now that radioshack/frys are dead, where do you go to buy small electronics for robotics and arduinoshit?
I mean, brick n mortar not online
now that radioshack/frys are dead, where do you go to buy small electronics for robotics and arduinoshit?
now that radioshack/frys are dead, where do you go to buy small electronics for robotics and arduinoshit?
I mean, brick n mortar not online
>small electronics
a lot of the non-chain 'phone repair' kind of shops have a pretty good assortment if you just need 1 of something. I work at one, people come in asking for specific stuff like resistors or power regs every once in a while. Some home improvement shops have a limited selection too.
If you have a community/tech college nearby that's even better.
>If you have a community/tech college nearby that's even better.
My tech school is cool. Good soldering stations, decent amount of gear, but they nickle and dime unless youre doing approved projects, so theres no way theyd ever part with a single resistor.
You almost have to go to Amazon or Newegg, honestly. Brick and mortar retail is hard enough to keep running, it only gets harder for niche hobbyist stuff.
This
There was one little shop left that sold a lot of electronics stuff and did TV repair and such in the back, I think they had been around for a few decades, and they seem to be gone now. That was the one store I could find within ~45min driving in a huge metro area.
No money to be made selling components, and it’s not worth repairing TVs anymore when a new one is $248 at Walmart, so the places can’t survive.
Maybe a hobby shop? People are getting more into electronics in the RC hobby.
was radioshack brick and mortar...?
>was radioshack brick and mortar...?
You have to be 18 to use this site.
>You have to be 18 to use this site.
tfw you realize today's 18 year olds were ten years old in 2015
Impressive math skills anon.
Thank you, I did it all in my head too. Didn't even need a calculator
israelite MAGIC
That must be genes, because I when I doing your mom she keeps it in her head too.
Underage please go.
It was if you consider Chipotle to be brick and mortar. There was one in almost every mall in America in the 80s and 90s.
Yep, over 8000 stores at its peak and not one of them would sell you a battery without giving your address. Their parent company, Tandy, had twin towers for its headquarters, complete with an ice rink and train system.
Ruins of the Tandy/Leonard's subway system.
Radioshack's finally been done in?
yeah, and they're even saying the Black guy might become president.
Kek
>even in bigger cities
That’s what I’m saying. There was one that I knew of from Palm Beach down to Miami, and that’s a giant metro area and that store finally gave up a year or two back.
Maybe there is some specialty warehouse, especially considering so much shit gets shipped to South America from here, but not going to be a retail store you can walk into for a couple resistors.
Oh, hush your mouth honeychild!
independently owned hobby shops.
We had a place called sayal here that was better than those places but it also is closing stores
Currently there's zero stores in our city of like 150k people that does this
I think online dealers have taken over
most of the 'shacks in ontario were purchased by a company called "the source by circuit city" (stupid name) then a few years later they decide they were only going to sell phones for some reason
hello fellow ontario chad. sayal's still open in toronto. there's also a home hardware near chinatown that has a huge basement filled with electronics
Frick yeah! I've literally hopped on my bicycle and headed out to Sayal mid-workday if I needed networking shit for the office.
Doesn't surprise me that smaller cities are suffering a bit on this, but major ones ought not to have issues if you know where to look.
Well shit, learned something new to do next weekend. Gonna check out Sayal, Thanks
>then a few years later they decide they were only going to sell phones for some reason
That's...literally what killed Radio Shack.
The morons.
Zero brick and mortar even in bigger cities. Mouser/Digikey/Jameco. My #1 is Mouser by far.
this, even hardware stores are dying. home depot/rona/cambodian tire/etc are basically just furniture stores now.
Microcenter of you're lucky to have one close.
>now that radioshack/frys are dead
>NOW!?
radio shack has been irrelevant for about 30 years and fry's was shit since about 2000
now it's digikey, newark, ebay and amazon for most modern shit, just radios, and antique electronics supply for older stuff.
WHY? Learn to maintain your own bench stock. Not fricking hard.
Why do (other) boomers miss that shit? It's like bluehaired old c**ts missing shopping malls. It's the least efficient way to buy electronics.
^This
> learn to maintain own bench stock
It’s usually a shared lab resource, i don’t want to spend 20 minutes untangling a bunch of kinked testleads every time I want to use one. Check out Carlson’s Lab for how. (Some learning for you)
Also, don’t store your caps and signal diodes in styrofoam. Literally never seen that. MOS devices in pink or black foam, sure.
What are the goggles for in a small signal lab?
Can you imagine walking around campus with that big tacklebox with $10 worth of diodes and caps?
Ngmi.
Makes me think all pics of the people holding the heating element of the soldering iron are real ee students.
The Electrical Engineering building at your local university. They usually will have a student run store on site that sells components at near cost. Their selection is mostly limited to the things students need for their projects but that covers most of the basics.
Example of exactly how to NOT store your test leads. We’d receive a beating if we did that in the days when an ee degree wasn’t “programming” an arduino to blink a led.
you usually hang them from a rack since it is more convenient to separate them like that and they don't get tangled but you can store them however you want there is zero harm in that.
Frick off with those posed photos. If you don't have enough shit that it takes 5 minutes of frickery to get your box to close, you aren't an EE.
>t. parts stock is measured in cubic yards
You really think people actually pose for photos of them casually doing their work? Unheard of!
The shameless grift of it all still pisses me off
you remind me of a guy i know who gets unironically upset that there's ads while he browses tiktok
What grown man browses tiktok? Must be a pedo
Nice bus carpet bro
There's still a Radioshack open the next town over from me.
There's a few independent dealers left, selling whatever stock they still have and using the name because they can. Even after they've sold their last Realistic Flavoradio, they'll probably keep up the sign because why pay for a new one when everyone already knows them as Radio Shack?
Sounds like someone just enjoy coming up with excuses to justify beating you.
Where are you? Some cities have electronics hobby stores. But usually not part of a chain, so you'll have to go looking in your area.
Camden, NJ. Not sure if we have one.
I'd be surprised if you had running water
https://store.sacelec.com/ is my go to, kind of a local secret but I want them to stay in business.
https://www.ax-man.com/
if you’re in the cities
Is this a real place or some kind of joke store?
>Is this a real place or some kind of joke store?
Yes, and yes. It does exist and it's a great place to find stuff for physical prop comedy. Oh, and surplus electronics too. Also in the
Twin Cities we have Ness Electronics (.com) and Shop Jimmy (.com) plus several Radio Shacks in the outlying areas. There are computer recyclers and other interesting places.
When I lived in California there was a really nice local store called JK Electronics. For online I just use digikey or amazon now. I ordered $300 of shit from banggood that never arrived one time. Frick those dirty chinks. I hate the chinese more than anything else in the world
Jaycar if you're in Aus/NZ and don't mind spending 32.90NZD for a single MJ10012 transistor.
I work there, AMA.
Microcenter still has a decent selection of tools and OK selection of parts.
Parts Express has been my go to for awhile. Online shop but they do have a show room you can stop in and buy from if you're in Ohio.
>electronic hobbyists
>playing with LED lights
>in 2000 + 23
Only reason normal people used memeshack back in the day was for cell phones. Why would you need meme boards nowadays?
>radioshack/frys are dead
Are you detarded? Radio Shack is still around.
yeah but Radioshack today is nothing like it used to be...I was in Radioshacks towards the end and they were just cheap cellphones, shitty home phones, and generic netbooks
you could barely find RCA/AV cables at them anymore, I can't imagine how cucked and fricked the new ones must be
Think what you want. They have the basics.
this is all online though, which means you don't need to get it at Radioshack you can buy it from one of a billion retailers who sell this stuff.
I want to be able to go into a local store and peruse these items
Oh for frick's sake dude! I've been in several stores. They often are indies with other stock available. You should shut up and try it yourself. Personally, I don't have much use for them myself anymore, but I'm glad they're there when/if I need them.
What the frick? $3 for some 18DIP socket and $5 for some basic low current PNP transistor??? For that price I could get 100 of them from aliexpress or 10 from digikey/mauser/tme.
>two 16-pin sockets
>tree fiddy with tip
I'll just keep ordering from Amazon, where they're like a nickel each, but they throw them in a little bag and you have to straighten out the bent leads and sometimes move pins around to replace broken ones. And shipping is free after $25 if you don't mind waiting a week.
It was okay when I could get in the car and be back in under an hour, but if I'm going to wait, I'm not paying three bucks for a hang card. Even for real parts I'd go to someplace like Mouser.
I've got a couple of bins worth of RS stuff from the various waves of closeouts near me. If I find really old stuff I'll put it in there too.
Those prices remind me of Maplin before it went bust. No one buying those chips is inexperienced enough to not know the better way of sourcing them.
Kek 13 items in stock, yeah
That's a filter thingy. That means of all the things that match the search words, 13 of them are "in stock", and to only show those. It's not a quantity, because which item is there 13 of? And that round green check mark being the "selected" version of an empty black square is a horrible UI choice. Forcing an un-highlighted vertical scroll bar on a tiny box showing all items is also shit UI.
It's still lame to order anything from that, those prices are for brick-and-mortar where you have to pay rent on hundreds of stores.
Radioshack isn't dead, they are just online only now.
>RadioShack is dead
There is still like over stores and their website is up too.
Those are independent dealers who retained the rights to the name when the company blew up. They're not company owned stores. They're not really even franchises. They're independent electronics stores that have the right to put the name on their sign and have access to purchase Radio Shack merchandise to sell in their stores. I'm not sure if the owners of the website even have branded merch to sell to dealers anymore or if they're just burning through the leftover new old stock.
face it boys the world we grew up in is dead, and it's never coming back.
try to remember the good times
>walk into RS when I'm 8
>they've got MS Flight Sim running on some huge box computer with a Sidewinder joystick hooked up
>next to it is an Air Hog display
>with some NiCad RC cars off to the side
>and a big grey cordless phone/answering machine combo
>end cap full of Bell calling cards
>big RCA dog point of sale display hangs over it all
>all backlit by a wall of CRT televisions playing muted episodes of Saved by the Bell
Confirmed. The owner of the RadioShack name is licensing the name to independent electronics stores.
It's Wyoming so I didn't expect it to be a large store but certainly pales in comparison to the RadioShack.com megastores (35,000 sq ft) that briefly existed.
>the RadioShack.com megastores
Do you mean Inedible Universe? I only got to see one as it was closing out, it later became a Fry's.
No, Radio Shack had a small number of big box size stores called RadioShack.com. I never went to one of the Incredible Universe stores but they appear to have been more mainstream than RadioShack.com, which was still very techie in nature. They didn't sell appliances, it was pretty much just a larger selection of what you'd find in a normal Radio Shack. The one I went to in Atlanta even had a full size antenna mast assembled and laying on its side to impress the ham guys. Instead of a dozen or so technical books, they had hundreds. The AV department included a noise isolated listening room. I'd say it was like Fry's if you got rid of the home appliances and restaurant, though still a bit more geeky. Think more ham and robotics hobbyists than gamers and housewives shopping there.
Unfortunately, the name RadioShack.com makes it impossible to search for more information because the search engines think you're asking about the website instead of the big box store. The one in Atlanta became a Marshalls, which I guess is about as opposite to a Radio Shack that a store can be.
hello based dallas/fort worth chad (the home of radioshack headquarters) god i fricking loved going into store one where they had corporate staff running the worlds nicest radioshack as a way to gauge interest in potential products and they had every single product for sale taken out of the box so you could try it out hands on DEAR GOD TAKE ME BACK
Sweet! Would have loved to have been able to do that, though as a kid, I do remember many Radio Shack's had demo RC cars out that you could play around with.
They used to have lots of radios for kids. Love how someone slipped in a Budweiser radio in with the kid stuff.
Shenzhen alleyway
Chinese markets look cool. Jealous ngl
>tfw have a goddamn room packed with Radioshack merch, awards, and a frickhuge sign in my garage from a store that I helped remodel.
homies gave me branding irons as awards, so I could mark my employees properly I guess.
Sounds like you're ready open your own authorized independent RadioShack dealer store in your garage. Since Tandy was headquartered in Fort Worth, the branding irons sounds like something they'd do. When they put their first computer with color graphics on the market in 1981, one of the release titles was 'Wildcatting', a game of oil exploration. They loved all that Texas stuff.
Hobby shop that specializes in RC stuff
>tfw no microcenters in central Florida
I'm sure you can get a Wal-Mart associate in the electronics department to chase you up and down the aisles offering to put a sticker on your purchases.
>Florida
found your problem
My parents live in the middle of absolute nowhere and RadioShack is one of the 10 stores in the town. Of all RadioShacks, I don't know how the frick that one is still going.
Sounds like it was an independent dealer rather than a corporate store.
I have scientific supply store nearby with telescopes, etc. that sells some electronic components
My local dump's attendant lets me go into the electronics recycling containers & smash stuff appart. Bonanza!
My dad used to take me to Radioshack as a kid to look at RC cars.
I used to buy XMOD stuff
Even Microcenter has 2005 Radioshack-tier component selection, which makes it next to useless.
>order 10X as many components as you need when you need them
>10 units cost less than you'd pay for a single component at a brick and mortar store
>start maintaining inventory when you open the first package
>check your BOM against inventory before starting a project
>once a year go through it and see what your dead/hot stock is
>sell/buy accordingly
>pay your annual hackerspace dues in components you'll never use
>share a link to your current inventory with the community
>let them trade you slightly above average fellatio for a hand full of neopixels that won't take a two weeks to arrive
>become ungovernable