Dear Members and Friends of i3Detroit,
This weekend only: Members and friends of i3Detroit will receive free components designed to help you build up the supply needs for the popular Make: Electronics books. No purchase is necessary, just stop by. Once inside the Market, just ask the gentleman at the door where the electronics store is. When you get to our section, just mention you are associated with i3Detroit. Additionally, you will receive generous discounts off most of the products in the store.
Who we are: My name is David Kozin, and I am the co-founder of the new start-up Upcycled Electronics. Our company is concerned with the way we purchase electronic components and how it impacts end of life parts. We want to work to solve this problem before it starts, and provide an alternative that supplies existing components that can do the same thing. Also, your attendance will help validate to my sponsor that Makers do exist, and Makers would buy products if they didn't cost so much money (especially when you add shipping). In addition to the storefront, we have 33,000 square feet of surplus electronics in a warehouse that I want to bring to the market. We have 3 million vacuum tubes, one of the largest collections in the country.
Upcycled Electronics is on a mission to database vintage and military specification surplus electronics components and combine those components into kits, make them available with a store front, and provide the products akin to the same tools and technologies needed by maker space communities without adding to the multi-millions of pounds of electronics waste that groups like Motor City Free Geek is striving to recycle, up-cycle, and reclaim. Additionally, Upcycled Electronics is focused on lowering the barrier to entry for small purchases of high-reliability components (military spec surplus) which are ideal for extreme and toxic environments requiring accurate report-back and durable operation and lifespan.
Recycled Materials + Up-Cycled Components = Eco-Conscious Technologies
The directions are included below, and my number is 313-854-9557. I encourage Makers that are artists including jewelers, sculpture or any interested maker regarding the Gold hybrid circuits to call me for viewing the items. I will give some out to some members with a demonstrated skill and see what can come from such unique items (some have very significant historical significance and come from an engineer.
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I look forward to seeing you there!
2045 DIXIE HIGHWAY WATERFORD, MI 48328
HOURS:
FRIDAY: 4PM – 9PM (readying the store, but you are welcome)
SATURDAY: 10AM – 6PM
SUNDAY: 10AM – 6PM
ATM ON SITE
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Yes. I would like to find a different space with area for reading data sheets, improve organization and stock modern boards, but at this time this is the first physical location.
I hope to make it to the space to work on membership and my idea to construct tree ornaments that are fire detectors using empirically tested circuits for effectiveness at lowest voltage supply and what types of alarms and sensors can be used for the best results. We can use relationships with DTE, DPS and DFD and an experienced grant writer to create a STEM educational event (possibly with DAPCEP) for traditional underprivileged students. This allows kids from k-12 opportunity for creating the ornaments with easy snap on versions or more advanced soldering and at best we may save a life and produce a STEM educational lesson making something special with sponsorship by DPS and DTE on fire safety. The design can be adapted to include symbols other than tree ornaments and simply act as stationary fire alarms. This is were our stock in flame proof and S-level reliability resistors and other components will come in handy for testing.
To be frank, I am trying to assemble some kits and just clean my Lab area.
You can message me directly if you have thoughts, and particularly the jewelry makers, because it is unnecessary to drive that far for a container of 22+k gold long legged beautiful open hybrid circuits that I would love to see as a wearable. I have many of the specs on these pieces which provide exciting dimension to the pieces.
I read this small piece, and I thought how life would have been different if JS Pitman and his Strunkian view of circuits ruled the final design.
I love old Radio and Hobby magazines and this was a gem. It is a letter to the Correspondence section of Radio- Electronics December 1961.
Dear editor,
I was rather surprised to see an article like "electronic ignition for your car" in the September 1961 issue. Admittedly, a transistorized ignition system is a fun project worthy of discussion if it is properly designed. However, proper design involves, among other things, the use of as simple circuit as possible that will do the job efficiently and reliably. How can a little black box that contains one Transformer, two transistors, 12 resistors, 8 rectifiers, 7 capacitors, 1 thybertron and a thermal relay be considered simple or reliable? There are too many parts to malfunction.
As if this weren't enough, there is a Rube Goldberg buzzer "quick start" and, when this produces undesirable side effects you file off the leading edge of the distributor rotor. Such articles would be better left to the electronics section of one of the backyard mechanics magazine.
J.S. Pitman