MSE Side Greebles

[Lumpy]

Trick for the side panes has been finding chips (if you want to DIY) that are the right sizes (14pin/16pin DIPs)…. Note that lots of Chinese chips are really, really cheap, trick is just finding parts with the right #of pins.

Quick search:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/74HC04-7...61279.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100PCS-U...64523.html

These aren't exactly the old shape (not that anyone would know)

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100PCS-I...36100.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100pcs-I...50574.html

(Not sure if these are right either, but IIRC someone said they had round pins?)

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/in-stock...52840.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/in-stock...71739.html

Ordered sockets and caps tonight. Dirt cheap from E-Bay. Got enough for 4 MSE droids. Hoping to have 1 driving in time for Makerfaire/Comic Expo. Others will be static until I can get them rolling.

I think I'll laser the chips though. If it fails, Plan B will be to order some in.