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Latest revision as of 11:21, 12 November 2013
Bay Area Prototyping Resources
Shops
Stanford Product Realization Lab http://www.stanford.edu/group/prl/prl_site/
Students can take a one hour safety training session and then use the lab for a daily or quarterly fee. Open for four hour blocks of time throughout the quarter. Not open during the summer. Resources include “traditional machining, woodworking, foundry, plastics molding, welding, finishing, and metrology tools. State-of-the-art computer-aided drawing, manufacturing, and prototyping systems are also available.”
Tech Shop – Menlo Park and San Francisco http://techshop.ws/
Monthly membership and various classes give you access to everything from CNC plasma cutters to industrial sewing machines. This is sort of like a PRL for non-university folks and they have equipment that the PRL doesn't have.
PRL Suppliers List
Great list of places to get stuff in the Bay Area.
https://productrealization.stanford.edu/resources/external-suppliers
Some Of My Favorites
Hardware:
McMaster Carr mcmaster.com They have almost any piece of hardware you could ever want. Prices are ok.
Ace on Alma - 875 Alma St Palo Alto
Metal:
Alan Steel, 505 E Bayshore Rd, Redwood City, CA 94063
On-line Metals http://www.onlinemetals.com/ Great place to get small amounts of metal
Plastic:
TAP Plastics – Mountain View, San Francisco http://www.tapplastics.com/ Best Local supplier of plastics
Douglas & Sturgess – San Francisco Supplier of all things sculptural – great supply of silicon and epoxy needs
Electronics Surplus
HSC, halted.com, 3500 Ryder St, Santa Clara, CA 95051 Close to a really good Mongolian BBQ Resturaunt (El Camino Mongolian BBQ, 3380 El Camino Real, Santa Clara)
Weird Stuff, 384 W Caribbean Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Electronic Goldmine, http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com
All Electronics, http://www.allelectronics.com
Deep Surplus: http://deepsurplus.com
New Electronics
adafruit.com
sparkfun.com
jameco.com (can pick up at will call 2 hours after you order)
digikey.com
mouser.com
parts-express.com
Wood:
Southern Lumber Co, 1402 Monterey Hwy, San Jose, CA
People and Organizations
Dorkbot
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/
You should really consider subscribing to their mailing list. It is a great resource for getting oddball technical questions answered.
Noisebridge
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
Noisebridge is an infrastructure provider for technical-creative projects, collaboratively run by its members. We are incorporated as a non-profit educational corporation for public benefit. We operate primarily in a 5,600 square-foot space located in the heart of San Francisco. We teach, we learn, we share.
Laughing Squid
"As our tagline suggests, one of the main objectives of Laughing Squid is featuring unique and interesting art, culture and technology. A secondary goal of ours is to help connect the art community with the tech community, by letting artists know what tools and resources are available to promote their work and in turn get the geeks out from behind their computer and experience more art."
Laughing Squid is not specifically focused on the Bay Area but the news they cover has a strong Bay Area bent to it. Worth checking out to find resources and interesting work happening in the area.
