[TriLUG] OT: Hobby Parts for Electronics

[Brian A. Henning]

Yes, pardon me for also responding on-list, but as a fellow electronics
enthousiast, I too am interested in any component wholesale leads, now that
Capital Electronics (formerly downtown on Glenwood) has closed up shop.
There may well be others on the list who would benefit from this OT pearl of
wisdom (perl of wisdom?  heh)...  So I am especially interested if anyone
knows of good local dealers.

-1 Radio Shack.  While they had it, they wanted $15 for an LM3914/3916
(dot/bar display driver IC), which you can get from DigiKey for about $3.
Just one extreme example of the price gouging you can expect to encounter at
Radio Shack.

Cheers,
~Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Jim Ray
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:40 PM
> To: 'Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list'
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] OT: Hobby Parts for Electronics
>
>
> Newark may have a min yet usually stocks everything under the sun.  Radio
> Shaft blows grits.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Brian Weaver
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:20 PM
> > To: TriLUG
> > Subject: [TriLUG] OT: Hobby Parts for Electronics
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > This is off topic, mainly because the project in mind isn't for Linux
> > this time. I'm wanting to hobby work with electronics, I did after all
> > spend 6 years at NC State, most of it either in a computer lab or
> > working on electrical circuits. The problem is I'm looking for a good
> > place to find components. I know most basic stuff can be found at Radio
> > Shack, but does anyone know of any other local places or good online
> > stores? I'm trying to compile a list of good vendors so that I can find
> > what I need when I do find time to work on a hardware project.
> >
> > Since this is off topic, please reply off list to weave at spellweaver
> > dot org. If you are interested in any links that I get from others just
> > send me a note and I'll forward along whatever I find out.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Weave
>
>
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