I recently reached a point where my electronics components inventory is becoming too huge to manually manage. My latest PCB project produced a BOM of about 50 parts, many of them, I already own. But which ones tho? Currently all of my SMD parts can fill a shoebox, searching through all of them would be a daunting task and could lead to parts missing from an order. To mitigate all of this I set up a PartDB instance in my laptop using Podman. Read more...