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by nine_k 1259 days ago
They can be made economical if you have a lot of salvaged parts for cheap / free.

(As a boy, I could not have built much of the stuff I've built from 74xx ICs if I had to buy all of them new; instead, I had a bunch of PCBs from a decommissioned computer.)

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The motor for the little trolley in the video is a salvaged wiper motor.