock the stuff but 
they will order it for you. 

Some stuff is of a very professional grade with embedded CPUs, fiber 
optics, data loggers, and the books to explain them. 


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 7/19/01, 9:22:42 AM, Yaron <jethro at freakzilla.com> wrote regarding 
[TCLUG] OT: Electronics Hackers?.sdm:


>   Hey,

> Ok, my knowledge off electronics is enough for me to know how to replace
> LEDs on my machine when they die or are too boring. But that's pretty 
much
> it (ie, I can solder somewhat, and I know how to reconnect wires).

> When I was at The Shack getting new LEDs, I saw one of those LED-Basr
> things (you know, thing that has 8 LEDs in a row) and I thought, wouldn't
> it be cool to put that on and geet a Knight Rider thing going when the
> power was on? Or when the HDD gets accessed? Now, I know enough THEORY to
> know that you need something that'll take the power in from one LED and,
> uh, round-robin it between 8 LEDs. I know how to tell DNS to do that, but
> not real hardware.

> I know a lot of people on the list are electronics geeks (what's 
happening
> with the analog RAM meter, btw?) so I figured I'd ask. Is there like a
> Beginner's Guide to Hacking Electronics website or something?

> TIA,


> -Yaron

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