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Bottom feeder extaordinaire! Never stopped that either.. accumulating parts that fall through the cracks on eBay..Esp8266, nanos, power transistors, switches.. if I can get it super cheap I grab and shelve it. That being said it made loading moving truck... Tedious.. as I decided to sort to some extent while packing
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There's a place in Ohio (at least a distro point) resistorpark.com with eBay-like prices and details/support to match. That's a 2 day ship for you or me.
ESP modules under $4, bootloaded 328P $2.23, 16MHz crystal but w/o the caps -- is $1 high?
AVR prices dropped, dunno if you've seen. Microchip bought Atmel. Mouser sold 1284P around $5.50 in July, that was $7 for years before. I dunno what you think of the 1284P though but I bought 2.