[dorkbotpdx-blabber] x0xb0x project and parts

[Jesse Mejia]

The rare parts hunt can be extremely easy if you're willing to pay 
$50-$90 for them:
http://forums.ladyada.net/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=5526

I bought a pack from that guy - as did 3 of my friends. He's legit, 
fast, and the parts are good and packaged well. (Apparently there are 
some not so good x0x parts traders out there.

I'm sure it's a lot cheaper if you use octopart and ebay + whatever 
back alley sourced you may or may not have.. but I took the easy 
route.

We all sprung for his most expensive package. The good stuff. (I 
imagine though that they may all sound about the same - but who knows 
though it's all secret Roland accidental magic. Seriously - these 
things sound nothing like a bass guitar in a rock band. Roland must be 
the single worst gear manufacturer ever - they've never gotten 
ANYTHING right.)

-j

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:01:37 -0700
  Ben Bleything <ben at bleything.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Jesse 
>Mejia<jmejia at tffenterprises.com> wrote:
>> The part sourcing is fairly easy since Limor has parted it out 
>>already
>> with mouser and digikey pn's - apart from some rare parts that I
>> already have (and didn't source myself anyway). . . but that being
>> said - let me know if anyone on this list is either doing the same
>> thing - or interested in doing the same thing and some info sharing
>> could be beneficial.
> 
> I'm pretty interested in this but for the rare parts that I *don't*
> already have and don't really know where to get. In the past I 
>started
> down the path of looking at alternative parts, but quickly got
> overwhelmed.
> 
> On a scale from 1 to "never gonna happen", do you (or anyone) have 
>an
> estimate of exactly how tough it's going to be to source the "rare"
> parts?
> 
> Ben
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