We’ll use this location to put links to some of our favorite sites and online training. Please post your favorites so we can add them as well!
Electronics Sites:
Adafruit™ Adafruit™ offers a wide range of electronic project components as well as complete documentation and Arduino™ Code and libraries to have your project up and running in minutes!
BangGood™ Note: BangGood’s customer service policy varies. They would rather compensate you half the price of your purchase for items that are defective vice send you a replacement.
Sparkfun™ brings advanced electronic components and sensors for your robot or IoT project.
Online Training and Information:
Blender™ for Noobs – Not surprisingly, learn about Blender™
Canned Mushrooms YouTube Channel – Jason Welsh posts tutorials on Blender™, Unity™, Maya™ and apparently whatever else is interesting to him
Creative Cow™ – All manner of tutorials on animation and video production)
EducateTube – Kind of like Instructables™….WARNING: Some of this projects look to be VERY dangerous as safety seems to be an afterthought in some cases…choose wisely
Instructables™ – Pretty much any project you can think of is on this site somewhere. Caution: if the project looks dangerous that means it probably IS dangerous…you have been warned
Thingiverse™ – Download from over a MILLION objects for ready-made 3D printing, STL files for CNC or Laser Engraving!
Let’s Make It!™ – Learn about Arduino™ and electronics in general
tutor4u – Tutorials on Blender™, Inkscape™, GIMP™ and web programming
TinkerCad™ – great resource for designing shapes for 3D print and Electronic breadboarding for projects. ALL AGES!