PIC chips from China, shipped in Styofoam

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  1. - 17th March 2013, 20:26 #1
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    Default Re: PIC chips from China, shipped in Styofoam

    Probably just pins in black epoxy. lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Demon View Post
    Probably just pins in black epoxy. lol
    Nice ! I wouldn't be worried about the styrofoam at all . This reminds me of an article I read a while back in sparkfun.com. They bought a bunch of Atmega microcontrollers that ended up being fake. Here is their story

    http://www.sparkfun.com/news/350
    "No one is completely worthless. They can always serve as a bad example."

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