electronics

Useful information and links about electronics.

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Resources

• HV Wiki: science/tech wiki emphasis on electronics, especially high-voltage & analog
• Open Circuits wiki
• Make: print magazine, blog, forum/community, and store

Links

• The Hardware Book: electronics reference guide
• HowStuffWorks electronics section

Parts (retail)

• major suppliers
  • Digi-Key
• niche
  • Critter and Guitari: "electronic music and video instruments and supplies"
    • projects, tutorials, and reference
  • Spark Fun: "Your Source for Prototyping Supplies"

Projects

• The New Altair 8800 Kit
• Hack A Day: "hack a day serves up a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week."
• Instructables: "step-by-step collaboration"
• MIDI Sensor
• µCApps (Microcontroller Apps): Free MIDI DIY projects
• Very Low-Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDs
• Squeezebox phone announcements: circuit for pausing audio server when phone is in use; also information about decoding Caller ID

Prototyping

• Gadgetboard: Free-source, low cost, user friendly Atmel proto board "on steroids"
• Bluetooth Primer

Tools

• Macraigor Systems: tools for debugging embedded CPUs

Related Articles

• Consumer Electronics: information about consumer electronic devices
• Woozle's electronic learning kit No. 1