buying local
- Fricke Artists supplies (the old style stuff), Amalienstraße 17
- Riediger hardware store
- CCM Weimar Computer Center Matthey, Teichgasse 18/Graben 5 – PC-Store (website is absolutely useless, sometimes they decide not to answer emails nor picking up the phone)
- Elektro Bachman, Weimar Shrink tubing and installation materials.
- Thiemann Elektronik Erfurt - electronic components
Baumärkte
- Hagebau Batzner, Buttelstedter Str. 27
- Toom, Ernst-Busse-Str. 6
- OBI, Landhausallee 18 (Most relaxing to get to by bike. Steep hill, but then trough the forest without car traffic)
Electric and electronic parts
Microcontrollers, Arduinos and shields
See Arduino Links for tutorials and how-tos.
- Antratek Embedded electronic
- Hübner Elektronik Erfurt (online store only.)
- watterott Arduino stuff, german SparkFun distributor.
- exp-tech Arduino boards, shields, sensors, motors, - very similar to Watterott.
- bausteln Arduinos and more
- segor.de - electronics supplier and mailorder Berlin, sells Arduinos
- TinkerSoup - Berlin based electronic kitchen
- olimex.eu - bulgarian manufacturer of PCB. Sells the OpenEEG and different Arduinos.
- adafruit industries - all sorts of Arduino things, kits and accessories
- sparkfun.com - The #1 US-Store for Arduino and related electronics
- makershed.com - online store for electronics and stuff published in make magazine
- XBoard V2 An Arduino Board with built in Ethernet Interface
- NKC electronics: Seeduino and Arduino - They claim to have the largest selection on Arduino related Products. USA
- seedstudio.com Seeduinos (Arduinos with on-board processors instead of ones in sockets). From China.
- Solenoid shield
(Consumer) electronics
- reichelt.de - good and fair + they have their own wiki
- voelkner.de - fast
- pollin.de - cheap (sometimes very crappy) electronics
- pearl.de - even cheaper an crappier
- elv.de - all sorts of stuff
- SLY electronics - electronics supplier
- rufenach - electronics supplier (Businesses only)
- Rutronik - electronics supplier (Businesses only)
- danto - My god! They've got everything: GPS devices, holy mary statues - and sex toys. Fast.
- conrad.de - huge product range but very expensive (usually 50% to 60% compared to other stores. Voelkner has the exact same catalog, they belong together)
- farnell.de - huge product range, normal pricings, but for students and companies only!
- MUTR.co.uk - British Electronic Supplier: Weired, Fun, Smart, Technology, Materials
- parallax.com - variety of sensors
- elektro-versandshop.de - bulk electrical stuff
- kemo-electronic.de
- sullus selling kemo kits too
Cables
Computers and information technology
- PreiswertePC.de – Webshop for new and refurbished office PC's and Mac computers. Store in Berlin.
- HD-computer - IT Store in Berlin
- Cyberport - Mailorder from Dresden (they left me waiting tree months lately with no excuse or notice)
- ATELCO - Mailorder for Computer Hardware
- redcoon - another Mailorder
- Home of hardware (cancom) - sometimes slow
- mac port – good Mac deals
- hardwareversand.de - and another one.
- Kindermann - Presentation and Conferencing Hardware
Harddrives, Media and Memory
- vibuonline
- Memory Distribution GmbH - Memory and Harddrives, Mac
- http://www.mac-speicher-shop.de
Touchscreens
- Fidohub - Touchscreen Kits
Mechanical and electromechanical parts
Motors and robotic parts
- roboter-teile.de - Sensors, Motors...
- robotikhardware.de
- robotshop (Canada)
- jameco.com - robotics & SMAs
- pololu.com - motors...
- ascoss.com - robotic, visions systems, grippers
- technobots - UK mailorder (but quick)
- maxonmotor.de - high precision motors
- faulhaber - micromotors
- amazing one - really amazing webshop
- nanotec - stepper motors and great motor controls (Don't order there if you need it quick. Beware! They were adding the shipping later to the bill, so you might end up paying in advance and still getting a seperate bill for the shipping)
- YourDuino Motors, Sensors and other accessories useful to build robots. Ships from China - expect 3 weeks for standard shipping.
Ressources
Gears
- Mädler gears, cogwheels, worm drives
Switches
Fabrics
- Aetnafelt.com - Felt
- molton24.de - Molton, auch mit Konfektionierung
- cronenberg-buehnenbedarf.de - Projection and backprojection fabrics
- gerriets.org - Projection and backprojection fabrics
- TITV Greiz (Forschungsinstitut, kein Hersteller/Anbieter/Shop - nur konkrete Projektideen!; Sehr nette Leute.)
Cardboard
- Ilm-Pack, cheap, they have many different types of corrugated board
Inks
- Riskreactor.com - Invisible, glowing, UV and Blacklight Inks, Pigments
Magnets
- Magnamagic.com - Magnetic Paint
- supermagnete.de - neodyn magnets
- modulor.de - all kinds of material you have dreamt of. Mailorder and Store in Berlin
Optics
- The Fiberoptic Store - US, International Shipping
Polymorph plastics
- shapelock.com - Mechanical Prototyping
- The Complete Sculptor - Materials, Tools, Supplies & Services
Shape memory alloys
- Dynalloy.com - Makers of Dynamic Alloys
- nitinoldraht.de
- scientificsonline.com - robotics, toys & SMAs
- memry.com (ex memory-metalle.de) - the university can't buy there because they don't deliver on invoice. (credit card needed), larger amounts are affordable.
- flexmet.be Shop for smaller amounts than Memry, but from Belgium.
Photo
See also
- Interfaces#I/O Boards for a list of interface boards
- Exhaustive list of electronic suppliers on mikrocontroller.net (German)