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A comment on Ask HN: What is the current state of the “Maker Movement”?.

Re:Ask HN: What is the current state of the “Maker Movement”? by arkades on Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:35PM (#18251879)
Radio Shack sells - sold - a small variety of components at a massive markup. Compared to things like McMaster-Carr and ladyada/sparkfruit, I don’t think it’s been in any way relevant to the modern “maker” movement.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the current state of the “Maker Movement”? by bluGill on Thursday October 18, 2018 @05:07PM (#18252123)
Radio Shack was still useful though. Sure the markup was high, but they had the 60 ohm resister I need and I'm back to my project in an hour (well 62 ohm but close enough).

Actually their kits and equipment were not overpriced by much and of good enough quality that I could trust them without having to do research to see what was good.

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