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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: Togo5 on April 10, 2007, 03:35:27 PM
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Does anyone know of a british or english (£) website/dealer that supplies microcontrollers???
there must be many englsih robotics enthusiasts using this site as with very long thorough serching very few have come up
i am after the OOPIC-R board as iv heard its excellent
if anyone knows where i can get it in £ i would be very greatfull
thanks for your help.
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Get samples from Microchip. That's always quite fun.
Also, don't rapid electronics, rs components or............*groans*.........maplin 'electronics' do any?
Farnell, per chance?
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iv tried maplin, they only do one very simple type of microcontroller/programmer.
thx, ill try the others
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Maplin are stupid. That's why.
If you have any major problems I could help.......or I probably know people who will anyway.
Good searching etc
!!
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yup. Hal9000 has the list of supliers i use covered appart from:
http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/home/homepage.jsp (http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/home/homepage.jsp)
(a little more customer freindly than digikey but a better range of bits than rs components.)
dunk.
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thanks, the cheapest i can find it is £58, which isnt too bad, ill order it soon, i just gotta figure out how to use it now as iv never used a microcontroller or attempted to program!!!
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yup. Hal9000 has the list of supliers i use covered appart from:
http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/home/homepage.jsp (http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/home/homepage.jsp)
(a little more customer freindly than digikey but a better range of bits than rs components.)
dunk.
Yeah I said farnell actually *rasps* lol
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meh.
so you did.
type louder next time.
(i guess i meant to include http://digikey.com/ (http://digikey.com/). a *huge* range of parts but good luck with their catalouge if you don't know exactly what you want....)
dunk.
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meh.
so you did.
type louder next time.
(i guess i meant to include http://digikey.com/ (http://digikey.com/). a *huge* range of parts but good luck with their catalouge if you don't know exactly what you want....)
dunk.
Lol yeah, digikey scares the crap outta me
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I love digikey, order from them all the time. Their online search engine is excellent - I almost never look in the paper catalog.
Digikey is the only place I know of where if you need a part, you can have it in your hands the next morning, without paying outrageous shipping fees.
- Jon
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I love digikey, order from them all the time. Their online search engine is excellent - I almost never look in the paper catalog.
Digikey is the only place I know of where if you need a part, you can have it in your hands the next morning, without paying outrageous shipping fees.
- Jon
I find that the shipping fees are rediculous. Are we talking about the same digikey? ;)
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I pay $8 (CAD) flat rate shipping. Since I normally order over $100 worth of stuff, its a small percentage. Normally next day shipping costs $30-40.
And not only that, but I'm in a different country!
Digikey has a sweet setup - every day, they take all the Canadian orders, load them into a truck, and then drive a truck to the border. They go through customs, and then (presumably) to Purolator's distribution center in Manitoba. For orders I submit up to about 5:00 pm EST, I get the next morning, typically by 10:00 am.
- Jon
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So, maybe because it's canada. I'll maybe try again in the not too distant future. Their stock is amazing, though. I agree.