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When you buy components, buy a bag of them. Good for when you let the smoke out of one, and you can have several projects on the go at a time.
@RandomUser @Mammothmothman
Problem with doing that is sooner or later you are going to end up with piles of stuff like esp12f's and such. I have more packaging tubes of ATtiny85's than I will ever use.
When I started there was lots of smoke 😀 it's true that you can easily accumulate random stuff, but I still think it's better to have spares of the things I use than risking running out and waiting for a delivery. Maybe I'm just disorganised.
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Oh I have spares, probably spares for the spares too. I seldom had smoke but do remember hooking electrolytic caps backwards a few times. The bang will get your attention.
They do not smoke but I found if you plug an ATtiny85 backwards they will burn your hand when you attempt to remove them.