ELECTRONICS HOBBYIST

Electricity & Electronics Education

• Bill B's Electricity Articles
• NCSU electronics tutorials
• 101 Science: Electronics
• Free Video Lectures links
• All About Circuits online textbook series
• LED Museum
• Satcure Hobbyist Turorials
• Concise electronics for geeks
• Column: electronics thermal Q & A
• Electronics for Beginners , and Intermediate
• Choosing Capacitors
• 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.

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)
• Dyna Art TTS (make PCBs, the white decal stuff)
• Toner Transfer tutorial
• The PCB FAQ

Kits

• Sparkfun Geiger board or alpha geiger tube
• Tiny Geiger Ctr Kit w/Alpha window, Chaney Elec
• Geiger Counter Kit (w/alpha window!) or just the GM Tube alone.
• Electronikit.com
• CanaKit
• 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)

• Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius a beginners' electronics course (new 2005) also forum. Also try the entire DIY hobbyist "Evil Genius" series.

• The Art of Electronics, also see PDF copy, also Horowitz&Hill site (ICs, intermediate electronics)
• Electrical Engineering 101: Things You Should Have Learned in School...but Didn't!
• Practical Electronics for Inventors
• The Fields of Electronics Morrison, Understanding electronics via physics
• Op Amp Applications Handbook (pdf)
• HS Digital Design: black magic scribd
• Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks, new 2004
• Analog circuit Design: art, science, and personalities
• High Voltage Power Supplies (pdf)
• Op Amps For Everyone (entire free book, 2 meg .pdf)
• Practical Electronics for Inventors
• The Art of Assembly Lang. Programming (online book)
• There Are No Electrons
• Bebop to the Boolean Boogie
• Philbrick Archive big primordial analog resource
• Trinkaus TESLA COIL (beginners)
• The Art of Unix
• 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