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- Shoutouts
- Thanks to Mitch (@mitpatterson) for linking to us from his site!
- Alexander linked here too and asked about what to do when family and friends might not be interested in hearing about your latest project.
- Octopart now indexes Digikey as well!
- Electronics porn! Hi res photos of an old Microchip part.
- Light can get into lots of parts and mess them up, not just the ones that are supposed to get erased.
- WOTW
- Discussion
- Stories of audiofools: Green pens to “increase the audio fidelity” of CDs? Ha!
- Jeff from Mighty Ohm posted some awesome pictures of the computer museum down in Austin
- Chris and Jeri Ellsworth started a 555 design contest! Check out the contest site for more details and be sure to start your designs! The deadline is March 1st.
- Zombie magazines! Is Popular Electronics coming back to life? Many veterans remember it fondly, Dave included!

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