Good IC / Electronic Component Inventory Software? 70
Smerky writes "As I've been getting more and more into hobby electronics I have been finding it difficult to keep track of all the different ICs and other electronics that I have (resistors, capacitors, etc.). What are Slashdotters' recommendations for some inventory software? Certain qualifications that I'd be looking for personally are that it has to run on Linux/OSX well or be web-based (to run well on an Apache2 server)."
Database (Score:3, Interesting)
This is a simple database problem.
You could throw something together, or just make a nice organized list in a spreadsheet. With appropriate filters it can be quite useable.
For only a few hundred/thousand items spreadsheets make nice databases.
The big problem is keeping it up to date, that's where you'll likely run into trouble.
DIY? (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't mean this in an arrogant fashion or anything, but do you have any programming experience? Inventory Systems are really the easiest kinds of systems to set up, since you generally only have to track what goes in, what goes out, and sometimes what works together.
You can grab a Java for dummies book, maybe SQuirreL, and Eclipse, and have some fun developing an inventory system yourself, the only limits being how much you want to put into it. I mean you didn't mention any special features so its hard to recommend anything I might have heard of.
But yeah, my recommendation, since its all about hobbies, perhaps you could tackle it yourself.