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Of course they do. That's how most of use get our breadboard wires, caps, resistors, ICs, etc... Everyone in the electronics community knows that sparkfun(and s
by deelowe 14y ago
Of course they do. That's how most of use get our breadboard wires, caps, resistors, ICs, etc... Everyone in the electronics community knows that sparkfun(and sites like adafruit) aren't the cheapest in the industry, but that's not why we buy from them. Heck even mouser or digikey beat them on most stuff.
I buy from sparkfun because:
- They provide eagle files and data sheets for most things they carry
- They provide real time customer support in IRC
- They don't screw up orders or take 6 weeks to ship
- They test, use, continuously improve, and deprecate their own stuff
I know it doesn't apply in this case, but go try to find board files, schematics, or datasheets for most of this stuff on dx. There's a reason sparkfun is so popular.
- s_baby 14y agoThat and I don't want to wait a month to get my components. When I can wait, ebay it is.
- pyoung 14y agoA few months ago I bought a kit from Sparkfun to mess around with. Got everything built only to find out that something was wrong with the FTDI (I couldn't upload new sketches). After a quick e-mail exchange, Sparkfun sent out a whole new board. For people who don't know much about hardware, that kind of customer service is invaluable. Without it, I could have spent days trying to figure out what was wrong, only to give up in frustration. Instead, I got quick confirmation that there was something wrong with the board and was immediately sent a replacement (at no extra cost).