Homebrew PCBs

Eh, ideas are cheap.

No-one has done it before because it's too hard to do.  It's a lot of work
even to do it with a few suppliers and a few hundred parts, been there, done
that.

First you need to obtain the catalog for every supplier, (& keep it up to
date, including specials), then you need to cross-reference all of the
individual parts across suppliers, then allow for price breaks and
discounts, and we haven't even gotten to shipping yet.

Try it with something 'trivial', like just listing 5W resistors from a half
a dozen suppliers.  You'd be surprised at how long it takes.

Tony


> Rats. Another great idea ruined by the inconvenient fact that someone else
got there
> first. Sigh. In addition to the world arranging itself to meet my needs, I
would like it
> also to arrange itself to meet my timing! :)
> 
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "javaguy11111" <javaguy11111@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Jack Coats <jack@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Looks like you have an 'opertunity' here.  Develop a 'shopping' site
that
> > > can access the
> > > available inventory of each of the vendors, and give a 'least overall
cost'
> > > shopping list
> > > with spreadsheets or forms that could be faxed or emailed to each
vendor.
> >
> > I have found findchips.com to be pretty good for this kind of thing.
> >