I did this years ago, pre-Covid, with a course on Python taught by a prof at Vanderbilt University, via Coursera. In fact I talked my wife into taking the course, too.

When the supply chain fails as happened with Covid, it could even become a national security issue when companies are unable rather than unwilling to make timely repairs…and where new

suffered a fan failure whilst housed in a rack, this resulted in a seriously damaged power supply from over heating, From memory, which now may not be as good as it was thanks to a Covid

I'm in CA (as Jim F), getting it from TX requires affordable FedEx 2nd day, which is also... relatively reliable (FedEx used to be the golden standard of logistics in the US, until Covid

During the Covid shutdown I resurrected four HP410B of varying vintages.

Covid inflation is a real thing, but the ebay test equipment inflation in asking prices is 10x (or maybe even 100x) what covid inflation is.

A couple general comments though, which kind of offset each other: Covid inflation is a real thing. Prices on everything is up.

Well, COVID has died down, the border is now open, the weather is nice, and we have TONS of accumulated goodies to put out for an in-person Stuff Day here at Sphere (West Kelowna, BC

(Still got that assembly... and looking forward to trying to fix it when the tortures of covid, flu, and taxes are not sufficiently painful enough.)

I use it all the time, just behind my scope and benchtop multimeter (I have a few spare kits of parts for the Option 001 in the video below if anyone is interested, pending covid shipping

I would ask but they unfortunately wend out of business during Covid - I have a few now that are either bent or broken but they are low on the priority list as I'm still recovering

Piles of these were being sold at the last local eFlea prior to the COVID lockdown, and I recall the seller struggling to move them at $50 a pop.

Hi it appears that I have a faulty 8350 frame that is taking out the plugins I should have not started working on these items whilst ill with covid as it seems I have now blown up 2

In pre-Covid times, I regularly saw these at e-Fleas for a song. Or maybe it was the same unit, sitting unsold... I never laid hands on an ST-1000.

If NSW sorts out the COVID problem, I could be tempted to come over for a holiday and help unpack the container and catalogue. :^)

They sell boxes in many sizes and they are at least reasonable (at least when I bought a couple packs pre-Covid). The 1.5 cu ft boxes work pretty well for tech manuals.

Hi Chris Welcome to the group but your problem is not new and one that most on this group suffer from Covid shut down for the past 2 years has meant a lack of rallies / to reduce our

Hi all just returning to doing a bit of electronics as I have been out of it long before covid due to health reasoned but hopefully 90 % sorted now as Part of a hands on Lab area for

You can see it all here: https://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/stuffday.html The big problem looming for us now is the inevitable Covid spike when un-vaccinated kids return to school, nobody

Unfortunately Covid but a big damper on my planned group buy of the kit, but it is still in the pipeline once things start happening again.