Tokyo Ahihabara video tour - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2010, 09:51:19 am
content: http://www.tokyohackerspace.org/akihabara/Warning - contains extreme geek porn!

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2010, 10:02:56 am
content: repentance!

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2010, 10:36:33 am
content: shafri .. all that text panel at the right, they are links of videos , start clicking on them one by one ..Amazing stuff , thanks for the link..

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2010, 10:49:23 am
content: Oh my God , they have in the shop of the enclosures , an mini CNC to make holes on it , or even yet printers that prints the labels for the front panel in silk ....Wow ... at list !!

author: Jon Chandler
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2010, 11:45:04 am
content: That enclosure place is incredible! So many different kinds of enclosures all in one place that I can't even find in catalogs. And machining them right there is brilliant!That district must have more parts than Digikey, all in one place. A shopping spree there would be mind blowing.

author: kaptain_zero
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2010, 11:50:20 pm
content: PLEASE.... Someone.... Anyone... from this part of the world........ Please adopt me as your long lost and remarkably old son and take me home!!!!!By the way, am I the only one who noticed this fellow walking past all the neat Amateur radio gear up on top of the cabinets in the first video, without stopping to even look at it, and then make some snarky remark about "old" tubes?!?!? Hey, if it works, without glowing in the dark, and it's not capable of doing double duty as a space heater...... how can it be electronic?RegardsChristian

author: Zad
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2010, 02:29:28 am
content: Digi Key is a surprisingly small building. Okay, 600x325ft isn't exactly "small" by most standards, how they get all those product lines in there I don't know. Despite Thief River Falls being a small town, Digi Key aren't even the biggest company on the block!

author: Jon Chandler
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2010, 02:43:42 am
content: Really? Digikey is that small? Amazing.

author: PetrosA
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2010, 04:20:45 am
content: This is beyond porn. Porn's in your head - this stuff is real.I can't watch anymore... too painful... feeling like a little boy again...must get tons of cash and go... Dad, can you loan me 1000 weeks of allowance now?

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2010, 02:25:59 pm
content: Quote from: PetrosA on September 27, 2010, 04:20:45 amNop

author: quantumfall
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2010, 08:37:58 pm
content: Wow, I would love to have all that choice, the uk is devoid of anything like this , in fact we have nothing now. A few online shops with prices that are high really.The reason is that property costs and tax costs along with insurance, money costs not to forget leaching legal costs have killed the private shop.

author: David
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2010, 08:56:38 pm
content: That is most certainly PURE PORN! Imagine designing your next project and "popping to the shops" to pick the parts up as if they were milk and bread!

author: djsb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2010, 09:18:24 pm
content: ?

author: quantumfall
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2010, 09:21:43 pm
content: Milk and bread, LOL these parts and the freedom to use them are gone in the UK. Unless you can prove you are qualified to use them then you are ****** .

author: DavidDLC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2010, 09:28:35 pm
content: Somebody make a video of the Electronic market in Beijing with it's 4 floors of pure excitement !!!!That will be another porn movie to watch and enjoy.

author: djsb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2010, 09:36:17 pm
content: There is probably something similar in china. Read somewhere there was a place you could all the schematics/service manuals for whatever you wanted.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 29, 2010, 08:12:57 am
content: Quote from: quantumfall on September 28, 2010, 09:21:43 pmHuh? What on earth are you talking about?

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 29, 2010, 09:51:30 am
content: Quote from: DavidDLC on September 28, 2010, 09:28:35 pmi think i know who is the "somebody". maybe somebody who went to China and asked what to buy therecant wait the "porn" movie!

author: david77
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 29, 2010, 01:09:11 pm
content: GOD ALMIGHTY!Why was I born in Europe?That Ahihabara place is absolutely awesome. Have you seen how neatly they arange all their stuff?At first I didn't realise this was an electronics shop...There used to be a few streets in Munich near the station where one small electronics shop was nextto the other. On a very small area there used to be about 20-25 different electronics/computer shopswhere you could get everything and spend hours looking. Now there's one or two left.That enclosure place was great. I need that here. Now! Or at least I need my own CNC machine and alaser marking machine...Hm, I always wanted to visit Japan. Now it seems I need to go there with lots of money and emptysuitcases.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 29, 2010, 02:55:36 pm
content: Quote from: david77 on September 29, 2010, 01:09:11 pmThis applies to EVERYTHING in Japan.BTW another unmissable Tokyo store is Tokyo Hands - the ultimate hardware store.

author: quantumfall
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 30, 2010, 01:36:27 am
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on September 29, 2010, 08:12:57 amSorry its a bit of a rant which was in my head and not very well expressed.I was quoting a post before about just being able to go out and get parts like a quick nip to the shops for milk and bread.as if its just an everyday thing in Japan to use electronic parts in the home.The bit about not being able to use stuff is because in the UK now, in the home as "Part P of the building regulations" is so strict, that you can not even install an led light in your home yourself if its a new circuit. Anything that requires more the 0.3 Volts I think without getting planning permission and a test by a "Competent Person" that means someone who is accredited by a body like the NICEIC etc. Even running a network cat 5 cable is illegal for me to do without permission now. Model railway people are not allowed technically to install fixed model lights to a garden railway if over 0.3 volts, they could be a professor of electrical engineering but would not be deemed capable without accreditation from an approved body.Even an electrician who works for an accredited company during the day is not allowed to do his own work, even wire his own house without getting planning permission and an inspection by an accredited person, the work has to be approved by the local building inspector before work starts.Very competent people are being forced to pay money just to do what they are capable of doing and have worked an Apprenticeship and many years in industry are now unable to do the simplest of home electrics.without permission. Thats what a bit of the mad rant was about.Apologies to everyone for the disjointed post.One Electrician in Bristol UK was refused his NICEIC approval and membership because he had not done any new build house wiring although a competent electrician who had been doing small works and repairs for years. Thats the jist of it, it a while since I read about it now.I know one electrician who told me that a young trainee from the planning dept asked one of his firms Electricians if he had all the qualifications to do the job who had been a professional electrician for 30 plus years and said he was not sure if he should be doing the work he was doing. When asked what qualifications he had the young man from the local building /planning dept said he had no qualifications but was a trainee, yet he wanted the man to stop work. This is a man with years of practical knowledge and a time served apprentice ship behind him. I know that the rule have been tightened to stop bad practice, but in most cases its the amateur who will take no notice of the regulations and do bad work, while the good pro people have to pay for accreditation at no small cost.Apologies for the long post, I've not looked at any new rules for a while and I may be wrong with the exact details that apply now in the UK but I'm reasonably sure that its mostly as I say.

author: Hypernova
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 30, 2010, 01:46:25 am
content: That is... incredibly fucked upin the long term that would ruin the hobby industry and create brain drain.