Retailers
From Hackerspace Adelaide
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[edit] General electronics retailers
[edit] Adelaide
- Aztronics
- Old fashioned electronics store, City and Enfield. Altronics reseller - Aztronics' prices are usually the same.
- 170 Sturt Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, Phone: (08) 8212 6212
- 470A Main North Rd, Blair Athol SA 5084, Phone: (08) 8349 6340
- Hackerspace Adelaide has a Trade Price deal with Aztronics. Simply say you're from "hackerspace" and you'll get the trade price on all electronics, at both stores. (thanks Ralph!)
- Jaycar
- General electronics retailer. City, Gepps Cross, Clovelly Park, Reynella.
- Gawler Electronics
- Currently online only. Jorn attends Hackerspace and is happy to drop off purchases there or in town.
- Repairs to mobile phones, games (Wii & DS, XBox, Playstation), Netbooks & Laptops.
- Sells gadgets, S/H phones & laptops, multimeters, components, tools and soldering equipment.
- Hackerspace Adelaide members get Trade Price at www.gawlerelectronics.com
[edit] Australia
- Altronics
- Interstate retail electronics store. Sells SMT gear in reasonable quantities. Aztronics is a local reseller.
- Element 14 (formerly Farnell)
- Massive range, prices can vary. $13 shipping, free above $45. $10 minimum order.
- RS Australia
- Similar to Element 14.
Their site isn't as easy to searchRS now have a "NEW advanced parametric search", so you can more easily select the parameters you want. Free shipping, no minimum order! - X-on
- Mouser reseller. $15 delivery below $200, free above.
- Rockby
- Regular electronics parts and surplus. Some cheap LCD screens. Freight starts at $10.
[edit] Worldwide
- Futurlec
- Great prices, slow delivery (from Thailand - allow about 12 days). $4 delivery for orders <$50. If you haven't got the "order shipped" within a few days, ask them if you can remove parts if they're not in stock.
- Avnet
- Asian element14-style store. Apparently has free shipping, but not sure if it's to Australia.
Also see Bhasa (really cheap stuff, but payment is tricky), and Sure Electronics (nice LED matrices, surplus, modules etc), Surplustronics (NZ).
[edit] Hobbyist electronics
[edit] Australia
- Freetronics
- Apparently they sell stuff from the Practical Arduino book. Their website doesn't tell you much about them. Their SMT oven uses Twitter!
- Little Bird
- $5.50-$8.50 shipping <$150, free above. Hackerspace has an order code for 10% discount on orders over $200 - Contact User:Pix for info.
- Protogear
- Similar to Little Bird. "Australia Post Real Time Rates".
- Toys Down Under
- Robot Gear
- Shipping from $6.50.
- Australian Robotics
- Arduinos, displays etc. $6.50 shipping, free above $50.
- Dontronics
- Not the cheapest, but they have some interesting stuff. $5.50 shipping.
- MicroZed
- Picaxe retailer
- Squarebit
- Hobby King
- RC store. Aus and overseas store too, see below.
[edit] New Zealand
I don't think we pay GST (15%). Air mail should be about $10.
- Mindkits
- Bulk orders from Sparkfun.
[edit] Worldwide
- Seeed Studio
- Hobbyist parts, PCB manufacturing. Free shipping for USD50+.
- DealExtreme
- Yes, they even sell Arduinos cheaply (a Mega for $28). See Electronics gadgets and DIY parts and components. Some of their less popular parts can take a while to ship though.
- GoodLuckBuy
- Similar to DealExtreme. Perhaps they don't lie so much about their shipping time. They also sell components.
- Hobby King
- Parts for RC vehicles, and cheap Arduino clones. Registered shipping for $4. Some stock available from Australia (with higher shipping).
Also check ebay for cheap Arduinos (and clones), USB-TTL adapters etc. Unlike some stores, they have stock already and they're likely to dispatch stuff fairly quickly.
[edit] Not electronics
[edit] Adelaide
[edit] Woodworking
[edit] Metal casting
- AMC Supplies
- Somerton Park
[edit] Silicone and plastic casting
- Rowe Trading
- Casting substances like Smooth-On, like this. Richmond.
[edit] Specialist retailers
- Oatley Electronics
- All sorts of electronic
crapsurplus parts. About $10 shipping. - That's not garbage - Beverley
- Various stuff that people normally toss out, intended for art projects
- EL wire source
- Cheap electroluminescent wire. From Canada, shipping $2.50 (a letter) - $10.00 (air mail small parcel).
- Glyn
- Communications and USB products. Sydney.
- smallparts.com.au
- small bearings, timing pulleys, timing belts, seals, o-rings, spur gears, mitre gears, internal gears, taper pins rod ends, and so on
[edit] PCB manufacturers
- Itead
- 10 boards for about $1.40 each. 10 day delivery. Dan seems to be happy with them, but EEVBlog's Dave isn't so happy (also see these tips).
- Fusion PCB by Seeed
- Mark has had success with this
- Hackvana by Mitch aka CapnKernel on #ozhs
- From $19, fast turnaround available.
Also see the Element14 forum.
[edit] 3D printing
- Vik's filament
- from NZ
- Bilby CNC
- Printer parts, filament. NSW.
