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Local
Local places to pick up electronic components, (roughly) sorted by distance from NSL:
- TRW Swap Meet - El Segundo - Last Saturday of the month.
- 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.
Online
- Security Snobs - For all your high security lock needs.
- Adafruit Industries - NSL gets a group discount. Group Buy
- 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.
- 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
Alternative or OEM places to buy things that sparkfun add a huge tax too then ship really slowly
Tactile switches, smd momentary Cylon II, 5 way joystick <BR>
- Hengtai Electronics - ( note the g )
PCB Houses
- 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.silvercircuits.com/ Haven't used, but been really responsive and helpful
- http://www.olimex.com Olimex are a great company
- http://http://www.pcbonline.org/index.php BatchPCB gets their boards from here
- 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.
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