Latest update: October 2014. Thanks everyone for your comments!
Don’t spend any more time browsing desperately the internetz to find parts for your RepRap, Arduino kits or local sensors and PCBs distributors for your new project. I put together this worldwide list of online stores selling open source hardware. There is a big chance your country is in it and that you will finally find your favourite local online store to get open source electronics, robotics, parts, kits, materials and supplies for your hardware projects.
Leave a comment below the post if you own an online store that is not in the list or if you know a great online resource that should be in it.
A world map made of old motherboards ©Susan Stockwell 2012. Photo Syd Sheldon. (original)
North America
Detail of Susan Stockwell’s map. ©Susan Stockwell 2012
Canada
a2aPrinter: RepRap 3D printers
eckertech: RepRap parts and printers
United States
AME – After Midnight Engineering
Cooking Hacks. Catalog of open hardware products and possibility of on-demand products.
Dangerous Prototypes is an open source hardware company releasing a new project every month. Parts are then sold on Seeed Studio, but you can also find some of them through distributors.
Electric Stitches. Specialized in e-textiles
eMakerShop: RepRap shop
Evil Mad Science creates and sells open hardware kits and parts for world domination since 2007.
HobbyEngineering : science & engineering toys for education
HotEnds: RepRap hot ends supplier
LiquidWare. Engineering company selling open hardware products, with a focus on Android, sensors and Arduino environments.
Little Bits is an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping and play. Many fun kits and parts available in the online store.
Lulzbot: RepRap 3D printer
MakerGear: RepRap shop
Maker Shed is the online hardware store of MAKE Magazine. A cool place to find all kind of kits, parts, toys, books, robots, wearables and goodies.
MendBot Shop: RepRap parts
Nedocon. Makes boards and kits. Incorporated in NYC, NY.
Parallax. Creators of the BASIC stamp.
The Future is 3D: RepRap parts
Robosprout: RepRap shop
SparkFun Electronics is the online retail store that sells +10 years around. Produce and distribute Open Electronics.
tindie. A fun store for people to sell their hardware creations. Learn more about tindie in this interview
XESS. Open source boards.
Willow Garage: Robots
Rasberry Pi. You can find the Rasberry Pi in these online stores: Element14, RS
Central and South America
Detail of Susan Stockwell’s map. ©Susan Stockwell 2012
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Columbia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Mexico
Panama
Peru
Uruguay
Europe
Detail of Susan Stockwell’s map. ©Susan Stockwell 2012
Austria
RepRap Austria: RepRap parts
Belarus
Belgium
Bulgaria
Olimex. Design and distribute printed circuit boards, sub-assemblies, and complete electronic products.
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Let-Elektronik. Danish online store for open hardware electronics.
Estonia
Finland
France
Evola is a French distributor for Arduino shields, Seeed Studio and SparkFun.
Hackable Devices. French makers of Open Hardware projects, Makerbot and educational open source electronics distributor.
PAOparts: RepRap shop
Snootlab is a French company and online store distributing Arduino-based hardware, Adafruit, SparkFun and TinkerKits products. Snootlab team also creates and sells its own Arduino shields.
Germany
2printbeta: RepRap printers
RepRapFab: RepRap shop
RepRap Source: RepRap shop
Watterott. German based oshw store, worldwide shipping.
Greece
Hungary
Italy
ac123dc: RepRap parts
Arduino store is the new online store of the Arduino project, selling all kind of Arduino shields, boards and accessories, tinkerkits, sensors and DIY books.
Open Picus. Italian company producing open hardware products and tools for the Web of Things
resco-research: RepRap shop
Latvia
Lithuania
The Netherlands
Mendel-parts: RepRap parts
SceneLight: specialized in hardware for theatres-related projects
xyzprinters: RepRap shop
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Skb-Kiparis Ltd: RepRap parts
Slovakia
Elektromodely. Open source electronic store based in Slovak Republic, focusing on parts for flying devices.
Slovenia
Spain
Ingenieria de Microsistemas Programados
Leap to 3D: RepRap parts
RepRapBCN: RepRap shop
Scotland
Sweden
Switzerland
Play-Zone. Switzerland based oshw online store.
Turkey
EMPATEK BILISIM SAN. TIC. LTD. S
Ukrainia
United Kingdom
RedWizard3D: RepRap shop
RepRapCentral: RepRap shop
RepRapKit: RepRap shop
RepRapPro: RepRap parts and more
Zeni Kinetic: 3D printing filament supplier
Asia/Pacific
Detail of Susan Stockwell’s map. ©Susan Stockwell 2012
Australia
3D Industries Australia: RepRap parts
3DStuffmaker: RepRap parts
Bilby CNC: RepRap parts
Create3D: RepRap parts
Bangladesh
Brunei
China
Seeed Studio. Open Hardware distributor company based in Shenzen, China. Design also its own products under the name of Bazaar.
Switch-Science (Japan?)
Hong Kong
Sharism is a small Hong-Kong based company distributing Milkymist and NanoNote.
India
Indonesia
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
New Zealand
Philippines
Singapore
Romscraj: RepRap parts
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
Middle East
Detail of Susan Stockwell’s map. ©Susan Stockwell 2012
Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Africa
Detail of Susan Stockwell’s map. ©Susan Stockwell 2012
Algeria
Egypt
Kenya
Nigeria
South Africa
Tunisia
Other useful resources:
You might also be interested to check Adafruit distributors list, Arduino distributors list, RepRap suppliers list and TheMakerMap.
This list of online open source hardware stores is brought to you by MakingSociety under the CC-by-SA license, which means that you can freely share, remix and make commercial use of this content as long as you attribute it to MakingSociety.com and keep the same license.
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Hi Mathilde, thanks for the list. In Spain, you can also add Ultra-lab http://ultra-lab.net, Bricogeek http://blog.bricogeek.com/ and Leap to 3d http://leapto3d.com/
Hi Fred,
Thanks for the links! I just updated the list.
Hello there,
Just a few words to introduce eMotion Tech first reprapshop in France, developper of the Prusa i3 Rework (the most famous on the net) and the µDelta .
Best regards
Bonjour and bienvenue,
Thanks for the info. What’s your website?
Hi Mathilde,
We are only in the market since January, but we are here for long and located in France. Our URL : http://www.imprimante3dfrance.com
We’d love to be part of the list…
Thanks in advance,
Fred
Salut Fred,
Thanks for the info. I added you to the list.
Are you in the Paris region? You might be interested by the 3D Printing meetup (if you don’t already know it) : http://www.meetup.com/3D-Printing-Paris-Meetup/
Good luck with your project!
Hi Mathilde!
Good job. In Spain, you can also add Reflexiona: http://www.reflexiona.biz/shop/
Hi,
Just added Reflexiona to the list, thanks for sharing the link.
The Spanish hardware scene seems very active! Any cool event going on soon?
Have a great day,
Mathilde
Hi Mathilde,
Thanks for your reply.
This event could be interesting: http://makerfairebilbao.com/
All the best,
//A.
Great! Added it to the Events page
Hi Mathilde,
I’m Phu from Vietnam, I open a website selling parts for car robots and some other electronics components.
http://machtudong.vn (machtudong)
Hope it be in the list for Vietnam.
Have a nice weekend.
Best regards,
Ngoc Phu
Hi Phu,
Thanks! I added Machtudong to the list.
Thanks for your reply
Hi Mathilde,
I’m from Tarragona, Spain. I’ve opened an open source hardware shop where I sell electronic components, Arduino, etc.
http://www.opiron.com
Nice week,
Anton
Hi Anton,
Awesome. I just added you to the list.
Thanks! Your website is amazing!
You totally made my day.
some of the open source hardware stores listed in india seem to be unoperational. among others like popular bhasha technologies e-store is not listed http://www.bhashatech.com
Thanks for your feedback. Couldn’t find the one that is not operational, which one is it? I added Bhashatech to the list.
Hi, I think most of the stores listed under Norway really belongs to Poland
Oops, thanks for noticing! Made the change
You forgot http://store.open-electronics.org/
(italy)
Added!
Any other missing store?
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Forgot TrinityLabs in the US ( reprap parts store )
Done!
For Japan you should add Sengoku: http://sengoku.co.jp/
Cool, Sengoku is now in the list.
AUSTRALIA – http://openlab.com.au (OpenLab)
Added. Thanks!
Hi,
nice work!
I have a shop that specializes in theater related stuff.. Dmx etc
scenelight.com scenlight.nl
Based in the netherlands..
Regards,
frank
Thanks, You’re now in the list. Any cool theatre project you want to share here?
My last project was driving a bunch of led lamps for a ballet performance (see my blog).
I’m currently working on a arduino leonardo compatible board with rf and dmx. Next month I’ll be in theatre with a musical production.. Completely driven by scenlight showcontrol software and hardware. 12 rf headsets controlled by my audioplug and the lighting is driven by my dmx interface board.
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Hi,
We also have a shop at http://www.openimpulse.com
We ship worldwide from China and we distribute all kind of modules and hard to find electronic parts. Our business is actually multinational 😀 (I’m Romanian and my business partner is Chinese).
Hi, we have RepRap specialized store in Indonesia at http://www.robori.com.
It’s really helpful to have you listed open source hardware stores around the globe, nice work!!
Don’t forget Qtechknow!
We sell open source electronics kits. http://www.qtechknow.com/
Nice List. Mouser Electronics (mouser.com) is also a world wide online store for some of the larger-name OSHW stuff like Arduino, Beagleboards, and several others. Mouser should be in US, UK, the whole of the EU, Japan, and China. (And probably more, but I am too lazy to look for it.)
Thanks for sharing this list. We also provide these services with free shipping worldwide. For more info visit iSusvision.com
Regards,
Ash Sayed
Visit http://www.electronicsrus.com.au (Australian online store) for all your opensource electronics needs. Electronics R Us
Hi,
your list lacks robotseed.com, a french company that made and sells the smoothieboard.
Regards.
http://www.usinainfo.com.br/ in Brazil
Thanks for sharing.
You have forgotten open source hydrabus.com in France distributed by seeedstudio
Hi, there’s Naylamp Mechatronics in Peru.
http://www.naylampmechatronics.com
Thanks!
This is a great list. You could also add Waytek Wire (www.waytekwire.com). They’ve been around since 1972 and are an online distributor of electronic components across the US.
Hi there! Another member of the Spanish army here!
Could you please add http://electronicatoribio.es/ for me? Thanks!
Excellent work!
Hi!
Kamami from Poland (kamami.pl) has just opened site in english for international customers at kamami.com, so please add it to your list!
best regards
http://www.robolinkmarket.com (TURKEY)
RobotDigg is glad to be in the list of China