What are your favorite electronic parts?

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Same senpai.

I fucking love LEDs

i bought a led strip from walmart, now my desk flashes like a window from one of those ghetto cellular stores.

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Nixie tubes!

LEDs are fine but nothing beats that orange glow of neon.

>>52257965
I love the colors of the rainbow. Red, yellow, green, green, blue, and white.

>>52258269
This

>>52258269

Those are neat but the fanbase around them is DISGUSTING.

Comparable to the snakeoil audio freaks and boomer corvette enthusiasts.

>>52257965
>>52258295
FAG ENABLERS

Transistors

Because after a CE degree you're all like "holy fuck you can build an entire CPU out of these fuckers", except RAM...

>>52258536
SRAM..

>>52257965
There just shitty cold cathodes!

I like batteries that you can test without putting em in a device

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>>52258579

Its not really a part, but for the same reasons as y'all like parts, I appreciate coil whine. Because of something a babysitter said when I was young, I've always thought of coil whine as a electronic device breathing.

>>52258639
>>52258579

I expected regular 9V battery being tested with tongue.

I really like electromagnetic relays

>>52257965
I like click buttons, but the best has to be pwm controllers

Switches that actually have some travel distance and actuate with a satisfying *CLUNK*.

>>52258729
tic toc tic toc tic toc

gah orange led fans are a nightmare to find.
trying to do a black/Orange build

>>52259212
I'd just go with orange, black or clear fans and orange LED strips instead, that's probably your best bet.

>>52259212
Then get neon lamps instead of LEDs and run them straight from the mains.

>>52259296
>>52259300
i have a black case just trying to deck it out with fans. that mobos are pretty much only red leds kinda made this a headache

>>52259371
Well RGB lighting on motherboards is just starting to pick up...

>>52259406
im quite surprised at that.
i figured they would have done that long ago since leds have been around since the first home pc.

>>52258362
>the fanbase around them is DISGUSTING.
And jack the prices up on what are essentially interesting oddities. What is out there is surplus stock of an outdated technology. It should be pretty cheap stuff, but instead were seeking comic book collector pricing.

>>52257965
fuck yeah

>>52259484
Especially now that they are so efficient. A small SMD part can easily match the light output of a standard 5mm LED from a few years ago.

gfto everybody,

LED is MY waifu.

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>>52258269
Came here to say that. Dekatrons are also pretty interesting, although people generally make pointless spinners out of them rather than driving them in more interesting ways.
Here's using one as the seconds counter on a nixie tube clock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix7sjQ0FRpU

>>52257965
I got all my twinkly light nonsense out as a child. I'm sorry your parents never decorated your house for Christmas. Get over it tho.

Me too senpai, I want my room to look like the fucking bladerunner set.

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>>52259212
Why is orange in fashion right now? I've been trying to find some orange parts on Taobao for a while now and everything's sold out. Most of the orange keycaps are overpriced right now as well. Wtf happened that made orange so popular?

>>52264762
are there any companies that make small batches of nixie tubes for replacements?
I would imagine they probably wouldn't have the biggest market but hobbyists are always looking for tubes

>>52257965
>yellow LED
aw shit nigger, what the fuck are you do...
>next to a red LED
We're all going to die!

>>52265536
must be sad to be such a bitter faggot

>>52266272
Grow up

>>52266380
>not appreciating the small things in life
You're actually the opposite of the wise man you're trying so hard to emulate.
I seriously hope (for you) you're just shitposting.

>>52258729
This.
Best are those videos where people build CPUs off from relays and your hear them clicking when they are working... Just awesome

Microswitches. Fuck I love pushing a good button

Leds and condensers make me hard as a rock

>>52259212
Wait, if red LEDs make your computer go faster what do orange ones do?

>>52267163
make it smell fruity

I gotta say it dude

I fucking love LEDs too. Trying to build a nice lookin PC atm, got an h440 coming in the mail and a white LED fan. That back lighting gets me rock solid. Gonna try getting a nice black and subtly red MSI board and mmmf

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>>52257965
I like tiny photo-diodes when they are put in arrays a few thousand elements on each side.

integrats

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Gotta say...

>>52257965
When I was a kid I could spend a lot of time just staring at a large circuit board like a motherboard.

I would imagine it being like a city with powerplants and other buildings, roads, houses.

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>>52268620

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>>52268605
Same guy here.
Mobile resistors are the shit

>>52268620
Glad I'm not the only one.

LED COBs

>>52258362
>caring about fanbases of any kind at all

I l-like multimeters and passive adapters for DA/AD shit

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ima a romantic

>>52259212

Just get regular LED fans and swap the LEDs out

If you can't do that you shouldn't be on /g/

>>52268642

I opened this thinking it was an ancient Roman city or something

>>52259212
Orange is hard to find? I want amber leds and all I can find is fucking tangelo.

Condensator is the best, I can charge it and shock random people. They all think I have superpowers

>>52258269
Why the fuck are they so expensive?

>>52270016
I think they're not being manufactured anymore. There are just some remaining stockpiles from the soviet union.

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Whipped this up last night

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>>52267163