Interesting Find At Radio Shack

Publison

While doing a search at Radio Shack on Parallax products, I find a few more products have been added, including the S2 Robot:

http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=parallax&origkw=Parallax&sr=1

Of interest was the Schamartboard that has all the through hole devices soldered. Missing are the Propeller chip, EEPROM, XTAL and headers. Not a bad price for $14.99.



Then they have the same offering on ebay with free shipping:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12827795

But when you add up all the components needed to finish the project, the Parallax product comes out ahead:

http://www.parallax.com/StoreSearchResults/tabid/768/txtSearch/Schmartboard/List/0/SortField/4/ProductID/568/Default.aspx

Jim

erco

Convenience costs! The $hack is doing $ome $eriou$ markup on robots & robot accessories compared to Parallax:

Boebot Crawler Kit: $29 Parallax $39 Shack
Boebot Gripper Kit: $56 Parallax $70 Shack
BoeBot Tank Kit: $35 Parallax $45 Shack
S2 robot $130 Parallax $140 Shack

Be sure to stock up on their "bargain" $20 serial DB9 cables when you're shopping there!
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3964613&clickid=prod_cs