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A Dot a Day Keeps the Clutter Away — Scott Lawson

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The simplest organization system I've tried is a sheet of colored dot stickers. It's also the best.

Walk into my lab and the first thing you'll notice is the dots. The walls are lined with clear boxes, each one labeled, dated, and covered in dot stickers. Some boxes are buried in dots of every color. Others have a few. Others are bare. You don't know what they mean yet, but you can see the pattern. That's the system. It costs three dollars, has no software, and I've been using it for four years. The Parts Problem I've been collecting electronic components since university in 2011. Resistors, capacitors, microcontrollers, motors, drivers, DC-DC converters, displays, amplifiers, servos, LEDs,

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