Lots of info, not great ordering.
The budget is mushy. We collected $50 per student as a lab fee. The (my) idea was to use this to buy tools/things students would keep. There is other money for equipment, and consumables.
Each student so far:
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On order:
830-point Breadboard (Pololu) $4.50x3 $13.50
19 Bin Portable Parts Storage Case (HarborFreight) $8.00
looking at:
WIRE,22AWG,SOLID,GREEN,100 (Jameco) $7.00
Total $28.50
I could have gone with 2 breadboards but at this price I would rather have 3. Maybe hand out 2 to start with.
I am going to order 9 100ft spools of wire. 2 Black, 2 Red, and 5 other colors, maybe white, yellow, green, blue, and brown. Students can add wire to their kits as needed.
I could shift the the wire out of the student fee's into my supplies to pay for more or better tools.
1/4 watt 1% resistors are on their way from China via Ebay. I plan to supplment the common values by ordering 100's of the common values 1K, 10K , 330R. I have red, green, yellow: 100ea 3mm LEDs on order from MPJA. Still need to order 100 .1uf bypass caps, 20Mhz resonators. Also plan to get each student 8 red and 8 green LEDs with built in resistors to make breadboarding easier. 1 bi-color each to play with.
I like the case. The plan is that it will hold enough for the student to take his breadboard home and wire a project. The bins pull out. I will be cutting wood blocks to hold junebug and the breadboards that replace existing bins. The Junebug
is an exact match for 1 large and 1 small bin. Students will retain removed bins so they can rearrange as desired.
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The only tools I want to buy at this point are what they need to do solderless breadboard work. A stripper, a cutter, small philips and straight screwdriver to connect wires to screw blocks. None of the sets I have seen so far have this combo. Most often contain nut drivers etc.
I have 3 temperature controlled soldering stations on order from MPJA. Only the 2 returning students will be soldering the 1st semister.
I have PO's in for the 2 color matrix displays that were used in another thread. At under $1.50 each student will get two. Next term I plan to get them each a character and graphic LCD, also an IR sensor.
For the expensive sensors like gyro's and accel I may order 2 or 3 each once the dust settles and have them stay with the school.
I see you only mention wire cutters/strippers. Would you be planning to by other tools as well. What's the budget? I was thinking something like these tool kits. $18.99
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I am sure there are others to choose from, but to give you an idea.