Inspired by this years Maker Faire (and the nature of my job) sees me needing to make a decicive move towards understanding a bit more of electronics. An Arduino has been ordered, and I have been inspired to design and build a musical instrument, using an aluminium bowl, a bag of ball bearings and a few stepper moters I have liberated of an old dot matrix printer from the warehouse at work. The sad thing is, it seems like I am a few decades too late. Getting microelectronic parts that aren't surface mount or £5 delivery charge seems nearly impossible. I went to Maplins for a bag of transistor, and they only had 4!! This is a shame, cause it means people are going to find it hard in the comming years to get into electronics, meaning all hardware development will be taken abroad, just like every other industry we have ever had! Yikes!
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