Cool Junk

Places to Find Cool Junk:

This is meant for physical tidbits... there is another page for Electronics (Including Surplus)

 

Please include link URLs so that this page can be printed.

 

 

Stanford's Joint Program in Design used to maintain a webpage of places to get stuff in the Bay Area.

The original site is down, but the page can still be found on the wayback machine here.

 

 

Online

• American Science and Surplus - http://www.sciplus.com/
• Polarized Film, best prices, good educational and art links - http://polarization.com/
• Fabric and amazingly inexpensive wool - http://www.thewoolconnection.com/

 

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East Bay

• Urban Ore - http://urbanore.ypguides.net
• East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse - http://www.creativereuse.org/

 

 

San Francisco

• Building Resources - http://www.buildingresources.org
• Goodwill - http://sfgoodwill.org/  They sell cheap electronics online, TONS of power adapters & other stuff at the flagship store, Mission & Van Ness
• Goodwill As-Is Store - http://www.yelp.com/biz/goodwill-as-is-store-san-francisco Auctions for electronics. Auctions for housewares. Cheap textiles. Buy a box full of VCRs or 50 cent t-shirts.
• Fabric Outlet - http://www.yelp.com/biz/fabric-outlet-san-francisco Best fabric selection and prices in the Bay Area
• Craig's List - Free Stuff - http://sfbay.craigslist.org/zip/
• Scrap - http://www.scrap-sf.org/ - Lots of random scrap, pretty cheap.  A great place to pick up supplies and surplus. 

 

 

Silicon Valley

• RAFT - http://www.raft.net/  - for teachers

 

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Global

• Monroe Engineering - http://www.monroeengineering.com