Electronic market selling Arduinos?

[Jakob Fries]

Hi guys,

I am visiting Shanghai for a few days and would like to shop for some electronics while here.

I am looking for electronics on a "hobby level", meaning breadboards, arduinos, sensors etc.

I have visited some of the markets on the electronics market map http://xinchejian.com/tag/electronic-market/, but they have been either too high level (selling phones, laptops) or too low level (selling transistors, discrete TTL logic etc). The ones I have visited are Modern Electronic City, Metro City and Shanghai Seg Electron Market.

Could you point out what market might be good fit for what I am looking for? Thanks.

Jakob

[nihaopaul]

For arduino you will be hard pressed to find them in stores. Xinchejian stocks them and if you want a large order we can get a fast delivery of them from dfrobot. The markets are good for sensors and other components.

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[Jakob Fries]

Unfortunately I dont have the time to wait for shipping. Is there any one or two markets you would recommend in particular for finding sensors?
Thanks

[Lutz Michaelis]

Hi Jakob,

just let us know what you need and we will try to get it. There is no shipping time since almost everythingl is available in Shanghai.

~Lutz

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Jakob Fries <jakob...@gmail.com> wrote:

Unfortunately I dont have the time to wait for shipping. Is there any one or two markets you would recommend in particular for finding sensors?
Thanks

[Jakob Fries]

To be honest what I am mostly interested in is to browse a good sized market randomly to see if I can find something interesting for a good price.

Some specific sensors I am looking for are a GPS module, air pressure sensor and ultrasonic range finder.

Thanks

[Paul Adams]

aww that sucks dude, http://taobao.com is our bestest friend evar!

hit the electronics all on beijing dong lu near hai lun lu, it's about 4
floors of stuff above floor 3 it's not worth going up, but its a jungle
in there, the ultrasonics can be found near the escalator to go down on
the right hand side on the 1st floor (4pins) for GPS hit a few stores on
the 2nd floor (take a product number, nothing will be assembled into a
final product) and then for the air pressure sensor the bmp05? is great
for 1m accuracy just go with a shopping list.

fyi i havn't found a good GPS unit at a low price. it's actually cheaper
to buy am android phone with dual/quadcore, wifi, 3g, screen, battery,
GPS.. all that stuff than a GPS unit! but go with product numbers and
you'll find the parts you need.

additionally look for the sharp IR sensors, these are much more accurate
than the U/S you will find, i purchased the good u/s from dfrobot and
they "just work" where as the cheapies have false positives/block/refuse
to work on a busy IC bus.

YMMV

[Jakob Fries]

Awesome, thanks Paul!

I can't find the intersection you mention though. It seems like beijing east road (北京东路) and hailun lu (海伦路) do not cross and are not even that close to eachother.

Jakob

[nihaopaul]

Sorry wrong road. Here you go.. Huangpu, Shanghai, China, 200001, 668号 Beijing East Rd
http://goo.gl/maps/u6W2I