We’ve recently grown annoyed with the slightly bow legged stance DIP ICs ship with (it makes inserting them into sockets ever so frustrating). Rather than continue to spend longer than we liked on less than perfect results we decided to make ourselves a little jig to help out.

Simply slide the IC along the channel and the two bearings ensure the ICs pins are bent straight and ready for insertion (we have to thank EMSL for letting us know that these existed ( here ) )

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Design Files (mechanical reference) (pdf)
Laser Files (cdr)

Additional Files and Formats :: 
(http://oomlout.com/ICSQ/)

We go through a lot of ribbons of resistors at oomlout. While we have gotten quite speedy slicing them with scissors we knew there had to be a better way. As a result, we decided to design a machine to help us out.

The current prototype takes an Arduino, a stepper motor, two RC servos, two exacto blades and a bundle of laser sliced 3mm MDF. It produces resistors strips of any length.

A lovely video of it in action:



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We have plans to fix a few things up before cleaning up the files and documenting it properly but if you’d like to get a jump start design files can be downloaded (http://www.oomlout.com/RECO/) (CC BY-SA).