More WWW Links

• Ramsey Kits, USA.
• Kemo, Germany.
• Cana-Kits, BC, Canada. Good supplier but small range.
• Oatley Electronics, Sydney, Australia.  Moving away from 'kits' and moving to surplus sales. (9/2000)
• Velleman Kits, Belgium.  The website is also moving away from 'kits' and into other areas of their business like product design, custom keyboards, electronic components, tools, consumer electronics etc. These are the main profit centers of their business. Rate of new kits issued over the last year has slowed. (9/2000)
• Rainbow Kits, USA.
• Veronica, UK. Partnership gone bad. So now two Veronicas.
• Veronica FM, UK The more 'original' Veronica.
• Suma Designs, UK. Surveillance.
• North Country Radio, USA.
• Tree of Knowledge, Israel.

  Smaller Manufacturers and Other Kit Information:

• Harry Lythall's Homebrew Page.
• Lucid Technologies
• Wirz Electronics. LCD Kits
• Grantronics, Australia
• Mantis Electronics, melbourne, Australia.
• Scott Edwards Electronics. LCD Kits. Serial in, graphics out
• HobbyTron, USA. Gary Gibson.
• Magenta, UK. Once very big in the UK but never saw the world as its market. Got stuck in the UK. Now a shadow of its former self.
• NMRA, Model railway kits
• Industrial Fiber Optics. Kits
• Silvertone, Australia. Radio controlled devices.
• ~jtaylor kits. Available for downloading free.
• Marchand Electronics. High quality audio.
• Riverhead Systems.
• AM & Shortwave Valve Radio Kits
• 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.
• Applied Micronics, australia.  About 10 projects.
• Ian Purdie's Kits and Tutorials. RF.
• electronics-tutorials.com
• http://208.46.148.11/
• http://www.2600.com/news/1999/1218.html

  Robotics, Servos & Mechanically Related Areas

  Furby Websites. Furby problems discussed.
  

• nilgram.co.uk
• maznilz
• Geocities 7438
• tqn
• wired.com Introduction to them.
• phobe.com Discusses Furby problems.
• Elekit, Japan. Manufacturer of Medusa, Robot Arm, Sumo Man, Hyper Preppy, Circular Nero, Line Tracer, WAO
• Owikit Robotics. Major USA importer and distributor of Elekit
• Karl Lunt, Nuts & Volts columnist.
• Robotbooks.com. Good books and kits links.
• Kevin Ross.
• BEAM robotics.
• Portland Area Robotics Society.

    News, Tutorials, Discussion Forums, RobotCafe.com Has It All!
  Seattle Robotics Society.

• Large robitics discussion & links especially the FAQ. Alot of other links too.
• BEAM Robotics

  Electronic/Hobby Publications

• Silicon Chip, Australia. Quite good although I cannot fathom the reason for some of the article choices. Railway kits are featured but and proven non-sellers in Australia. The 2/2000 features a chip which was discontinued about 18 months ago (LM3909!) My current 4/2000 edition admits that the Editor cannot understand the Internet! Increasingly parochial.
• Electronics Australia, Australia. In slow but steady decline. Now a glossy consumer mag.

  And some science magazines I like:

• American Scientist
• The Sciences

  Beginners - science, electronics & computer information

  Comprehensive & excellent sites. Many links to a VERY wide range of topics.

   

• More GPS Information. Search on GPS
• More on GPS
• Flash memory and how it works.
• Iguana Labs Beginners Tutorials.
• Intel Museum. Elementary introduction to many electronics topics.
• Interfacing the PC including LCDs. A must visit site. ALOT of information.
• 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.
• Internetnews.com Daily news about the Net.

• Ocean Control, designer of my Kit 118.
• Jughead Specializing in modem, wireless, computer & electronics.
• Modem, LAN, X25, datacomm, ISDN, TCP/IP tutorial links. Good site
• National Physical Laboratory, UK.
• year2138 Electronics, electro magnetic, amateur radio links.
• Ref 1. broadband-guide.com
• Ref 2. belden.com
• Ref 3. nhc.com

  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
• Laser Modulation and other stuff
• The Laser Resource Library. Ed Edmondson & Sam Goldwasser
• Laser Communications

  IC and Application Note Sources and Databases

• IC manufacturers indexed by letter of the alphabet. Specifically for getting data sheets. ~donw1948. Excellent site.
• Data Sheet links. Well kept site. ~dburke
• Links to chip manufacturers by company name, chip number & function. ~ganswijk
• IC data sheets. questlink.com
• IC Data Sheets. chipcenter.com  Could not find MAX038 when I tried it.
• chipdir.com There are a huge number of technical papers available by searching Adobe pdf files online. Try searchpdf.adobe.com
• Philips Passive Components
• Tommy's Pinout Connection
• The Hardware Book
• Dana's index of over 600 electronics manufacturers
• eenet.com Online directory for the Electronics Industry. Huge. Over 12,000 links.
• Tds net. Technical Data`Systems. 10 CDROMs of information for sale.

  Buy ICs direct from suppliers the USA

• findchips.com Excellent new modern way to find and then buy ICs.
• partminer.com
• ic makers then find distributors
• nuhorizons.com/
• digikey.com/
• arrow.com/
• http://www.future.ca/
• FAI
• marshall.com/
• avnet.com
• ied.pios.com/
• newark.com
• Passives. harrykrantz.com

  IC Manufacturers

• Allegro
• AMP
• Analog Devices
• Atmel
• Avtech Electrosystems Info on diodes in the faq.
• Bourns
• Dallas Semiconductor
• Echelon
• Elantec
• Emware Embedded Internet software. 80C51 I2C
• Epson japan
• Intersil, the new name for Harris
• Hewlett Packard
• HP software & support
• International Rectifier
• Information Storage Devices
• International Rectifier. Power mosfet's
• IQD crystals
• Linear Technology
• Also Linear Technology
• Maxim
• Mitel
• National Semiconductor.
• Pericom
• Philips. semiconductors.com  The main one for searching.
• Seriplex
• SGS Thompson
• Signal Processing Technologies
• Teltone
• Texan Instruments.
• Unitrode.
• Wenzel Associates, precision crystal oscillators.
• Xicor.
• Zetex

  
  PIC Programmers

  Traps for the unwary: does it come with an assembler and programming software? If not, where do you get them. Is there technical support? Does it have on-board firmware which will need upgrading (at a price) when new devices are released? Are a PCB and components provided or do you have to make your own? (What use is free software if you have to make and produce your own PCB?) Remember the more 'free' it is, the less support you will certainly get.

• Bojan Dobaj P16PRO & PICALL programmers. As sold in Kits K96 K117 & K119. Since I make them they are excellent beginners programmers. Well supported. Beginners buy Kit 81 or Kit 119 and use with the FREEWARE P16PRO Lite to program PIC16F84 and 16F84A.
• 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. dontronics.com Hardware and software. Very well supported. For beginners and advanced users.
• Newfound Electronics. For experienced users. Good PIC technical information & links.
• picflash PIC programmers.
• Parallax PIC Programmers Under new management Tech-Tools. 1/99.
•  Free C compiler for the 16x84. htsoft.com. april 2000
• Free C compiler. bkhd.com To 1K. Handles 14 & 16 bit PICs too.
• Incircuit emulators & programmers.
• EPIC Programmer Works on NT. (Too many add-ons!)
• Pekka Titamaki Has non-firmware David Tait 16C5x programmer corrected.
• Tutorial on PIC16C84 programming. Jim Brown.
• Bob Blicks 16F84 programmer
• Design for a PIC programmer.
• Jens Madsen 16C84 programmers. Free, minimum components. But no support now. (You get what you pay for.)

  Microchip and more PIC sites

• Microchip Web Site PIC chip manufacturer.
• Microchip Web Site Application Notes There are some excellent & well kept sites dealing with PIC's:
• Microchip Net Resources. Excellent, up-to-date, very comprehensive reference site.
• Program PICs in BASIC.
• Don McKenzie. A must visit-site.
• 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
• PicnPoke. Excellent way to learn PICs.
• The Hardware Book
• Solid maths and theory using PICs. Scott Dattalo.
• Tom McGahee.  free code. 3x4 keypad; LCD fonts and others.
• phanderson.com PIC interfacing, technical use and much more.
• pic tutorial. dale.
• Melabs. PIC development Tools & proto PCB's.
•  Prototype PCBs for PIC and other uC's.
• GNUPIC Archive. Collection of freeware PIC Development tools.
• ftp site for PIC software published by Everyday Practical Electronics
• USTR.NET PIC AVR 8051.
• Home of Easy PIC'n book.
• Andrew Kunz
• Home of Myke Predko's PIC book.
• Randy PIC Expert!

  Atmel, Scenix, 80xx, 68HCxx

• Atmel. Breathing new life into the 80xx.
• Bascom compilers
• AVR Links and information. fleury
• Atmel. Stelios Cellar. Atmel website. many AVR links.
• Claus Kuhnel There is an Atmel discussion group which you can join by logging onto
• eGroups/list/avr
• avr-forum.com Enter the AVR webring here.
• Scenix Net Resources. Over 100 links, programmers, tools.
• Jan Axelson ,the US magazine columnist who has written a book on the 80xx family and The Parallel Port Complete.
• Roger's Embedded Microcontroller Page. 68HC05/11. Plus alot of other info.
• Embedded Micro Software

  PC Upgrading & PC Information, Software

  There is a massive amount of PC information on these sites>

•  ZIP drive failure problems. You should not use a ZIP drive as backup for your data. In 4/2000 my ZIP drive failed and I could not read from it. This website explains the problem.
• System Optimisation web site.
• Download entire website.
• James Newton. Personal Computers. Links
• Tom's Hardware Guide.
• Build your own PC.
• Windows Icon Extractor/viewer
• Build a Computer.
• PC Mechanic.
• CAN Controller Area Network
• GhostScript for Post Script printers
• fat16 information
• fat32 information
• Microsoft on fat, long filenames etc.
• Tutorial short & long filenames

  Your PC from hackers when you logon

• zonelabs.com    download the software.
• Shields Up. Test your site against hackers. Gibson research.
•  webtrends.net Must visit site for web information. Test your site security.

  Parallel Port Information

• James Newton. Detailed parallel port info. Links. A must visit site.
• Jan Axelson ,the US magazine columnist who has written a book 'The Parallel Port Complete'.
• beyondlogic.org Interfacing to a PC. MUST READ SITE PARALLEL/SERIAL PORTS LCDs.
• ualberta. ftp download site

          

  General Electronic - some are big

• Circuitonline.com Directory, services & resource guide for engineers in semiconductor industry.
• General engineering & microcontroller site.
• sci.electronics.repair FAQ. Alot of info here. Lasers. Sam Goldwasser.
• Index of semiconductor companies. Technical & marketing info.
• Electronic Engineers Toolbox. Alot of information here.
• Don Roy/Sony Remote Control codes. FirstBOT Robot Home
• Electrical Engineering Archives. U Wash.

  Stepper Motors

• 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.

  Thermoelectric Devices, Peltier Modules, Solar, Pressure Sensors

   

• Melcor, Peltier Module manufacturer. Free design software. Alot of information.
• Marlow, Peltier Module manufacturer. Also alot of information.
• Kryotherm, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• yessolar.com
• cleanenergy
• photon
• SenSym.com Request the "Solid-State Pressure Sensors Handbook"
• Omega.com Request the "The Pressure, Strain, and Force Handbook"

  Laser light shows

• pangolin.com
• laser-fx.com.
• alnitak7
• laserfantasy.com.
• Laser Productions

  Galvanometer scanners sites:

• genscan.com
• camtech.com

  Batteries

• Duracell
• Varta
• Lecture & practical notes

  Information & code dealing with the most common LCD controller IC's.

• Interfacing the PC to LCDs, parallel and serial ports. A must visit site.
• ee-compendium. Like our Kit 134.
• More LCD Information. pouweha
• LCD Info & Data Sheets. nikocity.de
• Graphics LCD info. LCD links.

  LCD's

• Mizu
• Hantronix
• Microversal
• Samsung

  CCD Cameras

• CCD cookbook camera page. ~rberry
• Supercircuits scx.com
• How CCD cameras work. ccd.zip 415KB. zipped pdf file.

• Huge lists & links to amateur radio, pirate radio as well as blues music.
• PLL list, power tweaks. Bit outdated.
•  Motorola PLL chips and Application Notes. MC145170 PSpice Modelling Kit
• Digital PLL Design
• Ham radio & ham links. (Nice world clock you can download.)
• Mobile phone jamming
• UK Ham radio & pirate radio.

  W3.x, W9x software sources

• Winsite.com Specialty archive. W3.xx, W9x, W NT
• For the latest Net software. Reviews of the software & links to get it. Stroud. Has W3.1 software.
• Bob Cerelli W95/98 huge collection software & hints
• Another huge collection of Windows software Windows95.com, winfiles.com
• Windows 9x software conitech.com
• Windows 9x software download.com
• Get latest Win32S for W3.11 plus much more about explanation about it. Download it from here direct from Microsoft.
• shareware.com
• Software drivers. mrdriver.com
• software drivers. driverguide.com
• Nice freeware viewer
• Internet Navigator. Lots of interesting stuff.
• Filemon & regmon W98 utilities

   Search Engines

   

• copernic.com  Searches about 15 search engines.
• alltheweb.com
• DirectHit.com
• go.com
• google.com
• northernlights.com
• profusion.com
• savvysearch.com
• snap.com
• about.com
• AshJeeves.com
• brittanica.com
• dogpile.com
• Alta Vista
• all 4 one meta search
• Bigfoot email address finder
• comfind Business based.
• dejanews Usenet old message search.
• highway61.com meta search
• hotbot
• excite
• Four 11 email & phone address finder
• Internet@ddress.finder email address finder
• liszt.com email discussion groups.
• Lycos
• LookupUSA.com98 million phones look-up
• Open Text
• metacrawler meta search
• Magellan. mckinley.com
• reference.com Usenet search.
• Starting Point
• webcrawler
• whatsnew.com
• websitepromote.com Promote your web site.
• Yahoo
• For exhaustive lists of every Search Engine & Web Directory see Yahoo Web Directories ,and Search Engines.

  Some Interesting Web Pages

• What bored Silicon Valley Engineers do - 1.
• and 2
• distributed.net The fastest computer on earth
• Buy software on the net.
• http://www.pulver.com/
• 1000's of links. Mark Nowak.

• http://www.mchip.com/
  
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