[HH] You-Do-It Electronics carries Arduinos, Micro Center

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

> markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>>> A thread seen on the Artisan's Asylum Discussion List...if you work
>>> your
>>> way through the reverse-chronological mess of top-posting, you'll see
>>> that now carries a selection of Arduinos, and some stuff from Sparkfun
>>> and adafruit.
>>
>> I LOVE YDI, but they are a bit pricey.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Sometimes their stuff is priced so much higher than other vendors that
> when I do bother to use one of their coupons, which often provide a
> significant discount, it only brings the price down to matching mail
> order sources.
>
> But they also have some bargains mixed in. I bought some long flexible
> drill bits used for running wires in walls and they were priced quite
> reasonably.
>
>
>> For my money, I'd go to Microcenter in Cambridge. They have a pretty
>> workable selection.
>
> I haven't asked an employee yet, but a few times when I've been there
> since they started advertising that they carried Arduinos I've wandered
> around trying to find them and haven't. I expected to see them in the
> last isle on the left at the back of the store where they have small
> tools for electronics work.
>
> Where are they hiding them?

Way over where the video games and books are. I missed it a couple times
myself.
>
> Over the years I've noticed Micro Center has carried a varying selection
> of electronics components. At one time they carried some general purpose
> logic ICs and discretes, but still a smaller selection than you'd find
> at a Radio Shack in the 90's.

Radio Shack is coming back to its roots. Have you looked lately?

>
>  -Tom
>
>
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