[Noisebridge-discuss] RadioShack video now live

[meredith scheff]

Oddly enough, I went in the one on Market today and the parts and connector
section *was* greatly expanded. awesome.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:14 PM, L E <lexein-esc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Might have been mentioned before, but  http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/
> At 5:50pm on a Sunday in San Francisco, RS gaveth an odd-sized barrel
> connector for a Canon D-10 waterproof camera and an LM317. Good enough for
> me..
>
> *From:* Taylor Alexander <tlalexander at gmail.com>
> *To:* Wladyslaw Zbikowski <embeddedlinuxguy at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 7, 2011 5:18 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] RadioShack video now live
>
> Oh yeah I know about those drawers. But they're a far cry from what radio
> shack apparently used to stock. I always hear stories from older people
> about how they learned electronics from a heathkit they bought at Radio
> Shack. I'd love it if they started carrying arduinos and sparkfun retail
> products and all that stuff, and taught a new generation of hacker types.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Wladyslaw Zbikowski <
> embeddedlinuxguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Taylor Alexander <tlalexander at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hah, I liked the part about the "special memory" of radio shack we
> hackers
> > have. "Special" in that radio shack abandoned hackers to sell cell
> phones.
>
> A little-known fact is that every Rat Shack (to my knowledge) has in
> the back a large gray cabinet with a couple dozen drawers, filled with
> assorted resistors, transistors, LEDs, and other components. This can
> be quite helpful if you're trying to finish a project at 6 on a Sunday
> evening out in East Bumfuck, Pennsylvania, for instance.
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