Embedded Files
FabCentral HelloWorld Page for AVR microcontroller projects
Magazines:
Electronics: CircuitCellar | Everyday Practical Electronics | EDN | Elektor
Buying electronic components and widgets online:
The best online shop for electronic widgets and boards: Sparkfun (USA)
The best online distributor of components: Digikey (USA)
India specific:
Omkar Kulkarni's blog is a definitive source for information on buying components in India and on electronics in general
Microcontrollers
Physical Computing:
Arduino (can be bought from sparkfun)
Arduino is based on: processing & wiring
Arduino 2 actual product: fritzing
Wearable Arduino: Lilypad | @sparkfun
Rob Faludi (Instructor @ NYU)
AVR Microcontrollers:
avrfreaks.net (Community Forum)
AVRStudio (Assembler + IDE - Windows)
WinAVR (C Compiler - Windows)
Cornell ECE 4760 Final Projects (Cool Student Projects)
AVRISP Pinout:
Free Software
Linux:
Office Suite:
OpenOffice (linux/windows)
PCB Design :
eagle (linux/windows)
eagle3d (linux/windows) (requires povray)
3D:
Blender (linux/windows)
Google Sketchup (windows)
povray (linux/windows)
Vector Graphics:
Inkscape (linux/windows)
Circuit Simulation:
LTspice (windows)
Scripting:
ActivePython (linux/windows) | Python Docs
ActivePerl (linux/windows) | Perl Docs
Virtualization:
VirtualBox (linux/windows)
Compression:
7-Zip (windows)
Internet Browsers:
Firefox (linux/windows)
Google Chrome (windows)
Other cool useful sites:
Bug Labs | Keith Neufeld's Electronics Blog |
Cool Stuff Available from Digikey (not related to fablab inventory but cool anyway):
Low cost community supported 32-bit boards:
Beagleboard ($149)
TI's Multicore OMAP Processor = 32bit processor + DSP + Graphics accelerator
ATNGW100 (~$90) Official | Wiki | Buy from Digikey
Atmel's 32bit Application Processor
Other interesting boards:
Digi's RCM5700 MiniCore ($99)
Rabbit Semiconductor's 8-bit processor: Inexpensive, Full Ethernet support, Free C Compiler, Full featured library (incl, TCP/IP, AJAX web server, AES, SPI etc etc)
Other interesting devices:
Lantronix's Xport (Ethernet <-> Serial RS232 )
Digi's Xbee (ZigBee/802.15.4 <-> Serial)
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