What a headache! I dig through boxes until I find it! As far as computerized inventory tracking, I have almost zilch. I have a few old BOMs lying around. I keep datasheets for parts I own in different directories from other parts. I try to keep the files named so that I can find them when I need them, but often it is just as easy to re-download it, than look through my directories of datasheets. I am terribly disorganized about this. Nobody knows what I have, including me.
* I keep unfinished projects in clear plastic "shoeboxes" that you get for about a buck at discount stores. * Except for projects that are too big, so I have some cardboard boxes too * And large plastic tubs * Sometimes I clean up my bench and used a clear plastic "shoebox" for that, or a cardboard box, or a large tub. * I have a couple of three ring binders, with clear plastic pocket pages for parts that can be filed in order * I also have tons of those clear plastic do-dads whose base is the next one's lid. * And some tiny little flip-top dingers that I found in China * And many cut-tapes rubber-banded together * A few reels here and there (.01µF anyone?) * And some auto parts store style bolt bins * A bookshelf full of random sample kits * Drawers with IC's stuck in foam * Let's not forget those clear acrylic-drawer organizers * And a bunch of other plastic (abs?) multi drawer organizers * Fishing tackle boxes * I try to keep dev-kits in their original box I sure wish that at some stage in the design workflow (the step between gschem and PCB perhaps), I could somehow cleverly integrate part (footprint) selection (from my inventory). Then maybe I would take an inventory. Sigh. > > How do people manage their parts inventories, so they know what > > they've got? > > > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user