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I'd probably make a general tinkerer/Maker/technical creative type sub to cover a lot of different disciplines and interests. Are there any subs like this already outside of the DIY sub? This never took off on Voat but Poal seems more like a community that can make it work so I'd like to give it a go here.

I'd probably make a general tinkerer/Maker/technical creative type sub to cover a lot of different disciplines and interests. Are there any subs like this already outside of the DIY sub? This never took off on Voat but Poal seems more like a community that can make it work so I'd like to give it a go here.

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They sure did a lot for me and a couple of friends that were into electronics. Between their data sheets and the Forrest Mims III engineering notebooks, I learned so much about designing and building circuits. Also the Don Lancaster CMOS Cookbook and Philips ECG parts catalogs helped me move into the digital world. Good times.

In the 80s I used to get the Dick Smith Electronics catalog (US store for the Australian electronics retail firm). Those catalogs had a section in the middle about 20 pages or so filled with component pin outs, useful formulas, tables and charts for resistance, capacitance, inductance and other common reference data. They also had some simple schematics for oscillators, op amp circuits and digital/TTL. The catalogs provided me with so much useful information that they eventually fell apart. I wish I had one now that DSE is a thing of the past as well. So much good stuff disappeared in the golden age of modern hobby electronics.