{"id":233,"date":"2010-10-10T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T04:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2010-10-10T21:04:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T04:04:54","slug":"pilgrimage-to-gateway-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/10\/pilgrimage-to-gateway-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrimage to Gateway Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple weeks ago I headed out to St. Louis to attend Arch Reactor's<\/a><\/noindex> grand opening 2.0 and meet up with some friends in the Lou.\u00a0 I headed out a little early so I could hit up Gateway Electronics<\/a><\/noindex> before the open house.\u00a0 Several people had mentioned Gateway and it's awesomeness before, so I had to check it out for myself.\u00a0 I picked a good day to stop in, as they were celebrating their 50th anniversary.\u00a0 I was quite impressed with the wide array of stuff they offered and it was obvious that their focus was on the hobbyist market.\u00a0 They've got a decent array of general components in stock and a lot of prototyping stuff, project boxes, breakout boards, perf board, PCB etching and repair supplies.\u00a0 They also had a lot of old equipment including scopes, variacs, and used lab equipment, a huge collection of tubes, most in their original packaging, and a lot of surplus\/pulled parts.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I didn't have any projects on the table that I didn't already have the supplies for so I only ended up grabbing some components that I thought would be cool to include it some future projects.\u00a0 I picked up some single digit VFD tubes cheap, some industrial keypads, a cheap project box or two, some cheap linear pots, and one giant red illuminated push button.\u00a0 It's too bad there's not really any place like this in KC...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks ago I headed out to St. Louis to attend Arch Reactor's grand opening 2.0 and meet up with some friends in the Lou.\u00a0 I headed out a little early so I could hit up Gateway Electronics before the open house.\u00a0 Several people had mentioned Gateway and it's awesomeness before, so I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}