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If you're in the Bay Area, halted.com has a store in Santa Clara that totally blew my mind. Dozens of aisles of electronics components, including racks of reels of surface-mount stuff. They also have stuff like used oscilloscopes, industrial robotics controllers, etc.


If you're in the Bay Area, you never needed Radio Shack to begin with. Their market is (was) the rest of us, here in flyover territory.


Yeah, not everyone has access to Fry's or Weird Stuff, sadly.


And even Frys has been getting worse and worse. Fortunately, Jameco is still local, even if it is a bit of a drive.


In Massachusetts there is: http://www.youdoitelectronics.com/


Microcenter in Cambridge has expanded their space for DIY recently, and is decent now for hobby-level stuff. They have a very large selection of various kits, RPi and Arduino shields, sensors, and some tools.

They don't have very much single-component selection -- although, to be honest, YDI Electronics selection is kind of limited too (understandably because, well, internet).


Try HSC Electronic Supply.. down in San Jose That'll really blow your mind.

Edit: I just clicked the link and realized that is the same place lol, yeah it is awesome.


I live in the UK but my company's head office is in San Jose and I should be visiting in the near future so I'll have to pop in!


I have no need for any of that yet I could walk around a store like that for hours and hours.




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