OT: Canadian source for electronics hobby gear, parts
This is off topic, but I thought I might get some advice here. I have been asked to make a small electronic device. I have instructions, but the supplies are sourced from US or UK companies, which of course incur heavy shipping and exchange-rate taxes. Does anyone have a source for electronics gear (I'll need a bluetooth LE module, a Wixel, battery, resistors, heat-shrink tubing, a small enclosure, soldering iron, etc) in Canada, or someone you've had good experiences with? Thanks! William
Locally? Creatron or Canada Robotix. Mail order? Solarbotics. Cheers Stewart On Feb 24, 2015 3:24 PM, "William Witteman" <wwitteman@gmail.com> wrote:
This is off topic, but I thought I might get some advice here.
I have been asked to make a small electronic device. I have instructions, but the supplies are sourced from US or UK companies, which of course incur heavy shipping and exchange-rate taxes.
Does anyone have a source for electronics gear (I'll need a bluetooth LE module, a Wixel, battery, resistors, heat-shrink tubing, a small enclosure, soldering iron, etc) in Canada, or someone you've had good experiences with?
Thanks!
William --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Probably not the Wixel or Bluetooth module, but for a storefront in Ontario you could try Sayal for the rest. <http://www.sayal.com/STORE/index.asp> -- Scott
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:49:55PM -0500, Scott Allen wrote:
Probably not the Wixel or Bluetooth module, but for a storefront in Ontario you could try Sayal for the rest. <http://www.sayal.com/STORE/index.asp>
Yeah Sayal has a lot of stuff. Especially the store on woodbine in markham. -- Len Sorensen
Cool, thanks for the recommendations! I should have specified that I need mail order - I live in Quebec City now, and Toronto stores are too far, and Quebec stores seem non-existent. William On 24 February 2015 at 15:49, Scott Allen <mlxxxp@gmail.com> wrote:
Probably not the Wixel or Bluetooth module, but for a storefront in Ontario you could try Sayal for the rest. <http://www.sayal.com/STORE/index.asp>
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On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 15:53 -0500, William Witteman wrote:
Cool, thanks for the recommendations! I should have specified that I need mail order - I live in Quebec City now, and Toronto stores are too far, and Quebec stores seem non-existent.
Places in Montreal you could try: http://www.ca.diigiit.com/ http://abra-electronics.com/ Mel.
William
On 24 February 2015 at 15:49, Scott Allen <mlxxxp@gmail.com> wrote:
Probably not the Wixel or Bluetooth module, but for a storefront in Ontario you could try Sayal for the rest. <http://www.sayal.com/STORE/index.asp>
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The quality may be questionable, but you can get a lot of these things on aliexpress.com . Shipping is usually free, but you'll likely have to wait a month for delivery. The payments are escrowed through aliexpress and only released to the seller when you've confirmed you've received the item (which you should only do after you've tested the item and confirmed that it works fine). resistors: http://www.aliexpress.com/category/400503/resistors.html soldering irons: http://www.aliexpress.com/category/144003/electric-soldering-irons.html heat shrink tubing: http://www.aliexpress.com/category/141903/insulation-materials-elements.html On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:17 PM, William Witteman <wwitteman@gmail.com> wrote:
This is off topic, but I thought I might get some advice here.
I have been asked to make a small electronic device. I have instructions, but the supplies are sourced from US or UK companies, which of course incur heavy shipping and exchange-rate taxes.
Does anyone have a source for electronics gear (I'll need a bluetooth LE module, a Wixel, battery, resistors, heat-shrink tubing, a small enclosure, soldering iron, etc) in Canada, or someone you've had good experiences with?
Thanks!
William --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 15:17 -0500, William Witteman wrote:
This is off topic, but I thought I might get some advice here.
I have been asked to make a small electronic device. I have instructions, but the supplies are sourced from US or UK companies, which of course incur heavy shipping and exchange-rate taxes.
Does anyone have a source for electronics gear (I'll need a bluetooth LE module, a Wixel, battery, resistors, heat-shrink tubing, a small enclosure, soldering iron, etc) in Canada, or someone you've had good experiences with?
Small parts, enclosures -- Supremetronics/Home Hardware. College west of Spadina, north side (if they haven't moved.)
Thanks!
William --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:17:03 -0500 William Witteman <wwitteman@gmail.com> wrote:
This is off topic, but I thought I might get some advice here.
I have been asked to make a small electronic device. I have instructions, but the supplies are sourced from US or UK companies, which of course incur heavy shipping and exchange-rate taxes.
Does anyone have a source for electronics gear (I'll need a bluetooth LE module, a Wixel, battery, resistors, heat-shrink tubing, a small enclosure, soldering iron, etc) in Canada, or someone you've had good experiences with?
Thanks!
William
William, I think Electrosonic has a walk-in store. https://www.e-sonic.com/ -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca howard.gibson@optech.com jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson
William,
I think Electrosonic has a walk-in store.
Really? They closed that place on Gordon Baker at Vic Park, and I heard they moved to Buffalo. They imploded after the founder retired. The Active Electronics store, on the other side of the same parking lot, has also closed. I think the bricks-and-mortar stores are having a really hard time surviving competition from Digikey and Mouser. Peter -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325
On 02/24/2015 10:01 PM, phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca wrote:
https://www.e-sonic.com/ Really? They closed that place on Gordon Baker at Vic Park, and I heard they moved to Buffalo.
They imploded after the founder retired.
Check the link. They're now in Markham.
On Feb 25, 2015 7:59 AM, "James Knott" <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
Check the link. They're now in Markham.
Their office is up near Buttonville but I don't think they have a pickup facility. Everything's delivered out of NY state now. (Longtime local unix nerd - and the guy who gave me my first job in Canada - Les Gondor is the sysadmin at Electrosonic.) Cheers Stewart
On 2015-02-24 12:17, William Witteman wrote:
I have been asked to make a small electronic device. I have instructions, but the supplies are sourced from US or UK companies, which of course incur heavy shipping and exchange-rate taxes.
Does anyone have a source for electronics gear in Canada
There used to be about 6 parts stores in the Victoria Park and Steeles area years ago but several of them have closed shop. Sayal may still be there, and Future (or was it Active?) Electronics. I always forget which is whichof Future and Active. I think Future supports the commercial buyers while Active is more for the consumer/hobbyist. The URL for Future is http://www.futureelectronics.com/ Electrosonic (http://www.e-sonic.com/) used to be there but they closed shop. I had heard they moved operations to the US but that might have changed again since then. If you are looking for prototype quantities there is always eBay. You can do a search for Canadian sellers of parts. Other options would be Arrow Electronics (http://www.arrow.com/), and AVNET (http://www.avnet.com/). If you did want to check places in the states you have Mouser, DigiKey, and Futurelec.
On 02/24/2015 09:42 PM, kcozens wrote:
Sayal may still be there, and Future (or was it Active?) Electronics. I always forget which is whichof Future and Active. I think Future supports the commercial buyers while Active is more for the consumer/hobbyist. The URL for Future is http://www.futureelectronics.com/
Electrosonic (http://www.e-sonic.com/) used to be there but they closed shop. I had heard they moved operations to the US but that might have changed again since then.
There used to be Active there and Electrosonic moved to Markham.
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