Micro Center & MIT Flea

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Micro Center
730 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139

Here is a quote from the Web site describing the store.

Since Micro Center opened our Cambridge store back in 1995, we’ve been providing the Boston area with an unmatched tech shopping experience and unrivaled selection. At Micro Center on Memorial Drive, we’re proud to offer the Boston and Cambridge community a huge selection of computers, Apple products, software, accessories and computer parts for building your own PC – over 25,000 items!

Check out the posters featuring computing pioneers, and look up their Wikipedia pages to find out about what they did.

Also, keep an eye out, it is not impossible that some of the folks gracing the walls might still be found wandering the isles.

Buy a Arduino and/or Raspberry Pi kit and have some fun with it.

Better yet, get some parts and build your own computer.

Swapfest: The Flea at MIT
36 Albany Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Here is a quote from the Web site describing the event.

The MIT Radio Society, in conjunction with the MIT UHF Repeater Association, the MIT Electronics Research Society, and the Harvard Wireless Club, sponsors a Swapfest on the third Sunday of each month, April through October. This is a place to buy, sell, and swap amateur radio, electronic, and computer equipment. Hams and non-hams alike are welcome.

It doesn’t do it justice, though. You have to go to understand it!

The Swapfest: The Flea at MIT Web site has dates and details.

LEARN

You can sometimes find “museum like” displays about old technologies like Telegraphs or the Enigma Machine.

READ

Swapfest Goes on Rain or Shine (Martin Rowe, EE Times)
MIT Flea Market: All Things Nerdly (NBC News)
MIT’s Flea Market Specializes in Rare, Obscure Electronics (Collin Binkley, Phys.org)

Wander around, buy a few things, strike up some conversations …

… but beware, you never know where it might lead 😉