Octopart - my new home page

[pomprocker]

haha, i just discovered octopart.com

http://octopart.com/

It combines the inventories of all major electronics distributors in its results

For example, here is the search result of an IR detector i would like to pick up:
http://octopart.com/search?q=fairchild+qse157



Fairchild  -  QSE157   datasheet: pdf
assemblies logic detectoroptoswitch; optocoupler output...
*    Digi-Key    QSE157-ND    1:$0.64    avail:6950    
*    Mouser    512-QSE157    1:$0.67    avail:505    
*    Newark    78K6120    1:$0.58    avail:302    
*    Onlinecomponents.com    QSE157    1:$0.29    avail:0    
*    Arrow    QSE157         avail:n/s    
buy part - save part - specs - tech chat - *authorized
newark.com
Fairchild  -  QSE157.
*    Newark    92F2446         expired    
buy part - save part - specs - *autho


another example:
http://octopart.com/search?q=max213cai

[Admin]

Now if only there was a search available for robot parts . . . hint hint business opportunity someone

Anyway, I like http://www.findchips.com/

[pomprocker]

A lot of these electronics distributors have API's that octopart can pull from. I doubt robotics retailers have APIs

[Admin]

A lot of these electronics distributors have API's that octopart can pull from. I doubt robotics retailers have APIs

If you write it for them, they'll probably use it. Once they see the sales increase, they'll update it themselves I think.

[householdutensils]

You don't need the site to have a specialized data API, you just need it to have well notated webpages. I wrote a perl script a while back for interpreting wiki pages on periodic elements. It's pretty much like a selective web browser that only retrieves the info between the tags I want. Most webpages have div names, table names, or other labels that you can kinda jack into a haywired protocol. I did the same thing when I wrote my IRC bot, I couldn't find good documentation on quakenets ident protocols so I had to kinda hack it together with the appropriate replies to their opcodes (Or whatever they are call, I'm sell taught so I don't always have the correct terminology).

To bad I found out there was a MediaWiki API for the Wiki business a while later xD

[householdutensils]

Sorry, double post 

[Joesavage1]

i was planning to make an online robotics part buissness (yes i know im only 12), and still might; its being put into consideration and ill tell you guys if i ever do =D


Joe

[frodo]

hey, me too. we could be business partners . but seriously, could be a good project to work on, this website.

[Joesavage1]

hey, me too. we could be business partners . but seriously, could be a good project to work on, this website.

Nice Idea, were do you live agian frodo?



Thanks


Joe

[airman00]

Now if only there was a search available for robot parts . . . hint hint business opportunity someone

Interesting.....
I'll pass that over to one of my friends and see if he wants to do it. Get back to you guys on that.