Links to useful, informative or bizarre Web pages:
Comic Strips
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Maker Sites and Forums
- Make magazine
- Instructables
- Dorkbot Bristol
- 6502.org
- XGameStation
- Brass Goggles
- Drainspotting
- UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum
- Let's Make Robots!
Geek Things
- DIY Calculator
- DIY PCB Router
- Mechanically Scanned Display
- Bob Blick's Propeller Clock and many other projects
- Nixie Tube and Mechanically Scanned Clocks
- LeapSecond.com, HP Frequency Standards and Nixie clocks
- A Tribute to HP Test Equipment Power Switches
- Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer
- Mister Transistors Historic Semiconductors
- The Antique Chip Collector's Page
- Frank's Electron Tube Pages
- 405 Alive
- CPU World
- Angry Kitchen Appliances simulated 7-segment displays
- RetroThing vintage gadgets and technology
Electronics
- IC Photos
- IC Die Photography by William Blair
- Small Battery Company
- FPGA for Fun
- FPGA Arcade
- Homebrew CPU
- Big Mess o' Wires A Homebrew CPU
- MyCPU Project
- Mike's Electric Stuff with all sorts of Nixie tubes
- Nixie Tubes and Magic Eyc Tubes
- Philbrick Archive, Op-Amp pioneer
- Web51, a web server with Ethernet on an 8051
- Beyond Logic, all about microcontrollers and interfacing
- Arduino, an Atmel-based microcontroller board
- Mignon Game Kit, an Atmel-based handheld game machine
- Ericsson A1018s, a GSM phone based on the Atmel AVR
- Chalkroach, an Atmel ATmega32-based microcontroller board
- Number Six Microcontroller Board, another ATmega32 board
- MIDIbox OPL3 Module, a PIC-based MIDI FM synthesiser
- CadSoft, home of Eagle CAD
- DipTrace, another PCB design tool
- FreePCB, an Open Source PCB design tool for Windows
- KiCAD PCB design
- Osmond PCB CAD for Mac OS
- Front Panel Express Europe
- Microwave connector reference
- British Amateur Electronics Club
- FTDI USB-to-serial and USB-to-parallel chips
- EDTP embedded ethernet devices
- Speech Chips, including the SP0256 allophone chip
- AY-3-8910 Homepage
- Sound generators of the 1980s home computers
Robotics
- Cybot information by Mike Stracey
- Cybot information by Nigel Goodwin
- Robotik Praktikum (including the Rug Warrior)
- Robotic F.A.C.E. at the MIT Media Lab
- Society of Robots (mentions use of carbon fibre)
- Robot-Crawler (6 legs) with PlayStation controller
- Cody's Robot Optical Motion Sensor #1 (CROMS-1)
- Seattle Robotics Society
- Dallas Personal Robotics Group
- Simple DC Motor Controller from the Seattle Robotics Society
- Artificial Mouse Project featuring whisker sensors
- Homebuilt ROV
Electric Vehicles
- Battery Vehicle Society main site and forum
- EV Photo Album, showing my EV
Software
- memtest86, A Stand-alone Memory Diagnostic
- Memtest86+, An Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool
- POV-Ray, The Persistence of Vision Raytracer
- Mozilla
- Opera Web Browser
- PuTTY, A Free Telnet/SSH Client
- Subversion version control system
- Tobi Oetiker's Open Source Projects, RRDtool and mrtg
- IrfanView Image Viewer
- NetStumbler
- Kismet
- The Ethereal Network Analyzer
- Freesco, an open source router and firewall
- FloppyFW, an router and firewall on a floppy disk
- RealVNC
- TightVNC
- VideoLAN, home of the VLC Media Player
- Audacity
- Nels Anderson's Mahjongg
- Nano VM Java for the AVR
- Autostitch photo panorama stitching software
Networking
Books and Publishers
- The Art of Electronics
- Walt Jung's Website, author of the IC Op Amp Cookbook, the IC Timer Cookbook and many others
- Bebop To The Boolean Boogie
- O'Reilly
- Amazon UK
- Abebooks UK
- Alibris UK
- Book Crossing
- BookBrain.co.uk
- Book Barn
- Lindsay's Technical Books, sold in the UK by Camden Miniature Steam Services
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Wikipedia
- Dictionary.com
- Thesaurus
- Acronym Finder
- Acronym Attic
- World Atlas of Maps, Flags and Geography Facts and Figures
- Urban Dictionary
- Uncyclopedia
- Microwave Encyclopedia
Maps
- Google Maps
- The Ordnance Survey
- StreetMap
- MultiMap
- Maporama
- Bristol & Bath Cycle Map
- Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square!
- GPS Drawing
- GPS Visualizer
- Geocaching
- HostIP IP address geolocation
- Mappr
- Frappr
- Make magazine's map on Frappr
- Tek scope collectors' map on Frappr
- Suzuki owners' map on Frappr
Museums
- Science Museum, London
- The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
- The Exploratory
- Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) Museum of Technology
- Cathode Ray Tube Museum
- Connected Earth BT museum of communication
- Centre for Computing History in Haverhill, Suffolk
Bristol Stuff
- Bristol City Council
- Stoke Gifford Parish Council
- Marine Current Turbines designed in Stoke Gifford
- Visit Bristol (Bristol Tourism and Conference Bureau)
- Venue magazine
- Trade-It
- This is Bristol
- Bristol Science Café
- Bristol Filton Aerodrome
- Weather Station Data for Horfield/Filton, Bristol, UK
- IET Bristol
- BCS Bristol
- Libraries West, including Bristol library catalogues
- Bristol Active Social Club
- Bristol Tours
- Memories of Bristol
- Bristol History
- About Bristol, Pictorial Tours of Bristol
- Seven Secret Wonders Of Bristol
- Bristol Rail: history of railways in and around Bristol
- Bristol Tramways Power Stations 1895-1941
Bristol Events
- Bristol Jack in the Green (and also here) 3rd May 2008
- An Adventure In Technology 28th June 2008
- Bristol Microcar Club Annual Rally 4th to 6th July 2008, Keynsham
- Weston Super Helidays 25th-27th July 2008
- Bristol Balloon Fiesta 7th-10th August 2008
- Bristol Model Engineers Annual Exhibition 15th-17th August 2008
- Bristol International Kite Festival 30th-31st August 2008
- Bristol Doors Open Day 13th September 2008
Web-Museums
- EB5AGV's Test Equipment Collection
- Heathkit Museum
- CPU Shack museum of microprocessors
- Atari Archives, including the Creative Computing archive
- The Canon Camera Museum
- Total Rewind
- Rewind Museum
- The Museum of HP Calculators
- HP Computer Museum
- Kenneth Kuhn's HP Museum
- HP Memory Project
- 8-Track Heaven
- Jim's Computer Garage
- Quadruplex Park, the museum of broadcast technology
- The Museum of RetroTechnology
- Virtual Valve Museum
- The Vintage Technology Association, featuring lots of display technologies
Technical Specifications and Info
- USB - Universal Serial Bus
- IMC - Internet Mail Consortium - including the vCard specification
- PNG - Portable Network Graphics
- IrDA - Infra-Red Data Association
- IEEE 1394 - Also known as FireWire
- Visual Elements - a hypertext version of the Periodic Table
- Usermanual-Online.com
Engineering
- Animated Engines
- Stirling Engines
- Rusty Iron Workshop, old stationary engines, tractors and machinery
- Homebrew Touch Probe
- Anodising Aluminium at home
- Dan's Workshop: advanced home workshop projects
- Morse Tapers for mounting drills and chucks
- Story of Paxman Diesels
- Internal Fire Museum of Power
- Hammerite
- Handy list of Paint Solvents
- WD-40
- The Duct Tape Guys
- Colchester Lathes
- Jubilee Clips
- Henry Petroski, author of "To Engineer is Human" and "The Evolution of Useful Things"
- Online Graph Paper and Grid Paper (PDFs)
Architecture
- Buckminster Fuller Institute
- R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ
- Buckminsterfullerene
- Antoni Gaudi
- Walter Gropius
- Charles Holden: Architect
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society
- Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Fonts and Typography
- Font Freak
- Fontage
- True Type Typography
- Cool Archive
- Acid Fonts
- The Font Ring
- Webring for the Font Obsessed
Well, I like them, anyway...
- The Theatre Organ Home Page - mentions Leslie speakers
- New Yankee Workshop featuring Norm Abram
- The Severn Bore page
Bizarre
- More information about pencils than you can shake a stick at
- Do Not Sleep
- The Official 5.25" Disk Sleeve Archive
- The Dialectizer