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SCI.ELECTRONICS.BASICS
SCI.ELECTRONICS.EQUIPMENT
SCI.ELECTRONICS.REPAIR
SCI.ELECTRONICS.MISC
ALT.FOLKLORE.COMPUTERS
SCI.PHYSICS
SCI.PHYSICS.RESEARCH
SCI.PHYSICS.ELECTROMAG

SCI.CHEM

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ALT.ENERGY.HOMEPOWER
ALT.SOLAR.PHOTOVOLTAIC
COMP.ARCH.EMBEDDED
COMP.ROBOTICS.MISC
ALT.INVENTORS
MISC.INT-PROPERTY
ALT.ENGINEERING.ELECTRICAL
SCI.ENGR.SEMICONDUCTORS
SCI.ENGR
SCI.ENGR.CONTROL
ALT.SCI.AMATEUR
COMP.ARCH.HOBBYIST
ALT.COMP.HARDWARE.HOMEBUILT
ALT.COMP.HARDWARE.HOMEDESIGNED

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SCI, ALT.SCI, ALT.ENERGY, ALT.COMP, COMP

High Volts

TESLA listserv for advanced hobbyists "pupman"
.HV Community
HV list at pumpman
Nerdtoy tesla discussion
usa-tesla (old Intl Tesla Soc. list)
Tesla-fy
All Things Tesla
ALT.ENERGY.HIGH-VOLTAGE news
Tesla-2 for beginners
HV Association wwwboard

Science News

Science Hobbyist forum
MAKE forum
4HV.org
AllAboutCircuits (beginner)
Yahoo group: Mad Scientist (amateur)
Science Madness (amateur)
Scitoys
The Straight Dope forum
Forums at electronics-lab.com
Otherpower wind/solar hobbyists
Electronics BBS at Twisted Pair (link repaired)
Sciforums.com
Physics forums
Yahoo groups: home electronics
Craigslist:seattle:sci
Electro-tech forums
Pease columns , also more
Sparknotes: electrical physics
Circuit Cellar Online
Online Forum at the Xtal Set Society
Devel. Forum (National)
Hypermail forums at EIO (steppers, CCDs, holog, F.O., microcontrollers)
List Archives for Tesla Coil list at pupman.com
High Voltage List at pupman.com
High Voltage List (archive 1996-pres)
High Voltage Assc. forum
Backwash.com: Sci
Science Babble

News resources

Weblogs

Other Peoples' Electronics Hotlists

ePanorama, main hobby electronics resource
Alex's Tutorials links (mirror)
EPE Magazines A-Z link index
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

Gadget Freak, article archive at Design News
Popular Electronics, some old cover stories, jpeg, 1955-1975
Circuit Cellar magazine TOC, project links
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
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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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 Obsolete Technology
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.)
- MyCPU
- 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
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)
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
Web-EE archive, GIF & PDF schematics
delabs PDF/PNG archive
Electronics-lab (Greece)
Circuit Exchange Intl
Bob Blick's projects
TerryPin's GIF schematics
Free circuits
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
Techlib Archive
Electronics Zone
Crystal circuits & tutorials (Wenzel Assc.)
Arron C's circuits
RSWs circuit archive (FTP site)
4QD's Schematics & Lectures
eklektix Circuits
Wenzel Hobby Page
Wenzel Inc.'s PDF circuit library
Hardware Book connector pinout ref, circuits

Other circuits linkfarms

Electronics Design Software (free)

SysInternals Windows admin utilites (free)
Orcad PSPICE 9.1 Student vers
Rfcascade, freeware by Greg
Switchercad, filtercad from Lin. Technology Inc. (free)
freecad.com CAD/CAE freeware archive
5-spice shareware
Merlin PCB
Eagle Lite (PCB)
Digital Works simulator (shareware)
Designworks Lite (schematics)
Protel free trial
Cadint PCB
FPGA devel, webpak ISE (Xilinx)
Free Student Version of the Quickfield magnetic/electrostatic/thermal simulator
Scilab math/sci, FFT etc.
XMDS math simulator
FEMM finite element magnetics
Sonnet Lite for PCB rf reflections
Other free EM code, and more
Finite Element Resources
Terry P. Schem/PCB sw list
Atmel AVR programming sw
3D e-fields

FPGA, VHDL stuff

Electricity/Electronics Education

Bill B's Electricity Articles
NCSU electronics tutorials
Free Video Lectures links
101 Science: Electronics
All About Circuits online textbook series
LED Museum
Satcure Hobbyist Turorials
Column: electronics thermal Q & A
Electronics for Beginners , and Intermediate
Choosing Capacitors
I-FX Electronics (good beginner's site)
Electronics-tutorials.com
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
Poptronics (beginner projects)
Elektor Magazine (UK)
Imagineering Magazine Online, from D.A. Johnson
Hobby Electronics [gone, became a porn site]
ROBOT Science and Tech
EDTN network
EOTW, Electronics on the Web, Issue1 and Issue2
Circuit Surgery (EPE Magazine)

Int'l Magazines

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 Suppliers

Quick-turn PCBs, free CAD sw
Quick-turn PCBs by mail
More quick-turn PCBs by mail
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

3CRM Kits for electronics and science fair
Geiger Counter Kit (w/alpha window!) or just the GM Tube alone.
Electronikit.com
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

Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks, new 2004
Analog circuit Design: art, science, and personalities
Op Amps For Everyone (entire free book, 2 meg .pdf)
Practical Electronics for Inventors
The Art of Assembly Lang. Programming (online book , also see Webster)
There Are No Electrons
Bebop to the Boolean Boogie
The Art of Electronics, also see Horowitz&Hill site (ICs, intermediate electronics)
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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