DigiKey has about every component that exists in the universe. That’s great, but a bit overwhelming. Start your search by using a more hobby-oriented shop like Sparkfun or Bitsbox. There you’ll find the most standard transistors, resistors, and capacitors that usually work for most beginner...
and the routing of ceramic capacitors: while the tantalums use the same 3-hole pinout as on the original board, the middle pin being ground so that they cannot be fitted the wrong way during the assembly process, all ceramic capacitors on the clone board follow the same 3-hole ceter groun...
This space savings can also be applied to discrete components such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors, each in pre-sized recesses in the double-layered or multilayered PCB in other embodiments of the invention. Cooling can be improved for the unique board in the described embodiments by ...
How about an Arduino board http://www.arduino.cc/ , a mini breadboard, and a selection of wires and components like LEDs, buzzers, resistors, capacitors, etc. FeX32 (Mechanical) 1 Aug 11 23:47 I like jhardy1's suggestion of the Arduino. I used it a few times before. The first...