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Shopping
We have made a Maker's Guide Map for Japan. It has points of interest including:
- Electronics Shops
- Crafting
- Arcade, Retro Gaming & computers
- Modern Computing
- Tourism
- Cultural Craft tourism
- Maker Spaces and Co-working
- Game Bars
- Other
Monotaro is a great online hardware store. It could be compared to McMaster-Carr, but less easy to navigate (McMaster is almost entirely picture card driven. It is teh awesomes).
Here are some select items, relevant to Tokyo HackerSpace and members, broken into categories which this author thinks are useful. Some of these are downright hints to our members to buy and donate them to the space. ;)
- our jig saw
- Replacement flux core welding wire
- Basic welding gloves
- Safety glasses and Goggles
- Auto-darkening welding helmet
- Helmet with flip up view window
- Replacement helmet head straps
- Our welder, in case you are wondering
Building a machine? Need steel for a welding course, table or project? Need extruded aluminum? Need gears, chains and pullys?
Teppan-Ichiba sells direct over the internet
http://shop.smartdiys.com/ sells lots of build materials in Japan, including Openbuilds V-slot extruded aluminum:
The following shops sell direct, and take internet orders
Monotaro also has a wide selection of extrusion, as well as all the other parts:
These parts can be found in a few shops in Akihabara (Sengoku), as well as online.
RS carries a good chunk of the POWERS small mechanical inventory:
Kaneyoshidesu can process all your sheet-metal needs, including:
- Laser cutting
- Bending
- Welding and surface treatments
They can process a variety of materials as well (up to 30mm):
- Iron
- Stainless steel
- Aluminum
- Copper
- Brass
- Titanium
- Acrylic
- Wood
- Paper / cardstock
Cutpla.com provides a wide variety of plastics services and materials:
- Plate and flat bar
- Round Bar
- Processing (manufacturing of parts)
They offer a wide variety of plastics
- Nylon
- Duracon
- Bakelite
- Polycarbonate
- UHMD Polyethylene
- PPEK
- PPS
- Teflon (PTFE)
- PVC
- Acrylic
- PET
- Polyethylene
- Polypropylene
- ABS
- Craft in Ogikubo See our Maker's Guide Map under the crafting section for more leathercraft shops.
Seaforce sells a variety of jewelry and crafting tools including ultrasonic cleaners and laser cutters.
- Nippori Fabric Town has a whole street of fabric and crafts shops. See our Maker's Guide Map under the crafting section.
THS also has some electronics inventory that you can have in exchange for a donation. See this wiki page
- RT Robotics (online only)
- Kondo Robotics
- Kondo Robotics webstore
- Robot Shop Technologia Online and in Akihabara