[Noisebridge-discuss] End-all-be-all electronics poster?

Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 05:02:26 UTC 2009


great idea! so great, the first question might be:

"perhaps someone has done this already?"

the answer could very well be "no", but if it's "yes", it might save a 
bunch of effort that could otherwise be spent making a useful poster 
that does not yet exist.

i'll google around a bit.

Josh Myer wrote:
> David (dstaff) and I are hanging out next to the e-lab, and I
> mentioned one of my dreams: a collection of pinouts and standards
> (74xx, transistor packages, resistor color codes, etc), all printed
> out relatively small but big enough to read, on laminated sheets, on a
> ring clip.  Then, you just need to grab a quick cheatsheet and flip to
> the right page.
> 
> He made the obvious improvement: just make it a damned poster!  This
> would be really hand, and I'll bet lots of people would love to have
> them.
> 
> The question is then: what belongs on the poster?
> 
> - 74xx pinouts
> - transistor packages (and how to orient them)
> - PIC pinout
> - Atmel/arduino pinout
> - resistor codes (color?)
> - common op amp pinouts (386 and 741)
> - 555 timer (and 556?)
> - common computer pinouts (serial and parallel)
> - LED (which lead is longer)
> 
> What else belongs on here?
> 
> (And who can help with lineart? =) )



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