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Electronics Links
Electronic Kit Manufacturers Electronics Magazines with web sites Electronic Kit Retail Sales IC Data Sheets & IC Manufacturers PIC Programmers, compilers, tools, books PIC, Atmel, Scenix, 80xx, 68HCxx Retail & Surplus Electronic Suppliers General Electronics Robotics, servos, stepper motors Peltier / thermoelectric modules, Solar Panels BEGINNERS electronics & science tutorials University & individually-run sites. New DSP links High voltage, strobes, lasers, lighting Laser light show sites. Liquid crystal displays IC Manufacturers CCD CamerasParallel port information Electronic design tools & virtual instrumentation PC Information & PC Upgrading PGP, hacking, security, info war Ham & pirate radio
Electronic Kit Manufacturers
Oatley Electronics, Sydney, Australia. DIY Electronics hi-quality kits manufacturer,branch in Thailand available. Dontronics. Australia. Microcontrollers and other good electronics stuff. Grantronics, Australia Rainbow Kits, USA. Ramsey Kits, USA. Kemo, Germany. Velleman Kits, Belgium. No explanation is given of how any of their kits work. Nor how to trouble-shoot a kit which does not work. Cana-Kits, BC, Canada. North Country Radio, USA. FM Tx Kits - Veronica, UK. Most FM Transmitter makers listed. Alot technical information about transmitters - simple to advanced. Lots of links. For an excellent introduction to the theory of 'simple 2 stage transmitters see FM transmitter theory. new 7/99 Ozware, W. Australia. CIC, Taiwan. NMRA, Model railway kits Industrial Fiber Optics. Kits Silvertone, Australia. Radio controlled devices. ~jtaylor kits. Available for downloading free. Marchand Electronics. High quality audio. electronickits.com. USA Riverhead Systems. Duncans Amp Page. Resource for those interested in guitar amplifiers, vacuum tubes and design tools such as SPICE modelling. Tube data sheet locator. RCS Radio, Australia. Download PCB freeware software. Proto PCB maker. PCB's for all Australian Silicon Chip & Electronics Australia articles available. tscm.com Professional Bugging Equipment. How to detect bugs in their many forms.
Electronic/Hobby Publications with Websites
New international edition of Everyday Practical Electronics E-zine for subscription & downloading from the webEveryday Practical Electronics One of the best sites actively maintained by Alan Winstanley. Alan has a large A-Z listing of electronics links. Nuts & Volts. One of the best hobby electronics magazines available today. Circuit Cellar. For the advanced hobbyist this is an excellent magazine. RB Elektronica, Benelux French Electronique Pratique Elektor German Elektor UK Techweb - Trade, commercial & retail publications. Asian Sources. Hong Kong based electronics trade magazine. Has many asian electronics suppliers in it but (of course) only those which advertise in it. Discover science magazine. American Scientist The Computer Journal. Irregular publication. Electronics Now & Popular Electronics. So gif/jpg filled it is impossible to load. Plug-in's required. Excellent example of how not to do a website. Silicon Chip, Australia. Electronics Australia, Australia. In decline. Now a glossy consumer mag. Needs new blood!
Electronic Kit Sellers with Websites
Amazon Electronics, USA Carl's Electronics, USA Kits USA Quality Kits, Canada. Gateway USA. Marlin Jones. ldbrewer.com USA sales for Veronica FM kits & others. Science First, Buffalo Jaycar, Australia sciencekits.com. Cantronics, Alberta, Canada Quasar, UK ASA Micros Ltd, UK DTE Microsystems, UK Archimedes Products, South Africa.
IC $ Passives Databases
Philips Passive Components Now 669 IC manufacturers (10/98) indexed by letter of the alphabet. Specifically for getting data sheets from suppliers. ~donw1948. Excellent site. Gray's Semiconductor Page has a comprehensive list of IC manufacturers on it Data Sheet links. Well kept site. ~dburke The Electronic Guide. Listing of Electronics manufacturers. BeMa. Large with many mirror sites. Links to chip manufacturers by company name, chip number & function. ~ganswijk Mirror site of previous directory. hitex.com. Semiconductor Subway. Dana's index of over 600 electronics manufacturers eenet.com Online directory for the Electronics Industry. Huge. Over 12,000 links. Tds net. Over 70,000 data sheets available free.
IC Manufacturers
Allegro AMP Analog Devices Analog Devices Atmel Avtech Electrosystems Info on diodes in the faq. Bourns Dallas Semiconductor Echelon Elantec Emware Embedded Internet software. 80C51 I2C Epson japan Harris Hewlett Packard HP software & support International Rectifier Information Storage Devices International Rectifier. Power mosfet's IQD crystals Linear Technology Also Linear Technology Maxim Micro Electronics Corp Motorola Semiconductor Product Site.Links to other Motorola sites from this site. Motorola Data Sheets Index. National Semiconductor. Pericom Philips. Seriplex SGS Thompson Sierra Semiconductor Signal Processing Technologies Sony. Texas Instruments. Unitrode. Wenzel Associates, precision crystal oscillators. Xicor. Zetex
PIC Programmers
If you are a beginner then start with the PIC16F84 and just get a beginners programmer. The first 3 links below are beginners programmers. Any are suitable.Bojan Dobaj P16PRO & PICALL programmers. PIC programmers. Octavio Nogueira. Well built beginners programmers. Supported. Covington 'no components' PIC Programmer. Published in Electronics Now, 9/98 & Silicon Chip, 3/99. Not guaranteed to work on all parallel ports but will probably work on yours. Kit sold by Oatley Electronics Sydney, Australia. Beginners programmer. Don McKenzie. SIMMstick. Well supported. Not for beginners Newfound Electronics. For experienced users, good PIC technical information & links. picflash PIC programmers. Parallax PIC Programmers Under new management Tech-Tools. 1/99. Incircuit emulators & programmers. See here for PIC in-circuit real-time emulators. Jens Madsen 16C84 programmers. Free, minimum components. EPIC Programmer Works on NT. (To many add-ons!) Pekka Titamaki Has non-firmware David Tait 16C5x programmer corrected. Full list of PIC programmers, compilers, assemblers, people, books and other stuff. wky, germany Design for a PIC programmer.
PIC Compilers
Lars Silens language C2C & P2C Low cost C and Pascal compilers. Wouters 'just another language' $59 C compiler for SX & PIC. A review for PIC has been done by Peter Anderson. Microchip
Microchip Web Site PIC chip manufacturer. Microchip Web Site Application Notes Microchip ftp Site But you have to know the Index number of the part. There are some excellent & well kept sites dealing with PIC's: Microchip Net Resources. Excellent, up-to-date, very comprehensive reference site. Don McKenzie. David Tait. The person who originally designed the 'Tait' style of PIC programmer in 1994. See /files/uppboard.pdf for 16C5x non-firmware programmer. Fast Forward Engineering The Hardware Book Tjaart van der Walt yves hellig. 16F84 files. phanderson.com PIC interfacing, technical use and much more. Eric Schlaepfer E_Lab Digital Engineering. Includes an Embedded resources directory of over 500 web sites used by uC engineers. TAK Design. Alot of links; FAQ's. Melabs. PIC development Tools & proto PCB's. Forest Electronic Developments. GNUPIC Archive. Collection of freeware PIC Development tools. Softaids Embedded Web. For anyone in embedded controllers, uC design. ftp site for PIC software published by Everyday Practical Electronics UST. PIC AVR 8051. Home of Easy PIC'n book. Home of Myke Predko's PIC book. www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html. Search piclist archives. There is an Atmel discussion group which you can join by logging onto at eGroups/list/avr
Atmel, Scenix, 80xx, 68HCxx
Atmel. Breathing new life into the 80xx. Atmel. Stelios Cellar. Atmel website. many AVR links. 2/99 Scenix Net Resources. Over 100 links, programmers, tools. Jan Axelson ,the US magazine columnist who has written a book on the 80xx family. 8051 info Many 80xx links. Roger's Embedded Microcontroller Page. 68HC05/11. Plus alot of other info. Bema. Web sites for 8051, PIC, 68HX11 & other uC's.
Retail & Surplus Electronic Suppliers
Computer/communications Reference Page. Brookdale Electronics. Circuit Specialists. Digikey. Meredith Instruments, Lasers. Online Technical Exchange. Universal Systems Components. Hamilton-Hallmark. Netcomponents.com All Electronics. Gateway Electronics. Robot Store, California. Robotbooks. JDR, Jameco. MWK. Marshall. Mouser Electronics. EIO, Electronic Information Online. Retail outlet with some online forums. Electronic components, test equipment tools especially for schools. Radio Direction Finding Systems. Microwave motion sensors. Electrobase. Search the USA for what you want. Farnell in the UK. Components. Maplin in the UK. Dans Small Parts. Low price RF & general components. A handful of kits. Montana. Thailand - electronics producers & suppliers Stacom Corp. Webscope/elx. Wyle. Surplus
Surplus Sales Of Newbraska American Science & Surplus, Illinois Hitech Surplus, Idaho Surplus Traders, Vermont Quantity & OEM sales only. Links. Vorlac Industries, Australia Discrete components. Marlin Jones, Florida Rockby Industries, Australia General electronics. Oatley Electronics, Australia.
General Electronics
Circuitonline.com Directory, services & resource guide for engineers in semiconductor industry. General engineering & microcontroller site. Pinouts & basic info for logic, uP & other chips. You input the pin data. sci.electronics.repair FAQ Sam Goldwasser. Note about repairing electrical goods, LCD, & alot of electronics FAQ's. Alot of Radio Control links & information. Run by Sam Goldwasser. Index of semiconductor companies. Technical & marketing info. Some good electronic links here. Also robotics, ham radio, PIC tools Electronic Engineers Toolbox. Alot of information here. The Electronic Guide. Comprehensive. Describes itself as a website for the electronic engineer: employment info, mailing lists, newsgroups & many links. Information & code on Magnetic cardreaders & IR Remotes. AES Microcontrollers & Embedded Systems. Cybercircuit. Encyclopaedia of circuits & formulae. Electrical Engineering Archives. U Wash. The Basics of Design Engineering. Motion control, CAD/CAM, fluid power etc. Radio Controlled
Radio Control of planes & gliders etc.
Robotics, Servos & Mechanically Related Areas
electronics projects: stepper motor driver, data acquisition with A/D conv. and connecting via parallel port and PIC measurement device with LCD and A/D.
Servo controller, bearing temperature monitors, shaft speed controllers. Walking Robots Group; 16 servo controller. Karl Lunt, Nuts & Volts columnist. Kevin Ross. lasermotion.com Second hand laser & motion related items: mirrors, motors, X-Y tables. Owikit Robotics. BEAM robotics. All about servos. www.4qd.co.uk Portland Area Robotics Society. Seattle Robotics Society. Large robitics discussion & links especially the FAQ. Alot of other links too. cera2.com. Larrys Robotics and Electronics page. BEAM Robotics Designer George Katz
Stepper Motors
Info & code on using 5804 as well as alot of info on the PC parallel port. Ian Harries. Links, drive circuits and information. DC Motor Control using mosfets & H-bridge. ~tonymerc Excellent tutorial on Steppers & DC motors. mbartels Good tutorial on stepper motors & how to drive them. But out-of-date. No info on the Allegro stepper driver UCN5804. Links. schmaus
Thermoelectric Devices, Peltier Modules, Solar
Melcor, Peltier Module manufacturer. Free design software. Alot of information. Marlow, Peltier Module manufacturer. Also alot of information. Kryotherm, St. Petersburg, Russia. yessolar.com powerexperts Advance Power Technologies cleanenergy photon
Beginners - science, electronics & computer information
Comprehensive & excellent sites. Many links to a VERY wide range of topics.Internetnews.com Daily news about the Net. scicentral.com Over 50,000 links in 120 specialties in science & engineering. Tutorials in electronics, electrochemistry & physics as well as Reference tables. Electronics for beginners. ~diana Good basic chapters introducing electronics. Open basic 1 2 3 etc. Excellent tutorial on Steppers & DC motors. Beginners. Tony Mercer. Electronics for beginners. ~jadams. Author of Internet Guide to the Electronics Industry. Iguana Labs Beginners Tutorials. School & Amateur Science. Hundreds of science-related links. Excellent site The Science Club. Many science projects & links. Excellent site Basic Electronic science Theory from International Rectifier. All about Electrolytic Capacitors. Society for Amateur Scientists. Linear Circuit Analysis for RF & Audio. Access Excellence. Many science links. Got a problem - askanexpert A terrific idea. 12 categories from which to ask an expert your question. UK. Introduction to designing electronic circuits using circuit simulation software crocodile-clips. Links to UK school & electronic sites.
There is a huge amount of technical information to be found in the following University & Individually-run Sites.Tomi Engdahl Electronics info plus 2000 electronics links. A must-visit site. Alex's Electronic Resource Library Huge Library, Links & Glossary on electronics & related. A must-visit site. Steve Walz See the ftp section. Don Lancaster Excellent site. Has good pseudoscience references. Programmersheaven.com Tons of stuff on programming. Site redone 4/99 Angelfire. C programming snippets.com. C programming C programming Alan Winstanley. Alan has a large A-Z listing of electronics links. University of Alberta, Physics 395 lecture notes. Starts simple but gets deep pretty quick. Solid info. Dr. Gingrich. University of Alberta Electronic Cookbook Archive University of Alberta Electronic Circuit Cookbook. ~charro Or use their ftp site and change to /PUB/COOKBOOK/ Sunsite. Twysted Pair. Electronic tutorials to download. Ocean Control, designer of my Kit 118. Schemtics for electronic projects. ~cake. Jughead Specializing in modem, wireless, computer & electronics. Modem, LAN, X25, datacomm, ISDN, TCP/IP tutorial links. Good site National Physical Laboratory, UK. year2138 Electronics, electromagnetic, amateur radio links. Dr Bob Dr Bob's Resource just starting up Dark Portal Large gif's slow it down but good links. ftp.luth.se. Bills itself as the top ftp archive site in Europe.
Some sites with good discussions of particular topics.Grey Code Hologram software CNC Machine Plans & Links Everything about crystals & cutting Comprehensive list of the worlds phone plugs, electrical plugs & voltages. Digital Signal Processor Net. Also see dsp info at Motorola, Texas Instruments , and Analog Devices. TI TMS320C6x DSP info site. Andrew Phillips. Venn diagrams
High voltage, strobes, lighting, lasers
Snock's High voltage page. Links to other HV sites. Don Klipstein. Lasers. Tesla coil. High-voltage. Large. Laser-Optics UK Lighting & illumination. David Jenkins The Laser Resource Library. Ed Edmondson & Sam Goldwasser
Laser light shows
pangolin.com laser-fx.com. alnitak7 laserfantasy.com. Laser Laser Productions Galvanometer scanners sites: genscan.com camtech.com
Batteries
Duracell Varta Lecture & practical notes Eveready
LCD's
Mizu Hantronix Micro Electronics Microversal Truly Information & code dealing with the most common LCD controller IC's. PIC16C84 & 8051 code to control HD44780 Control LM0181 & HD44780 LCD, touchscreen theory, 68HC11 code to drive HD44780. Graphics LCD info. LCD links.
CCD Cameras
CCD cookbook camera page. ~rberry CCD cookbook page wsu CCD cookbook page. jathumbe Supercircuits scx.com
Parallel Port Information
~filipg parallel port FAQ purdue.edu Info & code on using 5804 as well as alot of info on the PC parallel port. Cpeacock. Interfacing to a PC Also 8255 PC Interface Card Tutorial Web Site. ~paul/boondog ualberta. ftp pport095.* ftp files *ltp.faq, ibmlpt.faq & krislpt.faq. Morrow476 Two books on the Parallel Port and alot of related information.
Electronics Design Tools & Virtual Instrumentation
MentalMax. Download demo. Circuit Maker Electronic Laboratory. Labview 5.0 Proteus. Download demo. Niche Software. Download PCB design demo. Intusoft. SPICE software.Alot software downloads available. Electronics Workbench. Beige Bag. BB Spice/Logic. For the hobbyist these above programs are quite OK. But for more accurate simulation as well as more control over the parts try MicroSim PSpice. MicroCapV. Download a demo. crocodile-clips.com Very basic introduction to circuit simulation software. UK. Advanced Microcomputer Systems. New digital signal processing products. Protel Home Page. Ivex Home Page.CAD Package for PCBs. Demo available. Pads Home Page.CAD Package for PCBs. Niche Software. download pcbdemo.zip Electronic Principles 3.0. Software to teach electronics. Along the lines of Electronic Workbench. Demo available. RF & Electronic CAD. Demo version to download. Alot of links to other sites. Data Translation Inc. Intelligent Instrumentation Inc. Link Instruments CRO's, logic analysers, pattern generators. IOtech Inc. Keithley MetraByte.PC Data Acquisition Systems National Instrumants. Strawberry Tree Inc. Data Acquisition & Control. Workbench PC for Windows.
PC Upgrading & PC Information
There is a massive amunt of PC information on these sites.System Optimisation web site. Tom's Hardware Guide. Build your own PC. Introduction to PC Hardware The Upgraders Workshop. Build a Computer. PC Mechanic. The Hardware Book. Connector & cable data as well.
PGP, Encryption, Security, Info War, Web Security
For leads to the world of cryptography, PGP, etc. Comprehensive intro to the world of cryptography, remailers. PGP with Eudora, etc. Excellent site Another interesting site related to cryptography. Where to get PGP outside the USA. Latest version 5.0 available. PGP links. Use PGP on your phone calls. Use PGP on your email. Pronto Secure. Information warfare. Links to other sites. softwar Information warfare: Winn Schwartau, author of the excellent book Information Warfare. Center for Democracy & Technology. Web security & related matters. anonymizer.com Use the web anonymously. Secure File System for files on your hard disk. If you want to encrypt just part of a single hard disk (you need C: to boot from so you must create D:) then you will need FIPS15.ZIP to make D: from an in-use C:. Get it from Sunsite in /pub/linux/system/install. Secure Drive. Encrypt your Hard Disk. Other disk encryption systems as well. General Security & encryption site. Documents the ease of breaking secure Smartcards, DS5000, PIC chips. Spies, cyber war, NSA etc. Many links to intelligence information, background, history.
Ham, amateur radio
Huge lists & links to amateur radio, pirate radio as well as blues music & christian sites. Ham radio & ham links. (Nice world clock you can download.) UK Ham radio & pirate radio. Mathematics & statistics tools.
statsoft.com abacus.com jandel.com Axum mathsoft.com. OriginLab.com - OriginLab Corporation, Formerly Microcal Software Inc. Data analysis and graphing software.