- Fri Feb 06, 2015 8:47 pm
#179526
Guys..
We all make fun of Radio Shack (I myself often call it Rat Shack).. but we don't want to lose this valuable, mainstay of Maker/hacker/tinkerer electronics! Where else can you go on a weekend to snag some solder.. a copper board and an cadmium sulfide cell? I ask you! (now you can even get Arduinos!.. or.. could...)
When I heard that Sprint was going to buy 1/2 the stores and make Sprintstores.. that just added insult to injury!
How much is needed to rescue the remaining stores?
How much then would it be to do a massive restocking (existing electronics and radio gear) and add Sparkfun (bulk Chinese orders) to Make them into "Maker Shacks"?
For Branding.. I would keep the "Shack" part of the name... But Spark Fun could do an infinite better job of running a nation of Shacks than RS ever could...
What say you? I know that tens of thousands of geeks would get behind this type of effort..
Save the Shack! Save the World!
Save the Shack!
Save the Shack!
Tweeks
We all make fun of Radio Shack (I myself often call it Rat Shack).. but we don't want to lose this valuable, mainstay of Maker/hacker/tinkerer electronics! Where else can you go on a weekend to snag some solder.. a copper board and an cadmium sulfide cell? I ask you! (now you can even get Arduinos!.. or.. could...)
When I heard that Sprint was going to buy 1/2 the stores and make Sprintstores.. that just added insult to injury!
How much is needed to rescue the remaining stores?
How much then would it be to do a massive restocking (existing electronics and radio gear) and add Sparkfun (bulk Chinese orders) to Make them into "Maker Shacks"?
For Branding.. I would keep the "Shack" part of the name... But Spark Fun could do an infinite better job of running a nation of Shacks than RS ever could...
What say you? I know that tens of thousands of geeks would get behind this type of effort..
Save the Shack! Save the World!
Save the Shack!
Save the Shack!
Tweeks