Helpful Links

Links

Wood Working

Utilities

• Gear template generator

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)

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

Useful Tools

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

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

• 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