They no longer have a retail operation -- just a will-call desk. :( Make Magazine sells a beginning electronics kits that has a whole bunch of parts.
-p On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Gregory Heller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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] >> >> > > > > > -- > ---- > Gregory Heller > http://www.GregoryHeller.com > http://delicious.com/GregoryHeller > http://twitter.com/gregoryheller > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
