Electronic Parts Outlet — Stuff

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:56:00 -0500

Houston Electronics Parts store — need to visit if I can get down there.

Electronic Parts Outlet (Zamacha LLC) in Houston is a surplus electronic components dealer, and the “Stuff” page is a photo tour of the inventory — bins and walls of connectors, modules, and out-of-the-ordinary parts you don’t see at the usual distributors. Famously deep stock of legacy components; if a part isn’t on the site, call and ask. A physical pilgrimage candidate.

Please, Don't Code

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:37:00 -0500

LLM-based embedded board programming. Haven’t tried it yet, but I should.

PleaseDontCode (PCGen) is an end-to-end hardware platform for people who don’t write embedded code: pick one of 35+ boards (ESP32 variants, Arduino Uno/Nano/Mega, RP2040, ESP8266, M5Stack, Pi Zero 2W…), describe in chat what the device should do, and the AI draws the wiring schematic and generates firmware kept in sync with it — with hardware-verified pin assignments (it knows GPIO6 on an ESP32 is unusable, unlike a plain chatbot). Flash via USB straight from the browser, then POTA (“Programming Over The Air”) handles WiFi firmware updates and a live monitoring dashboard with widgets. Free for one device.

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Electronic Parts Outlet — Stuff

Please, Don't Code