Mouser carts for KOS2020 (and a bit about wikis)

Did you ask for a wiki discussion, or did someone edit the title? (asking for one thing in the post and two things in the title seems like the perfect way to get people to talk about a third thing :smiley:)

TBH, re the discussion in the thread, building exhaustive wikis and keeping them up to date, and building component carts that work for people in multiple locations and keeping them up to date (*) both require tons of volunteer manpower, and I don’t think many DIY communities have enough people to do that.

So I’d say your best bet is to invest a little time in figuring out how to read BOMs, get an idea of what’s important and not with the specified components, and map that to your favourite local supplier’s stores (see this topic for tips on component sources). You’ll amortize that over all the things you’ll ever build in the future, so it’s definitely time well spent. And this forum is full of people who are happy to help you with concrete questions, and provide tips & tricks; it’s the larger “is there robust documentation that answers all my questions” bits that are trickier to deliver :smiley:

*) see this thread for what happens when carts/overly specific BOMs go stale.

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