If you'd like to see your site listed here, please email me about swapping links. On the other
hand, if your site is here and you don't want it to be here then don't hesitate to contact me
to straighten things out. Contact information can be found here.
The "Rambles and Rants" section contains links to pages that I believe many of the
people viewing this website are likely to find interesting. They are not necessarily strictly
related or even relevant to the average electronic hobbyist.
Component Outlets
Company Websites
Informational Pages
Rambles and Rants
Miscellaneous
Component Outlets:
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Jaycar Electronics
Jaycar's range of components is excellent, they even sell selected surface mount
devices.
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Dick Smith Electronics
Dick Smith seem to be phasing out component sales, but still offer plenty of
basic parts and hardware.
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Surplustronics
Based in Auckland, these guys sell all sorts of crazy old (and new) parts and equipment
at very competitive prices.
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South Island Component Centre
This is possibly the only place in New Zealand to stock some of the more obscure logic
devices, such as matrix keypad scanners.
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PMB Electronics
PMB Electronics offers a small range of components at very reasonable prices.
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Farnell InOne
Another good place to get some obscure parts but as far as I know, your orders come from
Australia which boosts the postage a bit.
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eSource Ltd
eSource is the New Zealand distributor for
Parallax Inc.
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Trade Me
Trade Me is an auction site not a component outlet, but parts and equipment (new and
used) can be found here.
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Company Websites:
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Microchip Technology Inc
Microchip Technology created the PICmicro. Look here for specs and datasheets on their
microprocessors.
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Parallax Inc
Parallax is responsible for the BASIC Stamp. All products on this site should be
available locally through
eSource Ltd.
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PICAXE
The PICAXE is a microcontroller which executes BASIC tokens much like the BASIC Stamp,
at considerably less cost.
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Texas Instruments
Creator of the MSP430 low power
micros and many other things.
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CadSoft Online
CadSoft are the authors of EAGLE (Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor) which is
a software package for creating PCB designs. It's reasonably priced (as layout editors
go) and a usable freeware version is available.
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Informational Pages:
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The PICList
For everything PIC, including an extensive source code library.
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Technische Informatica
"Technische Informatica" is Dutch for "Technical Informatics".
This site is the home of the Wisp628, the DIY PIC programmer of my choice.
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MSP430.info
Good source of information on the MSP430 microprocessor, including a handy UART baud rate
calculator.
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Rambles and Rants:
Miscellaneous:
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Robonz
An Auckland based robotics club open to all ages and levels of expertise.
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A Blank Page
A strange request from a friend who I decided to humour. Please don't
get too excited and start asking questions about this....
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