EHW Headphone / Earphone Club

[iamjanco]

6 hours ago, Kaz said:

I got about 20% though the BOM and decided screw it, and just bought a kit.  A smarter man would have written a program to find all the parts.  Overall I'm not sure I saved much/anything from buying a pre-built, but it was fun to build. 

 

Yeah, I get you (I've been around a while  ) .

 

That said, just in case you're not familiar with BOM tools that are available these days and/or you'd ever like/need to use them again:  Things have improved vastly since days long past as far as creating and managing BOMs are concerned. Both DigiKey and Octopart have tools you can use to create BOMs, find available parts, at the best pricing. There are likely a number of variations on those as well, but Octopart and Digikey (primarily Octopart) are what I've been using:

 

 

Octopart BOM Tool (accounts are free)

 

Also see the following links for more info about (e.g.) Octopart's BOM tool (there's plenty of explanatory info):

 

Youtube search returns

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=octopart+bom+tool

 

Google search returns

https://www.google.com/search?q=octopart+bom+tool

 

Let me know if you'd like to know more.

 

Edited February 25, 2023 by iamjanco

[Kaz]

3 hours ago, iamjanco said:

 

That said, just in case you're not familiar with BOM tools that are available these days and/or you'd ever like/need to use them again:  Things have improved vastly since days long past as far as creating and managing BOMs are concerned. Both DigiKey and Octopart have tools you can use to create BOMs, find available parts, at the best pricing. There are likely a number of variations on those as well, but Octopart and Digikey (primarily Octopart) are what I've been using:

Thanks!  I haven't used BOM tools before.  That would have made things much easier!  The manufacturing websites were a nightmare to navigate for a large list of parts.  I hadn't thought of using a tool, and probably wouldn't think of it until I sat down and started writing my own script, that's about when I would think  "gee, I wonder if anyone else has done this before."