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Is the electronics hobby dying?
Is it just me or does it seem like the electronic hobby is dying. I
live in a fairly large city and it is very difficult to find electronic components now. All the electronic suppliers are gone except for radio shack and they suck. Am I wrong about this? |
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Is the electronics hobby dying?
A few are around in the city, but most have moved online. Helps with
the overhead. Larry On 3 Dec 2005 17:22:08 -0800, wrote: Is it just me or does it seem like the electronic hobby is dying. I live in a fairly large city and it is very difficult to find electronic components now. All the electronic suppliers are gone except for radio shack and they suck. Am I wrong about this? |
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Is the electronics hobby dying?
I live conveniently next to the university electronics supply.
You could try your local university, they might have their own shop for people who need to build bizarre lab equipment. Hmm! I never thought about that. I liver near a University also. I think I'll give em a try. Thanks. |
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Is the electronics hobby dying?
"Bjarni Juliusson" wrote in message ... wrote: Is it just me or does it seem like the electronic hobby is dying. I live in a fairly large city and it is very difficult to find electronic components now. All the electronic suppliers are gone except for radio shack and they suck. Am I wrong about this? Same thing here, but I have several friends at the university with a healthy interest in electronics. You could try Farnell, they exist online. I live conveniently next to the university electronics supply. You could try your local university, they might have their own shop for people who need to build bizarre lab equipment. Bjarni Plenty of stuff online here in "Oz", with the difference in currency you should be able to ship it in and cover the mail costs. Have a look at http://www1.jaycar.com.au/ for example. -- Regards ......... Rheilly Phoull |
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Is the electronics hobby dying?
wrote in message oups.com... Is it just me or does it seem like the electronic hobby is dying. I live in a fairly large city and it is very difficult to find electronic components now. All the electronic suppliers are gone except for radio shack and they suck. Am I wrong about this? Have you not heard of online shopping? There are plenty of electronic parts suppliers there and that is where the majority of parts are sold. Gareth. |
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Is the electronics hobby dying?
I think the main problem is the increase in technological level -
electronics you can buy now for £10 is far more complicated than a hobbyist could build easily for the same price. Maybe a decade ago the hobbyist could use their knowledge to make something cheaply or for a fun project. Our definitions of fun and cheap have altered. J |
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Is the electronics hobby dying?
I don't think it is dying, you just have to go with the technology. Today
you can build electronics at home that haven't been possible for a hobbyist some years ago. You just have to learn some new things like microprocessor programming, SMD soldering, high-resolution PCB manufacturing.... Challenge is fun! |
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Is the electronics hobby dying?
I think it is. Decades ago when I was young there were several several
electronics supply stores, some like small grocery stores with isles and isles of parts. Now the only brick&mortar place is Radio Shack where there is just part of one wall. I have been getting back into dabbling with some old TTL SN74xxx series chips I had. I have an od mix. Anyway trying to tinker together some projects but usually find myself short by one component that is no longer easy to obtain. And it is not worth the $25 (or more) minimum ordering, S&H, etc, to buy a $0.99 part. (Like a couple SN7414 that I lack in my box of IC chips.) Yes, there is some exciting new things, but we are loosing alot of the inbetween stuff. But that inbetween stuff is still usable, it still works, and is still sometimes the best solution for small specialized projects like what I am doing. Henry wrote in message oups.com... Is it just me or does it seem like the electronic hobby is dying. I live in a fairly large city and it is very difficult to find electronic components now. All the electronic suppliers are gone except for radio shack and they suck. Am I wrong about this? |
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Is the electronics hobby dying?
I believe it is as well. I was surprised several years ago when I moved to
Northern Virginia and only found one electronics store. I moved back to Binghamton, NY and feel very lucky. We have two electronic stores here and both are doing well. Unicorn Electronics http://www.unicornelex.com/ Brigar Electronics https://www.brigarelectronics.com/ I have been out of the electronic hobby mode for a while, but am starting to get back into it again. Thankfully for the internet it is easier to get some odd parts that you want. Now all I need to do is to figure out how to use some SMD components. If anyone has any advice on this in particular I just bought an LCD Screen from Electronics Goldmine and the connector for the LCD is a SMD connector. URL for the LCD Screen: http://www.goldmine-elec-products.co...em=2&mite m=6 URL for the connector: http://www.goldmine-elec-products.co...em=1&mite m=1 Three of my favorite places to buy electronic components from besides the two local shops a All Electronics http://www.allelectronics.com/ Electronic Goldmine http://www.goldmine-elec.com/ Jameco Electronics http://www.jameco.com/. I just wish there were more internet sites for circuits, schematics, etc. Rich "Henry" wrote in message ... I think it is. Decades ago when I was young there were several several electronics supply stores, some like small grocery stores with isles and isles of parts. Now the only brick&mortar place is Radio Shack where there is just part of one wall. I have been getting back into dabbling with some old TTL SN74xxx series chips I had. I have an od mix. Anyway trying to tinker together some projects but usually find myself short by one component that is no longer easy to obtain. And it is not worth the $25 (or more) minimum ordering, S&H, etc, to buy a $0.99 part. (Like a couple SN7414 that I lack in my box of IC chips.) Yes, there is some exciting new things, but we are loosing alot of the inbetween stuff. But that inbetween stuff is still usable, it still works, and is still sometimes the best solution for small specialized projects like what I am doing. Henry wrote in message oups.com... Is it just me or does it seem like the electronic hobby is dying. I live in a fairly large city and it is very difficult to find electronic components now. All the electronic suppliers are gone except for radio shack and they suck. Am I wrong about this? |
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