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Here are some
great resources to get parts and interesting stuff for your
projects:
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Misc. Parts and Components |
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www.jameco.com |
Almost all of the parts needed
for these boards are available here. |
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www.digikey.com |
Good source for some of the
harder to find items |
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www.newark.com |
Also a good source but a little
pricier |
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www.allelectronics.com |
Can sometimes find better
prices on some components here. Worth checking |
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www.mpja.com |
Same as above. |
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www.hosfelt.com |
Same as above. |
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www.web-tronics.com |
Same as above. |
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www.mcmelectronics.com |
Good source of positive-resist
blank circuit boards and developer |
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Surplus Equipment |
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www.candhsales.com |
Good source of surplus
equipment and supplies like stepper motors and power
supplies |
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www.herbach.com |
Same |
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www.surpluscenter.com |
Interesting surplus equipment |
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Data Acquisition Boards |
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www.weedtech.com |
My favorite! Very nice and
easy to use boards that are connected to your
computer by serial cable. No drivers are needed and
they are daisy-chainable (up to 32 individually
addressable boards on one serial port!) so you can
mix and match them. I use these a lot! I have nice
example software in VB 6.0 available for most of
these boards. |
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www.rmv.com |
Another source of nice serial
interface DAC and motion control boards. A little
higher priced but very reliable and useful. I have
used their ST400 boards in several applications and
also have VB example software for this board, too. |
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www.ni.com |
These boards are generally
considered the benchmark for DAC boards (and are
priced accordingly!). Very reliable. Require
drivers to be installed on your computer. |
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www.measurementcomputing.com |
These DAC boards are comparable
to the ones provided by National Instruments but
generally less expensive. They require drivers.
They have a nice USB interfaced board (PMD Series). |
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