> ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: >>> A thread seen on the Artisan's Asylum Discussion List...if you work >>> your >>> way through the reverse-chronological mess of top-posting, you'll see >>> that now carries a selection of Arduinos, and some stuff from Sparkfun >>> and adafruit. >> >> I LOVE YDI, but they are a bit pricey. > > Agreed. > > Sometimes their stuff is priced so much higher than other vendors that > when I do bother to use one of their coupons, which often provide a > significant discount, it only brings the price down to matching mail > order sources. > > But they also have some bargains mixed in. I bought some long flexible > drill bits used for running wires in walls and they were priced quite > reasonably. > > >> For my money, I'd go to Microcenter in Cambridge. They have a pretty >> workable selection. > > I haven't asked an employee yet, but a few times when I've been there > since they started advertising that they carried Arduinos I've wandered > around trying to find them and haven't. I expected to see them in the > last isle on the left at the back of the store where they have small > tools for electronics work. > > Where are they hiding them?
Way over where the video games and books are. I missed it a couple times myself. > > Over the years I've noticed Micro Center has carried a varying selection > of electronics components. At one time they carried some general purpose > logic ICs and discretes, but still a smaller selection than you'd find > at a Radio Shack in the 90's. Radio Shack is coming back to its roots. Have you looked lately? > > -Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > Hardwarehacking@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking > _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list Hardwarehacking@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
