Suppliers
From London Hackspace Wiki
In no particular order a list of places that sell stuff that is relevant to our interests:
London retail or trade counter
- RS has most things, more professional. 4 trade counters, including Bow.
- Cricklewood Electronics A real shop, with little drawers of stuff & everything.
- Maplin chain, more hobbyist. Getting really poor at actual components.
- Cool Components Sparkfun stuff. Personal callers now allowed by appointment.
London-based, primarily mail order
(not known whether personal calling is allowed)
- Earthshine Arduinos and other parts
- skpeng
Mail order
- Farnell has everything, more professional. Owns CPC and Newark.
- Rapid mix of stuff. Colchester.
- tinker.it
- Amazon (next-day with Russ's Amazon Prime account) - equipment is often cheaper
- Bits Box
- Barend Hendriksen Holland. Interesting RF parts.
- Keytronics Obsolete IC supplier mail order, can also be found at radio rallies.
Classified ads and junk sales
- engineering machinery , materials and small ads
- amateur radio rallies have lots of interesting junk and random components
