#material awareness

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[copper-wires]

Thinking about parts...

So I have been to Olymega downtown a couple times now. Really excited go there more often. The people are lovely and the tool access is grand. These projects I'll be doing require a lot of funky parts, but the book was written with thrift in mind so I'm sure I can strike a good balance between salvaging, borrowing returnables, and buying whatever I can't find for (hopefully) cheap.

Honestly, I'm thinking that one of the best things I might get from this whole ILC is getting to know different parts: what they're called, what they're used for, where, and how to get them. Just getting used to these things is a skill!

I feel like a lot of guys and gals, especially those who grew up with dads around, might take this parts part of understanding electronics for granted. Anyone (woman, man, sharp, or dull) who didn't grow up with an electrical hobbyist around the house will have a foreign relationship with these materials. Anyone who didn't grow up knowing those capacitors, resistors, doo-dads and hobnobbits actually had names and did stuff will have to jump a bit farther to go from reading a parts list to actually identifying things they've never seen before at the store or salvage source. Thank goodness for google images.