Working with Motors:

1. Our Simple Voltage Amplification Circuit
2. Graphical Resistance Calculator
3. Transistor and Diode basics
4. Our TIP122 voltage amplifier

More interfaces:

Arduino

Arduino Shields

Wiring

Pic microcontroller

Gluion

Phidgets

CUI

Excellent stepper motor:
Stepper Motor

Stepper Driver

Source for premade driver boards:
Futurlec Electronics (Thailand)

Basic Electronics Resources

Tom Igoe – Understanding Electricity

Electronics Calculator (Resistance, Voltage, Amps, etc.)

General Resources

Tom Igoe’s Physical Computing Site

CNMAT Resource Types Page

STEIM (Netherlands Interactivity Center)

Hardware Hacking

Instructables (DIY everything)

Sensors

CNMAT’s Sensor Review Page

CNMAT’s Gestural Controller Page

ITP (Tom Igoe) Sensor Reports – plus implementation code for PIC microcontrollers

Protolab Sensor Tutorial – uses arduino microcontrollers for examples

Light Sensing Resistor Circuit

Actuators

CNMAT’s Actuator Review Page

Interfaces

Tom Igoe – Microcontroller Overview

Arduino

Gluion

MidiTron

Make Controller

I-Cube

JunXion

Arduino

Arduino Main Page

Learning Electronics with the Arduino

Software

Max/MSP

Pd

Arduino / Wiring

Processing

iShowU (documentation software)

Electronics Retailers and Surplus

All Electronics (surplus electronics)

Digikey (retail general electronics)

Electronics Goldmine (surplus electronics)

Futurlec (dc power boards, etc.)

Jameco (retail general electronics)

Mouser (retail general electronics)

Radio Shack (retail general electronics)

SparkFun Electronics (Arduinos Robots)

Tanner Electronics (local surplus store in Carrolton)