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Famed hardware hacker Bunnie Huang has published an electronic edition of his Essential Guide to Shenzhen. The PDF version is now available for download free of charge, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. His book is intended to help non-Mandarin speakers navigate the sprawling electronics markets, Hua Qiang Bei, in Shenzen. It specializes in finding components, setting quantities and packaging, agreeing on payments and deliveries, and remembering the vendor's location within the dense mazes.
It’s taken me a long time to get around to doing this, but here’s a link for a free-to-download copy of “The Essential Guide to Shenzhen”. The catalyst that prompted me to finally get around to this is the fact that Crowd Supply is now sold out (I think Adafruit is also sold out, too). Since the maps in the guide are now quite out of date, I figure it’s not worth re-printing the guide. Instead, it may be more useful to publish a link, so that others can swap out the map pages with something more up-to-date and have a swing at making their own derivative works.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday December 17 2019, @09:27PM (1 child)
1. Newegg sucks for hobby electronics. They're great if you want consumer electronics, but if you're trying to build something new and unique, good luck. They have a few listings for e.g. breadboards, but they're listed under "gadgets and wearables" because they don't give a fuck about the entire category.
2. There's an advantage to not having to either pay a $20 delivery fee or wait a week to progress on a project.
3. There's something more fundamental about a society that so devalues inventive hobbies as to make them utterly and completely absent from day-to-day life, that has nothing to do with my personal access.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday December 17 2019, @10:41PM
4. A lot of "hobbyist" shit on Newegg ships from China and it is not only crap, but takes a month to arrive.