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posted by martyb on Tuesday December 17 2019, @06:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the Which-way-to-Millinocket?-(p6V2Ew1M0sE) dept.

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 Since the maps in the guide are now quite out of date, I figure it’s not worth re-printing the guide.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.


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday December 17 2019, @09:59PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 17 2019, @09:59PM (#933446) Journal

    By the time I had bought all the breadbords, jumper wires, assorted resistor and capacitor packs, a few displays, power supplies, etc from Amazon, at good prices . . .

    THEN MicroCenter decides to start stocking some of these parts, at top dollar prices.

    I did buy a few more odds and ends there, just because I could have it in my hand that day.

    I suppose if there are local area classes being taught that require students to get some of these items, it would make sense for MicroCenter to now be stalking stocking them.

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