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Neat Links
03-07-2013, 06:59 AM, (This post was last modified: 03-07-2013, 07:31 AM by david tremaine.)
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Neat Links
http://www.homemadetools.net - "online community for builders of homemade tools"

Curious Inventor: Guides - good tutorials on electronics skills and projects, including How to Solder Correctly, and Why [thanks, davidf!]

Autospeed: DIY Tech Features - Some great stuff here! A writer for this site, Julian Edgar, has several how-to's on scrounging useful parts from discarded consumer and business goods (e.g. stepper motors from old copier machines)

Point of Inquiry: Episode archive While I'm at it, here's a pretty smart radio show I just found out about, from The Center for Inquiry, whose mission "is to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values."

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03-07-2013, 09:36 AM,
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RE: Neat Links
www.sciplus.com For all sorts of fairly cheap motors, electronics, toys and a lot of other miscellaneous things.
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03-07-2013, 09:53 AM,
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RE: Neat Links
I recently came across another site, http://www.DX.com. They sell all kinds of electronics for cheap. Ships out of Singapore by the look of it, but free shipping on all orders to the US, and seems to be an inexpensive source of small electronics parts. Can't vouch for quality, as my recent order has not arrived.

http://dx.com/c/electrical-tools-499
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03-07-2013, 10:17 AM,
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RE: Neat Links
(03-07-2013, 09:53 AM)tupperck Wrote: I recently came across another site, http://www.DX.com. They sell all kinds of electronics for cheap. Ships out of Singapore by the look of it, but free shipping on all orders to the US, and seems to be an inexpensive source of small electronics parts. Can't vouch for quality, as my recent order has not arrived.

http://dx.com/c/electrical-tools-499

We got some Arduino Unos for our lab at work from them. Quality was good, but it sure took a long time for them to arrive. Can't beat the price though. If we do an Arduino class, I was thinking that we could have some on hand for people to buy if they would like. This would be a fundraiser for the group. This is the place where I was planning on ordering them from, because they are dirt cheap if you buy more than 3 at a time.
-N8

"I built it because I didn't know I couldn't"
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09-01-2015, 07:50 PM,
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RE: Neat Links
(03-07-2013, 06:59 AM)david tremaine Wrote: http://www.homemadetools.net - "online community for builders of homemade tools"

Jon here from HomemadeTools.net.

I know this thread is an old one, but thanks for the mention Smile

To celebrate our 20,000th homemade tool, we made a new ebook featuring our top 50 homemade tools. You're welcome to it for free:

http://download.homemadetools.net/50MustReadTools.pdf

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02-23-2016, 09:20 AM, (This post was last modified: 02-23-2016, 09:20 AM by david tremaine.)
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RE: Neat Links
Here's a short-but-awesome Youtube series by a guy named Dan Gelbart, taking the viewer on a tour of his amazing prototyping shop and the equipment he uses.
18 ~10min videos, one beautiful accent.

Building Prototypes, part 1 of 18
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