RUG/California/Bay Area

Forum/Mailing List

Alternative Mailing List

[[http://groups.google.com/group/bay-area-reprap/%7C

Meetings

Location

To be determined

Time

7pm Tuesday every other week, starting with the second Tuesday in June.

Local Related Communities and Resources

• http://www.betalab01.org/
• https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
• http://thecrucible.org/
• http://www.buildcoolstuff.com/
• http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/

Nearby Robot Hobby Clubs

http://robogames.net/nrw.php

• [Home Brew Robotics Club]
• [San Francisco Robotics Society of America]
• http://www.robogames.net/
• local First Robotics Competition

• local RoboOne and Robot hobby group.

Hobby Engineering

• [Area Engine Modelers]
• [http://www.ggls.org/default.aspx]

Community Machine/Fabrication Shops

• [TechShop San Francisco]
• [TechShop San Jose and TechShop Menlo Park]
• http://www.sawdustshop.com/location.asp

Hobby Shop

• http://billabbott.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/6/

• http://www.google.com/search?q=bay+area+aluminum+casting
• http://www.google.com/search?q=bay+area+gingery
• http://www.google.com/search?q=bay+area+artist+run+center
• http://www.google.com/search?q=bay+area+experimental media
• http://www.google.com/search?q=bay+area+RC aircraft
• http://www.google.com/search?q=bay+area+hobby+machining
• http://www.google.com/search?q=bay+area+ham+radio
• http://www.google.com/search?q=bay+area+Techshop

Official RepRap Suppliers

• http://dev.forums.reprap.org/index.php?93
• Suppliers

Local Suppliers

Local Shops may be better or worse than buying from online retailers. This depends on your local shops and what you're getting. Stepper motors you'll want to get online, steel rod - perhaps not. Fasteners, it depends. You may want to check your yellow pages to look these up, as opposed to online.

• Local Steel Suppliers (e.g. Construction suppliers)

• Local Bearing Suppliers (Skateboard Shop)

• Local Fastener Suppliers

• Local Electronics Suppliers

http://www.digikey.com/

• Local Machine Tool/Industrial Supply, (Occasionally unwelcome to hobbyists, but who knows?)

• Local Electronics Surplus Shop

You may want to check: http://www.repairfaq.org

• Local Jeweler's Supply Shop

(For all those tiny drill bits for the nozzles.)

• Model engineering clubs

http://www.sherline.com/clubs.htm