The Homebrewer's Guide to the Galaxy
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Prelude
This is the replacement of the link page on electronics-irc.net, hopefully seen as a new and practical form.
It has been broken down into the sections / steps of homemade electronics, to provide a quick reference for your particular problem.
Enjoy!
Theory - know thy enemy
General
- http://www.eznec.com/Amateur/RMS_Power.pdf > Concepts of AVG and RMS explained simple and clearly.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor > Wikipedia is a great source for theory of electronics too. Here, the transistor.
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Electronics > WikiBooks, Electronics subject.
- http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html > HyperPhysics information web: nice things about electronics, physics, etc.
- http://electronicdesign.com > the authority on emerging technologies and design.
Chip / Circuit specific
- http://ouwehand.net/~peter/lcd/lcd.shtml > How to control a HD44780-based LCD.
- http://www.buildorbuy.org/processors.html > Modern PC CPU overview.
- http://www.freeduino.org/ > Lot of AVR tutorials.
- http://www.keil.com/dd/search_parm.asp > Parametric ARM based microcontrollers' search.
Helpful software
- http://www.miscel.dk/ > Free windows program with lots of formulas, predefined schematics etc.
- http://www.tech-systems-labs.com/freesoftware.htm > tech-systems-labs: Turn your computer in a electronic engineering laboratory for free.
- http://atanua.org/ > Sol_HSA's real-time (educational) logic simulator.
Programming aka Black Magic
- http://docs.huihoo.com/help-pc/ > IBM PC BIOS/DOS/hardware programming reference.
- http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece390/books/labmanual/ > ECE 291 docs: asm, PC bios, I/O ports programming.
- http://www.comptechdoc.org/ > Computer Technology Documentation Project - networking, OS, programming guides/tutorials.
- http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2protocol/ > The PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Protocol.
- http://sandiding.tripod.com/Bertys.html > Pinouts of a lot of cellphone LCDs, together with sample code to use them with a PIC mC.
Practice - Build it and He will come
Test equipment
- http://www.leasametric.com/ > Tested, refurbished measurement equipment with guarantee.
Datasheets and pinouts
- http://www.hardwarebook.net > Hardwarebook: connector pinouts, circuits and more.
- http://www.marsport.org.uk/smd/mainframe.htm > *THE* SMD Code Book.
- http://pinouts.ru > Pinouts, connectors, everything you ever wanted to know about 'da Plug'.
- http://www.hifi-remote.com/files > Motorola datasheets.
- http://www.xs4all.nl/~tcsprod/technics/rj45.htm > RJ45.
Part sourcing
- http://digikey.com > Digi-Key, order electronics stuff even if you are not a company (but a human).
- http://octopart.com/ > The Google-equivalent of a electronics parts search-engine.
Schematic and PCB tools
- http://imaginationcubed.com/ > Draw-together Java whiteboard.
- http://www.cadsoft.de/ > EAGLE Layout Editor.
- http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/04/circuitlab-brings-schematic-design-and-sharing-to-the-browser-v/ > Schematic in web browser for easy sharing and drawing.
PCB manufacturers
- http://elprint.dk/index.php > Elprint is an excellent PCB manufacture. They use Macaos, and thus allows you to order whenever you want.
- http://www.olimex.com/pcb/index.html > Make some more PCBs.
- http://www.eurocircuits.com/home/eurocircuits.aspx > Make PCBs.
Collections - Compulsive hoarding is OK
General
- http://epanorama.net > ePanorama.net electronics-resources.
- http://discovercircuits.com > OMG, it's like an ePanorama, with weird colours!
- http://nd47.coderock.org/log_chan_electronics.html > Domen's pasted-URL's collector.
- http://ihrisko.org/~sandi/links/ > Many electronics-related links.
- http://www.zytrax.com/tech/ > Zytrax tech info - quick hands-on access to the Questions of Life!
- http://www.electronics-lab.com/ > Electronics Lab - Home.
- http://hyvatti.iki.fi/~jaakko/pic/pong > Jaakko - PIC12F675 8-PIN PONG.
- http://www.nomad.ee/PIC/first.txt > PIC simple LED flasher.
- http://beyondlogic.org/ > Beyond Logic.
Schematics and manuals for commercial stuff
- http://bama.sbc.edu/ > Lots of manuals and schematics for old test equipment.
- http://www.blue-nokia.com/ > Nokia manuals + firmware.
- http://hobi-elektronika.net > a nice page, a lot of schematics here for various electronics crap here.
- http://www.eserviceinfo.com/ > When your aunt's old TV breaks down or the washing machine stops pumping water, this is the place for a service manual.