You
may skip this post if you’re not a resident of India
Microcontrollers such as AVR, PIC from Atmel and Microchip are fast becoming
the choice of hobbyist for their projects. Now instead of many conventional
ICs hobbyists are rather using a single MCU (MicroController Unit) for their
projects due to many advantages they have.
In the recent years MCUs have become cheap too. Now you may easily get
a fully functional MCU from Atmel at under Rs. 70!
Sadly that is only one dimension of its popularity if you don’t reside
in those big cities, leaving some big cities MCUs are not that easily available
let alone the remote areas. There are many resellers but they either deal in
large quantities or at high prices both not being suitable for average hobbyists.
Seeing this, my brother has come up with a new Online
Electronics Hobby Shop for average hobbyists. He has planned
to make available everything (Development Boards, MCUs, LCD Displays, Programmers,
and Controller Chips etc) which are otherwise not easily available to everyone.
The site is still in its infancy (Launched on 8th March 2008) so you
shouldn’t expect everything to be available right now.
At present Microcontrollers,
USB
Programmers, Displays
etc. are available.
