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SCI.ELECTRONICS.DESIGN
SCI.ELECTRONICS.BASICS
SCI.ELECTRONICS.REPAIR
COMP.CAD.CADENCE
ALT.FOLKLORE.COMPUTERS
SCI.PHYSICS
SCI.PHYSICS.RESEARCH
SCI.PHYSICS.ELECTROMAG

SCI.CHEM

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ALT.ENERGY.HOMEPOWER
ALT.SOLAR.PHOTOVOLTAIC
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ALT.INVENTORS
MISC.INT-PROPERTY
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SCI, ALT.SCI, ALT.ENERGY, ALT.COMP, COMP

High Volts

Forum, Tesla Experimental
TESLA listserv for advanced hobbyists "pupman"
.HV Community
HV list at pumpman
usa-tesla (old Intl Tesla Soc. list)
Tesla-fy
ALT.ENERGY.HIGH-VOLTAGE news

Science News

News resources

Weblogs

Other Peoples' Electronics Hotlists

Hacked Gagets
Hackaday-yyyy
Evil Mad Scientist
DIHappy
Tech Underground
Cooltools
Make: Electronics
ePanorama, main hobby electronics resource
Alex's Tutorials links (mirror)
EPE magazine archive
Don Lancaster's Hotlinks
Sam Goldwasser's bookmarks
Link Collection from KITSRUS/DIY ELECTRONICS
Link collection from Electronix Express
U. Alberta Schmaus' link collection
Pat J's Elect/Radio page
U. Nebraska EE
Sites linking to this page (google link search)
Sites linking to this page (altavista link search) and more

Webrings

INTERESTING PROJECTS at other sites

Proj. Archives
- Seattle SRS
- Gadget Freak, article archive at Design News
- Popular Electronics, some old cover stories, jpeg, 1955-1975
- EPE magazine archive
DIY Sidescan sonar
Parametric loudspeaker kit, and another, 'Hypersound' ultrasonic beam
Softrock , simple software radio
DIY 'Neurophone bizarre device
Non-semiconductor regen radio receiver (pdf)
Chaos generator
Dekatron plasma spin
Thermo-radio thermopile supply
Oscilloscope TV, and driving scope CRTs
Imaging radar
Tindall's Helmholtz Levitator and more
CRT in belljar teralab, also more
TEA Nitrogen lasers
6VS-1 tube X-ray photos, L. Wright also DanyK's 6BC-1
Coilgun projectile speedometer
Hand-made vacuum tubes (.fr, goog transl)
'Natural radio" VLF circuits
$10 Oscilloscope dual trace, 10bit AD
NE-2 Geiger Counter, and schem.
Fluorescent Tubes geiger counter & cosmic ray telescope
T.E.N.S. Transcutaneous neural stimulator schematic tens
Little Bitty Radio Telescope (pdf), via
Crabfu RC Steam bots
Triode tube built by Ham (video)
Build a mini CRT tube
"Plasma diode" microwave sensor and other H. Stockman articles
Hacking the Info-globe POV display
Analog music synth circuits
Locate avalanche victims
Charge yourself up, then zap people.
Electronics-lab.com: science projects
Kathode-ray devices
Physics Antiques Earlytech
Radio vision: doppler RDF
Pulsing your brain, TMS
Piezo transformer and more
CRT pocket watch, 1" tube
Vacuum tube experiments
EEG Electroencephlograph kit
Fun with ion chambers (geiger counters)
Piezo-acoustic Gyroscope with piezo-beepers
Sense radar pulses with a dual op-amp
Plasma Tweeter
Poor Man's Spectrum Analyzer (kit)
STM microscope based on piezo beepers
Dielectric amplifier?
Mechanical video
Solar cell kit photosynthesis proton nano-pump
$10 thermal imager, carbon on plastic film
Wave-cancelling headphones
Battery desulfonator
Induction motor as generator! cool!
Proton Precession Magnetometer and another and others
Homebrew X-ray, and another
Insert magnet under skin, also Ewww!

Various Other Hobbyist Sites

Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair
ePanorama, main hobby electronics resource
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danyk666, god of CZ High Voltage, see YT vids
The Tube Museum
vk2zay's hobbies, hi-volt and fire
Magic Eye Tube Gallery (it's back! Nov 2007)
Big Clive's Things to make and do
Seiichi Inoue: Hobby Electronics
Museum of Retro Technology
Techlib
Wind/Solar homebrew
Phil Hobbs' electro optics
Crystal radios? How 'bout crystal TRANSMITTERS:
- Galvanized tunnel diodeosc, and more
- Crystadyne
Halloween Projects
LED Museum
Mechanical television (NBTV) , see gallery , & build your own
Baird Mechanical Television , w/wax recordings
ExB Waves
Amateur Microwave
SCRATCHBUILT COMPUTERS (TTL chips, etc.)
- NANDputer YT vid
- MyCPU
- Relay-based CPU
- all-transistor CPU (not TTL, but NPN transistors!)
- Relay Computer
- Don S. TTL
- Design your own CPU (Circuit Cellar)
- Jack Dollhausen
- MAGIC 1, homebrewcpu.com
- Victor's 4-bit
- Tim B's 4-bit TTL computer
- Dave B's SIMPLEX-III
- FPGA-CPU News build your own CPU
- Apollo Guidance Computer, LS TTL chips
- M. Sokos' scratchbuilt computers
- TTL computer kit (in German)
- Mechanical computation w/LEGOs
- More: homebrewcpu.com
Vacuum Tube Page
T. Boyd's page, simple projects w/PC
A. Horden's page
Experimenters Corner, Ham & science
X-tal radios
Induction motor as generator! cool!
CyberWorkshop (Japan)
Mike's Electric Stuff
Don Klipstein's hobbyist site (LED stuff!)
Engdahl's Electronics Info Page
Jerry Russell's circuits archive
RSW's Faq Collection , see INDEX too
Electronics Onramp
Altair.org, microwave and VLF radio projects, tesla coils
Microwave Oven Experiments
Xtal-set Society
Weather circuits
FAQ: Unusual Diodes
Hobbyist LASER info (excellent!)
Raymond's ELECTRONICS 2000
Bob Blick's Electr. Projects
Amateur Laser Constructors
Electronics for Beginners
Tesla Page, coil project info
Circuit Cellar (Home controls)
Low-Cost Electronic Projects
Fluxgate Magnetometer
Halloween Hobbyists

Misc. Electronics Info.

PEASE PORRIDGE (Bob Pease' columns)
Analog App Notes from Lin Tech
Malvino's Intuitive Edge
Electronics Repair FAQ
Repair your VCR
FAQ for ALT.COMP.HARDWARE.HOMEBUILT
Jerry Russell's circuits archive
Darden's Car battery FAQ
P. Mathews' LED FAQ
Steve's Workbench(Radio Shack)
Wenzel Inc.'s PDF circuit library
IR Comm resources
sci.electronics news FAQ (huge, don't miss it!)

Circuits Archives, Shematics Archives

FC CirKIT
delabs PDF/PNG archive
Techlib Archive
Electronics-lab (Greece)
Circuit Exchange Intl
Bob Blick's projects
TerryPin's GIF schematics
Free circuits
200 Transistor circ
U. Wash. EE circuits archive
U. Alberta Cookbook Archive (via FTP)
Headphones projects anti-noise, electrostatic...
U. Guelph Circuit Land
T. Engdahls Circuits Collection
Sam Goldwasser's Schematics
pdf Hobby Circuits from Imagineering Online
Electronics Zone
Crystal circuits & tutorials (Wenzel Assc.)
Arron C's circuits
RSWs circuit archive (FTP site)
4QD's Schematics & Lectures
eklektix Circuits
Hardware Book connector pinout ref, circuits

Other circuits linkfarms

Electronics Design Software (free)

Indexes/Archives of Freeware:
- SysInternals LINK FIXED: Windows admin utilites (free)
- Web EE
- G4FGQ memorial rf freeware
- Terry P. Schem/PCB sw links
- freecad.com CAD/CAE freeware archive
- Tech Systems spice/PCB/schem
- Switchercad, filtercad from Lin. Technology Inc.
- electronics-tutorials.com CAD downloads
- Scilab math/sci, FFT etc.
- Other free EM code, and more
- Finite Element Resources
- Greg, rf cascade
PCB freeware
- Bay Area Circuits PCB creator, fab service
- Eagle Lite
- ExpressPCB buy PCBs
- PCB Creator
- GEDA pcb
- PCB Artist Adv. Circ.
- pad2pad, buy PCBs
- pcb123 buy pcbs
- WinQcad
- Merlin PCB
- Cadint PCB
Circuit simulators
- Orcad PSPICE 9.1 Student vers
- LTspice Lin. Tech & tutorials
- 5-spice shareware
- Circuit Const Kit (electricity edu)
- Falstad's DIY Circuit Applet (electricity edu)
- ngSpice open source
- TINA design suite demo version
- CircuitLogix Student vers 90-day
- Digital Works simulator (shareware)
Designworks Lite (schematics)
Protel free trial
NuHertz filter design
Free Student Version of the Quickfield magnetic/electrostatic/thermal simulator
XMDS math simulator
FEMM finite element magnetics
Sonnet Lite for PCB rf reflections
ACD/Chemsketch molecular modeling (free to schools)
3D e-field cad
CFD fluid dynamics

FPGA, VHDL stuff

Electricity/Electronics Education

Bill B's Electricity Articles
NCSU electronics tutorials
101 Science: Electronics
Free Video Lectures links
All About Circuits online textbook series
LED Museum
Satcure Hobbyist Turorials
Concise electronics for geeks
Electronics for Beginners , and Intermediate
Choosing Capacitors
I-FX Electronics (good beginner's site)
Electronics-tutorials.com
Column: electronics thermal Q & A
Piezo tutorials
Electricity physics
Alexs Tutorials links
Engdahl's Electronics Basics
Mark Sokos' Electronics Tutorials
RSWs ftp site: Electronics Tutorials
Iquanalabs Tutorials: Beginner/Intermed/Adv
Electronics Workshop Encyclopedia, Tutorials
Basic Electronics tutorial (download)
Electronics for Beginners
ELECTRONICS 2000, see "Basic Electronics I/II/III"
Electricity/electronics training software
Doctron example circuits
Electricty/Electronics Teaching Resources
Electronics Tutorials from Iguana Labs
embeddedsystems tutorials
OP AMP TUTORIALS
- Op-amps for audio
- NCSU ECE480 class: op-amps
- Basic Electr. III
- Mark S. Tutorials: op amp
- Intermed. Electr.

USA Magazines

Nuts & Volts Magazine (excellent for beginners)
Circuit Cellar Ink Magazine (Adv. projects, home automation)
Popular Electronics, some old cover stories 1955-1975
Imagineering Magazine Online, from D.A. Johnson
INT'L
Everyday Practical Electronics (UK)
Elektor Magazine (UK)
Silicon Chip (Aust.)
Saber Eletr?ica (Brazil)
Electronics Australia

Professional Mags

Robotics

Electronics suppliers/stores

BILLB NEAT JUNK & Surplus mail-order catalogs for sci/electronics hobbyists.
SURPLUS SUPPLIERS electronics parts
LEDS, high power & UV
Surplus Sales, HV connectors, also MHV
Ebay auctions: Electronic Parts
Phil's large MAIL ORDER list
Commercial & surplus links from Experimenter's Corner
Ultraviolet Flashlights
Hyper-sensitive magnetometer chips, Speake & co.
EIO Surplus items, online hobbyist forums
Electronics Workbench design/sim SW
Am. Science & Surplus (formerly Jerryco)
Mondo-tronics Robot Store
Surplus equpt., vac, lasers
Electronics equipment swap site
Suppliers list from The BellJar

Major IC/Semi Suppliers

AVNET | ALLIED | DIGIKEY | FUTURE | H&R | MOUSER | NEWARK | NUHORIZONS

- Texas Inst.
- National
- Motorola
- Analog Devices
Allegro (hall effect)
Altera (FPGA)
Agilent/HP
Analog Devices
Atmel (CPUs)
Exar
Fairchild
Infineon/Siemens
International Rect.
Intersil/Harris
Linear Tech
Maxim/Dallas
Microchip PIC
Motorola
National
NEC
NTE (replacement semis)
Philips
Sharp
ST/SGS-Thompson
Texas Inst.
Toshiba
Xilinx (FPGAs)

Printed Circuit Board Suppliers PC Fab

OSH Park communal purchasing
PCB Cart
You PCB
Bay Area Circuits PCB creator, fab service
Express Pcb Quick-turn PCBs, free CAD sw
PCB Express Quick-turn PCBs by mail
PCB Pro More quick-turn PCBs by mail
CustomCircuitBoards even more
Onboardcircuits
PNP-BLUE transfer film (make PCBs at home)
EZ Route PCB
Dyna Art TTS (make PCBs, the white decal stuff)
Toner Transfer tutorial
The PCB FAQ

Kits

Sparkfun Geiger board or alpha geiger tube
Tiny Geiger Ctr Kit w/Alpha window, Chaney Elec
Geiger Counter Kit (w/alpha window!) or just the GM Tube alone.
Electronikit.com
Cana Kit
Electronic Goldmine
Hobbytron science kits, electronics, rob, RC
Fascinating Elect. Inc.
Ramsey Electronics
DIY Electronics, 110 Kits
Solarbotics kits & plans
Electronix Express components, kits, online parts catalog
Kitz (Aus.)
LNS Kits (weird stuff!)
Lucid Technologies (68705 uP kits)

Some Great Books:

Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius a beginners' electronics course (new 2005) see animations , also forum

Op Amp Applications Handbook (pdf)
Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks, new 2004
Analog circuit Design: art, science, and personalities
High Voltage Power Supplies (pdf)
Op Amps For Everyone (entire free book, 2 meg .pdf)
Practical Electronics for Inventors
The Art of Assembly Lang. Programming (online book)
There Are No Electrons
Bebop to the Boolean Boogie
The Art of Electronics, also see Horowitz&Hill site (ICs, intermediate electronics)
Philbrick Archive big primordial analog resource
Trinkaus TESLA COIL (beginners)
The Art of Unix Programming
Don't miss Lindsay Publications
FORREST MIMS:
- Getting Started in Electronics (used only)
- Engineer's Notebook
- Circuit Scrapbook
- Engineer's Notebooks (several, Radio Shack)
GORDON MCCOMB
- Gageteer's Goldmine
- Robot Builder's Bonanza
- The Laser Cookbook
WALTER JUNG:
- IC Timer Cookbook
- Op Amp Cookbook
DON LANCASTER:
- CMOS Cookbook
- TTL Cookbook
- Active Filter Cookbook
AMAZON: lists
- Self-taught electronics
- Beginning Robotics
- Combat robotics

Embedded Processors

Sparkfun $30 PIC starter kits, cameras, accelerom, cellphone
Rabbit Semi, $39 (more advanced than Stamp)
Handy Cricket $59
PIC vs. Stamp vs. OOPIC
Embeddedsystems.org
OOPIC $25
Teleo, controlled from Flash
PIC Library (Don Lancaster)
Parallax (Basic Stamp $29)
Olimex bare PCBs, PIC, AVR, ARM, etc.
Atmel AVR home page
Micromint (Pic stic)
Gumstix Linux boards, bluetooth $110
Microchip Inc. (PIC ICs)
D. Tait's PIC resources
Iguana Labs
The EE Shop
Eric's PIC page
Circuit World
EMBEDDED Webring
COMP.ARCH.EMBEDDED

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