[ML-General] No More Radio Shack

[Nolan Cash]

K West ~

unfortunately the local places i have been too only have specific pieces of
electronics, and many of them have a knowledge of open source that ends at
them knowing that phrase exist. Gigaparts has some arduinos and raspberry
pis, with basic minimal plug ins. No chips, no components, not much of
anything. The summary of all the places I have been is that they are plug
and play, basically look up a number and order the part. As for custom, or
hacking, not so much. However, im not bashing them, they have said that
with ebay prices from China that is less than their whole sale prices, they
can't compete.

But if anyone has seen one that I have missed please let me know.
On Feb 7, 2015 3:47 PM, "K West" <kit.west at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about small/local hobby shops? would they not carry some components?
> Like places that carry stuff for R/C cars and planes. They carry servos and
> radios already. They probably have some components, and I'm fairly sure
> they would carry ~Arduino stuff. Or try electrical stores.  Down here in
> Birmingham there's Oak Mountain Hobby, and downtown there are several
> electrical supply stores that I've been able to pick up parts from. If a
> group, such as ML, or a local group of groups, were to approach a local
> hobby store about carrying electronics supplies, I'm sure they would be
> responsive and appreciate having new customers.
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Erik Arendall <earendall at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I spoke to the woman that runs the Cullman store that is closing and she
>> said most of the mall stores are closing. She did say the Madison mall
>> store is closing and should be doing a 25% off storewide. I'd push to get
>> the discount from that store.
>>
>> I believe the stand alone store in Madison in front of Walmart is
>> staying.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Phillip Showers <
>> phillip.showers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ehhh according to the Forbes article, its a Chapter 11 Restructuring,
>>> with a selloff of about half their stores (2400 of 5500) to a private
>>> equity firm that will reopen about half of those as Sprint stores. So
>>> nothing is really changing. RS is still gonna be a barely passable
>>> component shop, though some stores might close for good. Amazon, Ebay, and
>>> Mouser/Digikey are all viable replacements for RS, though it does suck that
>>> there might not be somewhere local that one can run when they need some
>>> resistors or transistors NOW and are willing to ignore the markup. RS has
>>> come in handy for me in the past that way, but they've also let me down in
>>> the same way too. In the end, we'll see what changes, they opened up a
>>> brand new store in madison that had a slightly better selection and I'd be
>>> surprised if it went away a year after they opened it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here in Florida near Melbourne Makerspace there is a locally owned
>>>> business called Jaycon Systems.  They are the ones we normally go to for
>>>> parts and things.  Perhaps there's a similar place near there or someone
>>>> could start a similar business there in Huntsville?
>>>> http://melbournemakerspace.org/
>>>>
>>>> http://www.jayconsystems.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Jacob Chancery <
>>>> jacob.chancery at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> They declared bankruptcy yesterday.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, is there any other place I can go to buy electrical components?  I
>>>>> mean, for a planned project I would just buy online.  But for an emergency
>>>>> repair, it sure was nice to have a local store.
>>>>>
>>>>> I once spent hours disassembling my mini-van power sliding door to
>>>>> figure out that the problem was a corroded limit switch
>>>>> <http://www.radioshack.com/spdt-switch-with-3-4-roller-lever/2750017.html#.VNTe9J29l8F>.
>>>>> Luckily I could pick up a new switch from Radio Shack and fix it, instead
>>>>> of having to reassemble it broken and wait for an order to arrive.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Jacob
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