Here you can find incomplete lists of the electronic parts stocked by the instructional labs as well as some presentations on the construction and applications of different common components.
Lab Inventory
In addition to placing orders for some design classes, the instructional labs keeps a stock of discrete components and electronics that are available for academic, research, or personal use. Each inventory list may not be entirely complete or up to date, so you can email or visit in-person if the component you’re looking for is not listed. The labs also stock raw materials including wood, acrylic, metal, PVC, and plexiglass.
Download Discrete Component List
Component Presentations
Below, you can find some presentations that cover the basics for the most common components and devices. What type of motor should you use? And when should you use it? What’s the difference between one transistor and another? These questions sorts of questions can be answered at an introductory level in the presentations created by our undergraduate lab assistants.
RCL Components
- Air Core Inductors
- Ceramic Capacitors (coming soon)
- Electrolytic Capacitors (coming soon)
- Ferrite Core Inductors
- Potentiometers (coming soon)
- Tantalum Capacitors (coming soon)
Semiconductors
- Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs)
- Junction Field Effect Transistors (JFETS)
- LEDs
- Infrared LEDs
- Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) (coming soon)
- Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistors (MOSFETs) (coming soon)
- Operational Amplifiers (coming soon)
- Photodiodes
- Schottky Diodes
- Zener Dio
Motors
- Brushed DC Motors
- Brushless DC Motors
- Linear Actuators (coming soon)
- Servo Motors
- Solenoid (coming soon)
- Stepper Motors (coming soon)
- AC Motors (coming soon)
Motor Drivers
- Electronic Speed Controllers
- H-Bridge Motor Drivers (coming soon)
- Stepper Motor Drivers
Sensors
- Accelerometers (coming soon)
- Capacitive Touch Sensors
- Encoders (coming soon)
- Flex/Force Sensors
- Gyroscopes (coming soon)
- Hall Effect Sensors
- Infrared Sensors (coming soon)
- Internal Measurement Units (coming soon)
- Light Sensors (coming soon)
- Temperature Sensors
- Ultrasonic Sensors (coming soon)
Other Components
- Fuses
- Fast Blow Fuses (coming soon)
- Slow Blow Fuses
- Linear Voltage Regulators
- Opto-Isolators (coming soon)
- Relays
- Switches
- Transformers