Electronic Kits Where To Buy Them? Answered

Digikey, Electronic goldmine?

I personally use some of the Maplin kits. They are a bit pricy but there is a large range to choose from (I think)

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I feel your pain. The only 2 real choices I see are bidding on a Heathkit on EBay or making something from scratch. There is alot of good stuff on this site for making circuit boards from scratch. You could use the same techniques to make a silkscreen -like panel. Parts can be had at Jameco.com or Mouser.com and electronics goldmine to name a few. I am looking into getting a subscription to Nuts and Volts magazine. It looks to be the latest incarnation of the now defunct Radio-Electronics/ Popular Electronics.

Thanks anyone got any other links?

Although a bit more expensive, Edmund Scientifics has a variety of kits too.

Thanks great links! In regards to the ardurino, I am more old style electonics not the newer circuit boards and such, in other words im a vetaran noob with stuff like that.

• 2D kits makes a variety of rather neat blinking LED things.
• Adafruit Industries Sells a variety of "Clever" gadgets. (Run by sometimes-instructable-contributer Lady Ada)
• Electronics Goldmine sells a variety of kits. I believe that these are a subset of China-produced kits that are in fact sold by quite a few different electronic distributers. ( BG Micro is another. )