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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4656612015633125366.post-65554835674946612672008-02-06T01:53:00.000-08:002008-05-22T00:37:53.407-07:00LinksThe Link Subsection is a quick way to list web page links which I recommend. All the links will redirect to different sites. <blockquote>This is often used in the broader context of a topic, i.e. a page about a class project on Mars, might contain a with several links to NASA web resources on Mars, a link to several space observatories, etc.</blockquote> Recommended sites: <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://3dreplicators.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://3dreplicators.com</a> - Tommelise is a bootstrap 3D replicator that you can make with a very few hand tools for about $100-150. Once you've built it you can use it to make ... more or less anything, including another Tommelise</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.reprap.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://blog.reprap.org/</a> - Blog for the RepRap project at www.reprap.org - a project to create an open-source self-copying 3D printer.</li><li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://fab.cba.mit.edu/">The MIT Fab Lab project.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="met nofollow" href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/07/how-to-make-a-surface-mount-soldering-iron/">Making a hot air, surface-mount soldering iron from a desoldering tool.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://home.earthlink.net/~lenyr/zincosc.htm">Making negative resistance simply</a> - a possible way for <a rel="nofollow" class="twikiLink" href="http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRap">RepRap</a> to make electronics. </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.spritesmods.com/?art=inker">How to drive inkjet printheads</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theoscarproject.org/">OScar</a> the open-source car. </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://openprosthetics.org/">The Open Prosthetics Project</a> - these folk are designing new and useful prosthetics and giving the desgin plans away for free! </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wiring.org.co/">Wiring</a> - Wiring is an open source programming environment and electronics i/o board for exploring the electronic arts, tangible media, teaching and learning computer programming and prototyping with electronics. </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.arduino.cc/">Arduino</a> is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, itself built on Processing </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://processing.org/">Processing</a> - Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11632-modified-ink-printer-churns-out-electronic-circuits.html">Printing electronics</a>. </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www1.tux-is-alive.com/">Tux Droid</a> - A wireless robotic penguin intended as a toy and a way of interacting with your computer. </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mechmate.com/index.html">MechMate</a> - A set of plans to build a large-scale (~2 meter x 3 meter) cnc router, to cut plywood sheet. The router frame is made from welded steel components. The plans are free to download for noncommercial use. Mechmate apparently started as a set of modifications to the commercial Shopbot CNC router system.   </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://opensourcemachine.org/">The MultiMachine</a>: a humanitarian, open source machine tool project for developing countries. </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/rob/david.html">DAVID Laserscanner</a> A free laserscanner software package. See also <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.splinescan.co.uk/index.php">here</a>. </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Esipper/selfrep/">Moshe Sipper's Artificial Self-replication page.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://home.att.net/%7Ecastleisland/links.htm">The Worldwide Rapid Prototyping Directory.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/9914/Manufacturing-base-keeps-on-shrinking.aspx">Article on microfactories</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ennex.com/%7Efabbers/">fabbers.com - Digital Fabrication Portal.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Emmoses152/">Matt Moses' Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines pages.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.adciv.org/">The AdCiv site</a>, which is dedicated to the study of the post-scarcity age. </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://dragonfly.tam.cornell.edu/~pesavent/jvn.html">A Universal Constructor made from cellular automata by Renato Nobili and Umberto Pesavento.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/selfRepNATO.html">Ralph Merkle's work on Self replicating systems and low cost manufacturing.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/">NASA and the Universal Constructor: Advanced Automation for Space Missions edited by Robert Freitas and William Gilbreath.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ennex.com/%7Efabbers/publish/199600-Brock-PersonalFactory.asp">Brock Hinzmann's paper: The Personal Factory.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT6/Papers/Hall/index.html">Josh Storrs Hall's systems-level analysis of self-replicating systems.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.molecularassembler.com/KSRM.htm">The Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines pages and book by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mpp.no/intro/intro.htm">The Norwegian </a><A href="http://www.materialise.com/materialise/view/en/91879-Metal+Casting.html">Metal Casting</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mpp.no/intro/intro.htm"> Printing Process project.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mae.cornell.edu/ccsl/research/selfrep/">The Cornell self-reproducing robot.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://repstrap.blogspot.com/">Simon McAuliffe's Repstrap project: booting RepRap without an initial RP machine.</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://3dreplicators.com/">The Clanking Replicator Project Site: bootstrapping yourself into very low-cost 3D protopyping technology</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.turbosquid.com/">Turbosquid: a big library of 3D designs for download, some free, some for money.</a> </li> </ul> Please feel free to contact me if you would like to suggest a site to be added. The contact email is noted at the bottom.Johnnoreply@blogger.com