Re:Lean Prototyping Techniques for Hardware
by mercuryrising on Thursday November 15, 2012 @05:42PM
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I'm working on making a 3D printer to speed it up (and to force me to learn CAD). But most of the stuff I do is electronic, so if I don't have a specific part that a) I don't have, and b) the surplus store doesn't have, then I need to wait a while and pay $7 in shipping for a $0.35 part.
If I had more money where the $7 convenience fee of storing the junk at someone else's house wasn't a big deal, I would totally keep it all there. It's kind of like Amazon Glacier, it takes a while to get it, and it's expensive, but you can put everything there. If it's on disk drives in your garage you can store a bunch, but it takes a little bit to find. If it's on SSD storage on your desk, it's the quickest to iterate, but then everything is right there.
If I had more money where the $7 convenience fee of storing the junk at someone else's house wasn't a big deal, I would totally keep it all there. It's kind of like Amazon Glacier, it takes a while to get it, and it's expensive, but you can put everything there. If it's on disk drives in your garage you can store a bunch, but it takes a little bit to find. If it's on SSD storage on your desk, it's the quickest to iterate, but then everything is right there.