Helpful Links

Links

Wood Working

Utilities

• Gear template generator

Machining

• Making Springs on the Small Lathe

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

Useful Tools

• Simple circuit simulator
• 555 Timer Calculator
• Free PCB Layout Program

Web Stores

• Spikenzie Labs - kits, parts, goodies

CNC Routing and Milling

CAM Software

• CamBam
• Easel
• G-Simple
• HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
• MeshCAM
• Rapid PCB to Gcode
• List of other CNC software on Probotix.com

• 50 Digital Wood Joints
• Calibrating Feeds and Speeds
• GCode Introduction
• Autotracer - web-based tool to vectorize regular images
• Convert anything to anything

3D Printing

• Thingiverse - find 3D models online, share your designs with others
• NASA 3D Resources
• Blender 3D Model Repository

Robotics

• RoboGames!
• Let's Make Robots!
• OpenCV - computer vision for robots and other projects

Gardening

• Seed bombing