Digi-Key Corporation is a large distributor of electronic parts and tools. You can find just about anything here. When looking for a part it is a good idea to check here along with Jameco & Mouser. Check out their Conversion Calculators.
Jameco Electronics is a large distributor of electronic parts and tools. You can find just about anything here. When looking for a part it is a good idea to check here along with Digi-Key & Mouser.
Mouser Electronics is a large distributor of electronic parts and tools. You can find just about anything here. When looking for a part it is a good idea to check here along with Digi-Key & Jameco.
Since 2003, SparkFun has been helping turn ideas into reality – whether you’re creating a smart weather station, exploring the frontier of machine learning, building a robot for school or prototyping your first (or tenth) product. No matter your vision or skill level, our open source components, resources and online tutorials are designed to broaden access to innovative technology and make the road to a finished project shorter.
Adafruit was founded in 2005 by MIT engineer, Limor “Ladyada” Fried. Her goal was to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels. Adafruit makes all-original DIY electronics kits and is a New York City based company that sells kits and parts for original, open source hardware electronics projects.
All Electronics Corporation is a surplus distributor that has a pretty good selection of parts. As with any surplus distributor, items you find here may be a one time buyout and never be available again.
Electronic Goldmine is a surplus distributor that has a pretty good selection of parts. As with any surplus distributor, items you find here may be a one time buyout and never be available again.
Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read inputs – light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message – and turn it into an output – activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board.
A Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized computer originally designed for education, inspired by the 1981 BBC Micro. The Raspberry Pi is slower than a modern laptop or desktop but is still a complete Linux computer and can provide all the expected abilities that implies, at a low-power consumption level.
Forums about Robotics, Electronics, Microcontrollers, Single Board Computers, Classic Computers and More. (Arduino, AVR, Basic Stamp, PIC, Propeller, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone, 3D Printing)
Hackaday serves up Fresh Hacks Every Day from around the Internet. Their playful posts are the gold-standard in entertainment for engineers and engineering enthusiasts.
Embedded is the show for people who love gadgets: making them, breaking them, and everything in between. Interviews with engineers, educators, and enthusiasts. If you’re interested, check out my interview on Embedded.fm #89: I Have New Batteries
An off-the-cuff radio show and podcast for electronics enthusiasts and professionals. Featuring Chris Gammell and Dave Jones.
Here you will find a collection of robot projects that Steve Norris has built over the past few years. You are free to use the schematics, diagrams and source code to build your own version for non-commercial use.
