Random Links

Job, Presentations, Articles, News...

• My LinkedIn profile.
• Nov 30th, 2005: Cross Pollination & Design (video link) for Stanford's ee380.
  Note: the video link requires Windows Media Player....sorry

Links to Visit Daily

• Astronomy Picture Of The Day
• Dilbert.com....(get your fix here)
• Reddit (gotta love those StartledCats)
• xkcd
• Brennecke's Beach Camera

Humor Links

• sb emails...(the more you watch, the funnier they get)
• joe cartoon....(stupid, but darn funny stuff!)
• EndOfTheWorld...(you've probably seen this....stfu)
• despair.com...(the balancing force to that sickenly sweet motivational shlock)
• Stick Figure Warning Man (Hilarious!)

Other Random Links

• Arena Solutions...(web-based Product Lifecycle Managment...the world needs better PLM software and Arena is one of the best)
• Dahlia Lithwick on Slate..(the best/only supreme court blogger)
• Don Knuth's Diamond Signs...(renowned programmer & author of TAOCP has a great set of pics)
• Jared Veloria's Models...(a friend and coworker of mine models miniatures in zBrusha dn sells the STL files. He's an amazing designer and I'm happy to own a few of his piees.

Code Links

• programming in cocoa....O'Reilly's sweet tutorials
• Python....(a simple to learn, x-platform, object oriented interactive interpretive language)
• NodeBox....Super easy Python graphics on the mac. Gotta love boids!
• openCV....Superb Python image processing.
• My github site (arduino code, etc)

Graphical Stuff

• icon factory....(icons for your desktop)
• MacDesktops.com...(it is what it says it is)
• Maverick Labels...(great short run label maker for professional custom labels)
• Sticker Mule...(great short run label bag tags and other professional custom parts)

Apple / Unix stuff

• Carbon Copy Cloner....(trust it to back up my laptop)
• Omni Group....(home of kick-ass OmniGraffle)
• Colorware (make your mac look blazing cool--this is how I got mine Candy Apple Red)

Favorite Vendors

• Digikey....(electronics, electronics, electronics)
• Mouser....(more analog than digikey, not as much SMT as digikey)
• McMaster...(the mechanical yin to digikey's electronics yang)
• Misumi ... (good source for custom mechanical parts)
• FormLabs...(makers of the awesome Form2 and Form3 3D printer)
• Elegoo...(makers of the LCD based SLA 3D printers)
• Next Wave CNC...(makers of the excellent 3D CNC Shark Routers
• xTool...(makers of the great D1 laser cutter/engraver)
• Vectric VCarve...(because you have to drive your CNC router and time is money.)
• LightBurn...(because you have to drive your xtool D1 laser engraver somehow, and LightBurn makes it much more intuitive.)

Interior Design Type Stuff

• Tech Lighting....(ooooh la la, I just finished a kick-booty install of this stuff.)
• Color Kinetics...(the home of LED lighting and intelligent light control. Yay, Color Wash!)
• Lucifer Lighting

Electronics, Hobbyist, Robotics

• Adafruit ...(great source for electronics hobbyists)
• Sparkfun ...(another good hobbyist vendor site)
• Solarbotics BEAM robotics
• JeeLabs...(a wireless Arduino mesh network...simply done.)
• Tindie...(a shop full of random solutions from fellow hobbyists.)
• Mark III robot store....(excellent beginner kit)
• Acroname....(great supplier of robotics components)
• MurfElectricBikes (Great glossary of terms and links. Thanks for the link, Noah!)
• Evodyne Robotics (Local instructor, builder, maker. Teaches classes to all ages. Build your own robot and learn to program!)

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