anybody ever go to radar electronics? http://www.radarinc.com/cgi-bin/wspl.sh/homepage.p
Tanjent Tanjent wrote: > I just started doing electronics stuffs a few months ago - Frys will > get you the basics (breadboard, resistors, LEDs, etc.) but for ICs > it's pretty hit-or-miss - half the stuff on the racks is sold out and > most of it isn't terribly useful. Most of the Radio Shacks are even > less useful, as the ones I've managed to find are tiny mall boutiques > that sell mostly cameras and computer parts, with perhaps one lonely > rack of electronic components. > > I'd recommend ordering an Arduino and picking up breadboard / > resistors ( 100-ish ohms and 300-ish ohms ) / LEDs from Frys and start > working through the tutorials, once you're done with that you should > have enough of an idea of what you need to order more specific parts > from Digikey or Mouser. > > If you're willing to do some tedious sorting, it can be quite > cost-effective to purchase bags of random resistors / capacitors / > etc. and sort them yourself - the magic term for googling these grab > bags seems to be "<X> assortment". > > Also, Electronics Goldmine.com (http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com) > has lots of bags of cheap random crap, some useful some not. > > > -tanjent > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Justin Martenstein > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > I'm thinking about starting a weekend project playing around with some > circuits, but I have NO parts. Any recommendations on a good place to > go to get the basics: a breadboard, some wire, components, etc? Radio > Shacks? Frye's? > > -- > Justin Martenstein > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > > -- ---- Gregory Heller http://www.GregoryHeller.com http://delicious.com/GregoryHeller http://twitter.com/gregoryheller --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
