Vendors#

Below are some of the vendors of robotic hardware, software, and related materials:

Robotics & Personal Electronics#

• Adafruit (US): personal electonics & robotics specialist
• Pimoroni (UK): personal electonics & robotics specialist
• RobotShop (Canada. US): robotics specialist

• Pollolu
• PiBorg
• PiJuice

Electronics#

• DigiKey (US) & DigiKey (NZ): electronics
• Jaycar (NZ): electronics

Other#

• Coastal Fasteners (Porirua, NZ): supplier of nuts, bolts, all manner of stainless coolness
• Mitre 10: whereas Bunnings have rather meagre pickings, Mitre 10 carry a pretty good line of stainless nuts and bolts
• Pete's Emporium: miscellaneous everything, including wheels, hardware, etc.
• Macplas: an Auckland supplier of pretty much any plastic you might need. I used clear polycarbonate and black delrin, ordered on the phone and it was here in a few days.
• Cactus Plastics in Petone. They don't sell some of the more unusual plastics like Delrin but if you just need perspex (acrylic) they've got it and they're nearby.