Local places to pick up electronic components, (roughly) sorted by distance from NSL:

• ITC- Los Angeles
• Frys - Burbank
• DuVac - Pasadena
• C&H Surplus - Duarte
• All Electronics - Van Nuys
• Norton Sales - N. Hollywood
• Electronic City - North Hollywood / Burbank
• Industrial Metal Supply - Sun Valley / Irvine
• APEX - Sun Valley
• TRW Swap Meet - El Segundo - Last Saturday of the month.
• Harbor Freight Tools - Simi Valley, Pasadena
• Frys - Manhattan Beach
• Frys - City of Industry
• Ford Electronics - Buena Park - Have both new and surplus stuff. Good resource for hard to find stuff.
• Orvac - Fullerton - Large selection of network/cabling supplies in addition to electronic components.

• Multi-vendor parts search
• Mouser - Group Buy
• Texas Instruments (free samples of many products)
• Security Snobs - For all your high security lock needs.
• Arduino
• BeagleBoard
• Gumstix
• Adafruit Industries - NSL gets a group discount. Group Buy
• SparkFun Electronics - Group Buy
• NKC Electronics
• Electronics Goldmine - Good deals on obscure and surplus stuff.
• Future Electronics - Loads of chips and component “value packs.” Slow, but rock-bottom prices.
• Nightfire Electronics - Nice selection of SMT parts kits at reasonable prices.
• Modern Device
• Liquidware
• DigiKey - DigiKey offers free shipping when a Check acompanies your order Group Buy
• epboard - surface mount prototype adapters and more
• Unicorn Electronics - Electronic grab bags and cheap bits
• Leading Leds US distributor of LEDs from Chinese Ledz.com - Fast service when I tried them

Tactile switches, smd momentary Cylon II, 5 way joystick <BR>

• Hengtai Electronics - ( note the g )

• http://xenon-tech.com Haven't used
• http://www.ezpcb.com/ Good, cheap
• http://www.4pcb.com Great
• http://www.batchpcb.com eh, zero customer service, mistakes are common
• http://www.pcbcart.com OK
• http://www.silvercircuits.com/ Haven't used, but been really responsive and helpful
• http://www.olimex.com Olimex are a great company
• http://www.apcircuits.com
• http://ecommerce.pcbfabexpress.com/index.jsp
• http://http://www.pcbonline.org/index.php BatchPCB gets their boards from here
• http://www.e-teknet.com/
• http://www.7pcb.ca/ low cost pcb assembly
• http://www.aapcb.com/ Expensive
• http://www.futurlec.com/index.shtml Ask arclight
• http://dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/pcb_order PCB batch orders. No minimum, setup or postage fees.
• http://iteadstudio.com/store/index.php Another PCB batcher. About 10 bucks for 10 5cm x 5cm boards. 3 week turnaround.