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RadioShack - The Great Create
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Check out what other creators have submitted, get inspired by project ideas from our partners or build your skills with our how-to videos. Then vote for the ones you “Like” or submit your own. There are only two rules: it has to feature RadioShack parts and it has to be something you'd call a Great Creation.
Sprite is the world's smallest spacecraft. It's built with totally off the shelf parts and designed to comunicate with ground stations from low Earth orbit. Three Sprites are currently mounted to the outside of the International Space Station. Eventually we hope to build ChipSats the size of a fingernail that can perform many of the functions of larger spacecraft.
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Why do all of the projects lack a parts list and schematics
Yes, why do they???
The fact that we have all said this, and here hasn't been any changes or even a response from an employee I declare "the great create" a gimmic that is only there for publicity and they aren't serious about it. Good day radio shack I'll take my business elsewhere
Or even a kit or link to a kit etc
"Sprite is the world's smallest spacecraft. It's built with totally off the shelf parts and ....." seems to be RATHER misleading. I don't think you can get ANY of the parts for this project at Radio Shack.
To add to Afa's comment, I want to know how the circuit board was created. I would LOVE to be able to walk in to Radio Shack and get the necessary equipment to etch down to the level needed for the microcontroller.
PLEASE provide some info. I know that there was a similar version of this site a couple of years ago and it had the same issue: Submit projects....but unfortunately Radio Shack doesn't have NEARLY the components on the shelf that it needs to SUPPORT what is shown on the site.
I couldn't agree more. RS once upon a time had an amazing array of electronic parts - TTL, CMOS, specialty chips, RF componentry, a zillion transistors and resistors and capacitors of any possible value needed. I don't think there's enough parts in a RS store to build ANY of the so-called projects on this site - not even close. And as pointed out, precision PCBs? Right! Or how about the fancy box the "guitar distortion" project is housed in? Hardly a Radio Shack part.
This is one of the most misleading campaigns I've ever seen. I found out about it from Wired Magazine where they have a full page ad showing the Sprite - with total implication it was built with RS parts - when in fact I don't think ANY of the needed parts are at RS.
Oh, and imagine the laughs you'd have taking this web page into a store and asking one of the clerks to gather the parts!!! That would be hilarious to hear them respond to.
I used to work for RadioShack back in 2006-2007. The entire training past the initial part about sales and commission was about cell phone sales. at&t rep would always stop by to fill us in on the new phones which we barely even had and none of the display models were real. I had to subject myself to quarterly meetings at our local hq and get brainwashed by Sprint and at&t reps explaining how to convert a sale of a battery into a cell phone sale. Almost 90% of my training was about cell phones and how to attach accessories. Everything in RadioShack is overpriced and anyone with a brain can see that on their own. The only reason they are still afloat is their lengthy cell phone upgrades they make to illegal immigrants with stolen SSN's. I have witnessed this countless times. In conclusion, RadioShack is not the place to go. If you have a store called Fry's Electronics in your state, GO TO IT. They have 3+ 50 foot aisles with any component you may need.
Thet do have CMOS as CMOS is just your common 2032 battery.
Um... no, not even close. CMOS is referring to a type of integrated circuit, not the CR2032 battery that may happen to be used in your computer as a backup for the BIOS and RTC.
Might as well change the name to "Cellphone Shack". The motto..You have questions...we have batteries! Radio Shack was really cool back in the 70's.The stores are very depressing, the offerings slim to none and the prices are rediculous unless it's a red tagged item.Sad to say, RadioShack will go the same way as "HeathKit". SO very sad.....
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