[Swansea Hackspace] What do you want from a hackspace?

[Justin Mitchell]

On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 11:54 +0000, Gerrit Niezen wrote:

> I realised halfway through the project that I was missing two SMT
> capacitors, and discovered it's seemingly impossible to buy SMT
> components in Swansea. Shipping from Farnell is not worthwhile if
> you're only looking for two tiny components, and I don't have the
> funds to buy reels just yet. That got me thinking that if I had access
> to a hackspace, we could share reels between us.

I used smt components on my last project and found that the easiest
place to get small quantities of common components was ebay.

But i agree it would be great to have a pool of components and the
potential to group purchase stuff.