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*[http://www.csgnetwork.com/ne555timer2calc.html 555 Timer Calculator] | *[http://www.csgnetwork.com/ne555timer2calc.html 555 Timer Calculator] | ||
*[http://www.freepcb.com/ Free PCB Layout Program] | *[http://www.freepcb.com/ Free PCB Layout Program] | ||
==PCBs== | |||
*[https://jlcpcb.com/ JLC PCB] | |||
*[https://oshpark.com/ OSH Park] | |||
*[https://www.4pcb.com/pcb-order-options.html 4PCB] | |||
*[https://www.expresspcb.com Express PCB] | |||
==Web Stores== | ==Web Stores== | ||
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*[https://shop.pimoroni.com Pimoroni] - British shop for Raspberry Pi | *[https://shop.pimoroni.com Pimoroni] - British shop for Raspberry Pi | ||
*[https://thepihut.com/ Pi Hut] - UK shop for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit | *[https://thepihut.com/ Pi Hut] - UK shop for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit | ||
=CNC Routing and Milling= | =CNC Routing and Milling= | ||
Revision as of 09:58, 16 February 2019
Wood Working
Utilities
Metal
Places to buy metal
- Tuner Steel Co - West Bridgewater, MA
- Mill Metals - Manchester, NH
- Metal Supermarkets - Boston, MA (Mark Y goes there sometimes)
- Metals Depot - Online
- Online Metals - Online
- Speedy Metals
Cutting and Machining services
- Alliant Metals - Hampstead, NH (Stainless mainly, cutting services)
- North East Cutting Die - Portsmouth, NH (machining and cutting services)
Machining
- Making Springs on the Small Lathe
- Open Source Machine Tools - plans for making your own machine tools for low cost (concrete lathe, mill, etc)
Blacksmithing
Local resources:
- Sanborn Mills in Loudon, NH.
- New England Blacksmiths - Blacksmithing classes around the country
- New England School of Metalwork - classes on blacksmithing and bladesmithing
- Morrell Metal Smiths - classes
Electronics
General
- How LCD Screens work
- Batteries
- Electronics Theory
- Sparkfun tutorials
- Ben Krasnow, tutorials on making electron microscope among other cool things
- All about radio
- OpenWrt - open source Linux distribution for embedded devices (like wifi routers)
- USB Made Simple
- Adafruit tutorials
- Raspberry Pi Foundation
- All About Circuits - an extremely active electrical engineering online community that provides both interesting content and useful resources for Electrical Engineers]
- Maker Pro - an active, open source platform for maker projects much like Hack A Day. These projects are centered around Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Intel Edison, home automation and more.
- EE Power - a digital publication focused on the power electronics industry.
- Electronics Point provides both interesting content and useful resources for Electrical Engineers.
Useful Tools
PCBs
Web Stores
- Sparkfun - kits for soldering classes, solder spools, irons, tools
- iFixIt - tools for phone and device repair
- Spikenzie Labs - kits, parts, goodies
- Mouser - huge electronics manufacturer, has every kind of chip, switch, component
- All Electronics - theoretically everything, has decent prices and a lot of variety
- Electronic Goldmine - bulk parts for cheap, usually discontinued. great for tinkering supplies
- Adafruit - kits, arduinos and arduino clones, Raspberry Pi, wearable electronics
- Pimoroni - British shop for Raspberry Pi
- Pi Hut - UK shop for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit
CNC Routing and Milling
CAM Software
- VCarve Pro
- CamBam
- Easel
- G-Simple
- HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
- MeshCAM
- Rapid PCB to Gcode
- List of other CNC software on Probotix.com
General
- VCarve Pro Introduction
- CNC Dummies for Routers - This Old Tony
- CNC Basics 2 - This Old Tony
- 50 Digital Wood Joints
- Calibrating Feeds and Speeds
- GCode Introduction
- Autotracer - web-based tool to vectorize regular images
- Convert anything to anything
3D Printing
3D Models
- Thingiverse - find 3D models online, share your designs with others
- NASA 3D Resources
- Blender 3D Model Repository
Filament
- Micro Center
- 3D Solutech - also sold cheaper on amazon here
Robotics
- Hebocon - bad robots
- RoboGames!
- Let's Make Robots!
- OpenCV - computer vision for robots and other projects
Gardening
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