Propellers at ELFA DISTRELEC

Heater.

Our Scandinavian electronics distributor ELFA stocks Propeller micro controllers. However they hide the fact quite well.
Clicking through their WEB page links for microcontrollers or micro processors will not find an Propellers or even Parallax as an MCU manufacturer.
Oh no, the Props are burried away under these links:

Electronics & Automation > Embedded / Wireless / Education > Kits / Prototyping & Development Boards > Breadboards / Kits > Propeller Microcontrollers

Perhaps someone at Parallax could get ELFA to put the Props in the correct place.

Also ELFA gives almost no information on the Prop in their listing not even MIPS, RAM space, number of cores, or number of IO pins as they do for other MCU's. Anyone looking for an MCU, who did not know the Prop, would not think to buy one from that. Provided they managed to find it in the first place.

Tor

Yeah, they hide it somewhat. It's also possible to find the Parallax products via Manufacturer->P->Parallax which is quite a bit easier.

(However AFAIK ELFA's shipping is actually way more costly than shipping from the US via the lowest cost USPS price, so I would only order from Elfa if my workplace is ordering something from there in any case. Which happens often. Actually the ELFA price is slightly above the Parallax price w/USPS shipping.. plus ELFA shipping.. but I've seen worse from other European distributors. Provided I can hang my private shipments onto some company shipment and then only pay cost+VAT then I would find it acceptable.)

-Tor

Heater.

Ah yes, but anyone just scanning for a suitble MCU for a project would not stumble across the Propeller there. A lost sale.

Yep, ELFA are not so cheap. They were good for me as they had a store only a couple of km away from me in Helsinki where I could pick things up. Sadly that seems to have moved far north in Finland.

Ahle2

I've sent them an email about this issue one and a half year ago and I got this response: "we will have a look at this".
Nothing has happened since then !?!

After my mail they did change the information from "32 8 bit cores" to "8 32 bit cores" though.

msrobots

@Heater,

they moved Helsinki far up north? whoa.

still cp/m less...need to change that somehow...

Enjoy!

Mike

Heater.

msrobots,

Well spotted. There is a possible ambiguity in that paragraph.
I think Helsinki is far enough to the north already:)

Toby Seckshund

Perhaps they remain unsure as to the speed/ cog details because that far up into the frozen north, bits slow down. GB is cold enough, but at least it isn't absolute cold.