In my humble opinion, it is much better to concieve a couple (or more) projects or areas of interest you would like to work with and then get the parts neede for those. Otherwise you easily end up with stuff you'll never use.
But things that come to mind is:
Parts for controling DC / stepper motors, like H bridge IC's and high current drivers (ULNXXX series for instance)
Some kind of optical sensors like IR sensors to detect "stuff passing by".
Temperature sensors.
Relays to control high voltage / current loads
And of course a set of basic stuff like resistors in common values, LED's, a handful of potentiometers, some switches, some capacitors, some diodes, and some transistors.
In my humble opinion, it is much better to concieve a couple (or more) projects or areas of interest you would like to work with and then get the parts neede for those. Otherwise you easily end up with stuff you'll never use.
I agree with this advice. I wouldn't buy a lot of stuff unless you know the projects
or at least the types of projects you are going to do.
A couple of suggestions --
2N3904 and 2N3906 will give you generic NPN and PNP
(You could add a BC548C (NPN) and BC557C (PNP) for more gain)
N and P channel TO-92 and TO-220 device.
Don't have any specific part numbers here. I would
go to On-Semi and pick some parts.
1N4148 signal diode
LM317 adjustable regulator. This will let you build most
and supply voltage you want.
When you need to replace logic devices I would get AHC series logic.
These will give you 5V tolerant inputs in case you need to mix
5V and 3V3 logic systems.
I would get 1% resistors. They are not much more expensive
than 5% but can be much more useful.
Single supply op-amp. I have been using the TI TLC272ACP.
I just looked at the parts in your list. I can't believe your school made you buy a 741, DAC08 and MC1408. I hope they didn't charge you too much. Those are very old technologies.
You didn't state if you own any test equipment or not. Certainly a nice digital multimeter is something you should purchase before any component parts. An adjustable DC power supply is nice also, but that usually makes for a nice first construction project rather then buying one outright.
I just looked at the parts in your list. I can't believe your school made you buy a 741, DAC08 and MC1408. I hope they didn't charge you too much. Those are very old technologies.
(* jcl *)
Yeah All those chips + random other stuff was like $88
But its mainly just to go along with the heath kit book's and experiment's
Yeah i have test equipment sorry for not mentioning
For my classes i was forced to buy an Elenco electronic trainer
