<p dir="ltr">K West ~</p>
<p dir="ltr">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. </p>
<p dir="ltr">But if anyone has seen one that I have missed please let me know. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 7, 2015 3:47 PM, "K West" <<a href="mailto:kit.west@gmail.com">kit.west@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Erik Arendall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earendall@gmail.com" target="_blank">earendall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>I believe the stand alone store in Madison in front of Walmart is staying. </div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Phillip Showers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phillip.showers@gmail.com" target="_blank">phillip.showers@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Joshua Pritt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramgarden@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramgarden@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">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?<div><a href="http://melbournemakerspace.org/" target="_blank">http://melbournemakerspace.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.jayconsystems.com/" target="_blank">http://www.jayconsystems.com/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Jacob Chancery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacob.chancery@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacob.chancery@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>They declared bankruptcy yesterday.</div><div><br></div>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.<div><br></div><div>I once spent hours disassembling my mini-van power sliding door to figure out that the problem was a corroded <a href="http://www.radioshack.com/spdt-switch-with-3-4-roller-lever/2750017.html#.VNTe9J29l8F" target="_blank">limit switch</a>. 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.<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Jacob</div></font></span></div>
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