RUG/Boilerplate

• Nearest Neighboring RepRap User Groups

• Robot Hobby Clubs (including First Robotics Competitions)

• Geek Groups Meetups (keywords: artist-run center, artbot, barcamp, dorkbot, experimental media, ham radio, linux, arduino, blender, circuit bending, RC aircraft, rocketry, cnc, etc.)

This will require a few google searches, where you enter your town and one of the keywords above into the following string: "Your Town" keyword (meetup OR meeting OR group OR club OR society OR workshop OR hobby) [dorkbot.org] [www.arduino.cc]

[www.khs.se]

• Local/Nearest FabLab, Techshop, Community College with a Machine Shop that people can use?

• CNC Group Meetups on cnczone.com or otherwise

[www.google.ca]

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Local Shops may be better or worse than buying from online retailers. This depends on your local shopsand what you're getting. Stepper motors you'll want to get online, steel rod - perhaps not. Fasteners, it depends. You may want to check your yellow pages to look these up, as opposed to online.

• Local Steel Suppliers (e.g. Construction suppliers)

• Local Bearing Suppliers (Skateboard Shop)

• Local Fastener Suppliers

• Local Electronics Suppliers

• Local Machine Tool/Industrial Supply, (Occasionally unwelcome to hobbyists, but who knows?)

• Local Electronics Surplus Shop

You may want to check: [www.repairfaq.org]