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Links to useful, informative or bizarre Web pages:
Comic Strips
Maker Sites and Forums
Geek Things
Electronics
- KiCAD PCB design
- Eagle CAD (free download, limited version for hobbyists)
- QCAD 2D CAD for Windows, Linux and Mac
- DipTrace, another PCB design tool
- FreePCB, an Open Source PCB design tool for Windows
- Osmond PCB CAD for Mac OS
- Front Panel Express Europe
- IC Die Photography by William Blair
- FPGA for Fun
- FPGA Arcade
- Conrad Hoffman including the Mini Metrology Lab
- Runaway Brainz
- Todd Fun by Todd Harrison
- ELM by ChaN
- Mitxela's Projects
- Matt Evans' Projects Page
- Unimplemented Trap Adventures in Hardware and Software
- Karen's Corner by Karen Orton
- Waiting for Friday weekend electronics engineering
- Entertaining Hacks
- Shed Lab Electronics, Microcontrollers, Programming, Sheds...
- Photons, Electrons, and Dirt, by Glen Akins
- Bald Engineer electronics stuff for enginerds
- Homebrew CPU Ring
- TIM, a relay computer
- Homebrew CPU by Bill Buzbee
- Big Mess o' Wires by Steve Chamberlin. Originally a homebrew CPU, now Apple ][ retrocomputing
- Blondihacks by Quinn Dunki
- Embedded Eric
- Reading Jim Williams by Kent Lundberg
- Emperor of Test Equipment
- Ken Schirriff's Blog
- Jeff Tranter's Blog
- Mr. Modemhead multimeter repairs
- Buttons, Switches, Knobs & Lights oscilloscope repairs
- MyCPU Project
- Grant Searle's Homebuilt ZX80
- Grant Searle's Compukit UK101 on an FPGA
- Ultim809, Matt Sarnoff's homebrew 6809 computer
- Mike's Electric Stuff by Mike Harrison, with all sorts of Nixie tubes
- Philbrick Archive, Op-Amp pioneer George A. Philbrick
- British Amateur Electronics Club
- Small Battery Company
- The Shure SM58 Microphone
- Easy Reflow, build your own solder reflow oven
- Retroleum
- All Transistors transistor data and equivalents search
- Electronic Test Equipment Model Numbers with some photos
- Connector Identification
- Schematics For Free
- Virtual Ground Circuits useful circuits for splitting op-amp power rails
- DIY Layout Creator, a stripboard circuit layout tool
Modular Synthesisers
Microcontrollers
Robotics
Automata
Software
- memtest86, A Stand-alone Memory Diagnostic
- Memtest86+, An Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool
- POV-Ray, The Persistence of Vision Raytracer
- Mozilla, home of the Firefox browser
- Opera Web Browser
- PuTTY, A Free Telnet/SSH Client
- TeraTerm, a serial terminal emulator
- RealTerm, a serial terminal emulator for Windows
- Subversion version control system
- Git version control system
- IrfanView Image Viewer for Windows
- NetStumbler WiFi detection tool for Windows and Windows CE
- Kismet WiFi detection tool for Linux and MacOS
- The Wireshark Network Analyzer
- RealVNC remote desktop software
- TightVNC remote desktop software for Windows
- VideoLAN, home of the VLC Media Player
- Clonezilla, Open Source disk cloning and imaging tool
- Audacity, Open Source and cross-platform audio software
- Lightworks, cross-platform video editing package
- Nels Anderson's Mahjongg for MS-DOS and EGA
- Autostitch photo panorama stitching software
- Cover Your Tracks, find out how unique and trackable your browser is
Networking
Genealogy
Books and Publishers
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Maps
Museums
- Science Museum in London (my photos from 2016)
- Science and Industry Museum in Manchester
- Science and Media Museum in Bradford
- National Railway Museum in York
- Locomotion in Shildon
- STEAM Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon
- Discovery Museum in Newcastle
- Museum of London
- The Design Museum Kensington High Street, London (my photos from 2017)
- Bletchley Park
- The National Museum of Computing
- Centre for Computing History in Cambridge
- Museum of Computing in Swindon (my photos from January 2020)
- Jim Austin's Computer Collection
- The Analog Computer Museum
- Internal Fire Museum of Power
- Kempton Steam Museum historic pumping station in London
- Purbeck Radar
- Penley Radar Archives
- Pye Museum in Cambridge
- Radar Museum at Bawdsey, Suffolk (my photos from 2014)
- Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) Museum, Lyneham, Wiltshire
- Museum of Global Communication, Porthcurno, Cornwall
- Museum of Technology Spalding, Lincolnshire
- Connected Earth museum of communication
at Amberley Museum, near Arundel, West Sussex
- Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker
- The Computer Church, formerly Early Computers
Bristol and South Gloucestershire Stuff
Bristol and Bath Events
- Bristol Light Festival 31st January-9th February 2025
- Bristol Jack in the Green (and also
here) 3rd May 2025
- Bristol Model Railway Exhibition 2nd-4th May 2025
- Bath Digital Festival, 13th-15th May 2025
- Stoke Gifford Annual Village Fete and Dog Show 26th May 2025
- Little Stoke Park Car Boot Sales, 31st May, 28th June, 30th August, 27th September 2025. 9:30-12:30
- Bristol Volksfest 6th-8th June 2025
- Bristol Pride 28th June-13th July 2025
- Frenchay Flower Show 12th July 2025
- Bristol Harbour Festival 18th-20th July 2025
- Bristol International Balloon Fiesta 8th-10th August 2025
- Fishponds Horticultural Show 9th August 2025
- Bristol Model Engineers Annual Exhibition -- when?
- Bristol Microcar Club Rally when? at Sweets Tea Rooms
- Bristol Open Doors Day when? 2025 (now a biennial event)
- Bristol & South Gloucestershire Stationary Engine Club Vintage Rally & Tractor Event, 7th September, Frog Lane Farm, Woodside Road, Coalpit Heath, BS36 2QT
- South Gloucestershire Heritage Open Days 12th-21st September 2025
- Docks Heritage Weekend when?
- BTF+ The Bristol Festival of Tech, Creativity and Culture 6th-11th October 2025
- Record Fair at the Bristol Beacon 1st February, 5th April, 7th June 2025
- An Adventure In Technology
National Events
Web-Museums
Technical Specifications and Info
Engineering
Fonts and Typography
Well, I like them, anyway...
Bizarre
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