Make: More Electronics

Appendix B. Shopping for Parts

Depending on your budget and your preferences, you have four different ways to acquire components for the experiments in this book:

1. Minimum Shopping. If you disassemble every project after completing it, you can economize on the cost of components by reusing them. The Minimum Shopping list assumes that you’ll proceed on this basis. You will be recycling almost everything. See Minimum Shopping: Experiments 1 Through 14.
2. Moderate Shopping. If you don’t need to keep the test experiments, but you may want to retain a few finished projects that can be fun to play with, the Moderate Shopping List contains the parts that I think you are most likely to require. See Moderate Shopping: Experiments 1 Through 14.
3. Maximum Shopping. ...