[fireman15]

I'm reduced to DigiKey, Mouser, Sparkfun, Adafruit and Element14 using online ordering for parts. The days of making a field visit for an electronics repair and having basic parts on hand at a local RS store are over.

Thanks for the post! I haven't ordered anything from Sarkfun, Adafruit or Element14. I have been looking over their websites in the last few minutes.

[Myrddin]

I use those vendors for small scale prototypes. Good for PIC, XBee, Arduino, many sensors, power supplies, USB interfaces, programming tools and Raspberry PI. The XBee with Digimesh firmware was helpful on my railroad project in 2008.

[backwoods-engineer]

I’ve ordered from all 3. Very hobbyist-friendly. Even though I am a professional and do it for a living, electronics is still a hobby :-)