An excellent cork cannon made with a $15 irrigation system valve (24VDC); must be used only with great caution and supervision. We're working on a timer circuit using an MM74C926 counter IC in an effort to measure the velocity of a cork in the barrel.
(since April 1st, 2011)
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Catalog Choice
Graphics Tools
Photo Resources
- http://www.animoto.com
- http://www.jalbum.net
- http://www.fotoplayer.com
- http://www.heliconsoft.com/
- http://www.lrbportfolio.com
- http://www.slideshowpro.net
- http://www.autopano.net/en/
- http://www.hdrlabs.com/news/index.php
- http://www.niksoftware.com
- http://www.simpleviewer.net/tiltviewer/app/
- http://www.cooliris.com/
- http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/
- http://www.blurb.com
- http://www.gigapan.org
- http://photosynth.net
- http://www.hdrsoft.com
Microcontroller Fest
- http://designsomething.org/
- http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3891
- http://www.olimex.com/dev/pdf/PIC/PIC-WEB.pdf
- http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=TWR-MCF51CN-KIT
- http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/docs/picaxe_manual1.pdf
- http://www.arduino.cc/
- http://www.beagleboard.org
Frogs
- http://amphibianrescue.com/wordpress/
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7597125.stm
- http://www.amphibianark.org/
- http://www.frogindia.org/index.htm
- http://www.mos.org/visitor_info/museum_news/press_releases&d=3124
- http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/frogs-the-thin-green-line/video-full-episode/4882/
Botany, Carl L. Wilson
Must have reference for your library
Conferences of Interest 2009
My Blog List
Interesting Links
- http://www-math.mit.edu/daimp/
- http://www.archive.org
- http://www.boxx-ocean-racing.com/
- http://www.bugguide.net
- http://www.darkroastedblend.com
- http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org
- http://www.fluwikie.com
- http://www.haltadefinizione.com/en/
- http://www.jeffdunham.com/
- http://www.philipjohnsonglasshouse.org
- http://www.swivel.com
- http://www.teamorca.org/eyeinthesea.htm
- http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/
We Recommend
- http://azzarellogroup.com/
- http://connollylawoffices.com/
- http://readyhome.tumblr.com/
- http://rodhomesolutions.com
- http://web.mit.edu/museum/
- http://www.adamezra.com/
- http://www.art21.org/
- http://www.benjaminmccormick.com/
- http://www.box.net
- http://www.carepages.com
- http://www.ceiva.com/
- http://www.charlesaddams.com/
- http://www.chias.org
- http://www.cppit.com/index.html
- http://www.crimsonsailingacademy.com
- http://www.ebtaylorphotography.com/index.html
- http://www.edgewiseskitunes.com/
- http://www.esicotriton.com/
- http://www.flavors.me
- http://www.forrestrodts.com/index.html
- http://www.google.com/analytics
- http://www.hnsa.org/ships/trieste.htm
- http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=128
- http://www.jefflippe.com/
- http://www.keeganphoto.com/
- http://www.littleharborphotography.com
- http://www.marbleheadfestival.org/
- http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=2&productNr=25420
- http://www.nomosindustries.com/
- http://www.northcountryflowers.com
- http://www.pbs.org/art21/
- http://www.quitsakikidesigns.com
- http://www.racestocksports.com
- http://www.seeedstudio.com/
- http://www.simplebooklet.com
- http://www.techcrunch.com
- http://www.tetragenetics.com/
- http://www.tradewindsantiques.com/
- http://www.tweetdeck.com
- http://www.tzo.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.us.playstation.com/ratchetandclank/tools_of_destruction.html
- http://www.ussalbacore.org/index.html
- http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
- http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/index.htm
- http://www.wmvy.com
- http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1983/Lafitte-Lafitte-44-1948393/MA/United-States
What We're Investigating
- http://cloudprint.hpl.hp.com/
- http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/
- http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page
- http://www.axigen.com/mail-server/free/
- http://www.cadsoft.de/info.htm
- http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
- http://www.dd-wrt.com
- http://www.dopplr.com
- http://www.drupal.org
- http://www.eol.org/index
- http://www.eucalyptus.com/
- http://www.hakia.com
- http://www.kiva.org
- http://www.magneticsensors.com/
- http://www.mediawiki.org
- http://www.mibbit.com
- http://www.pingg.com
- http://www.sump.org/projects/analyzer/
- http://www.TVersity.com
- http://www.twiki.org
- http://www.virtualbox.org/
- http://www.vu1corporation.com/
- http://www.wavemaker.com
- https://acrobat.com/
Technologies to Prototype
- ADI AD620 Instrumentation Amp
- Allegro A3967 bipolar stepper motor controller
- Allegro ACS754CB Hall effect current sensor-50 amps
- Cypress CY3269N Lighting Kit
- Honeywell HMC1021S Magnetic Sensor
- IGBT's
- MAXIM DS1921G iButton
- MAXIM MAX26BCNG+ Filter
- MAXIM MAX454 Video Mux IC
- MICROCHIP TC1121CPA DC-DC Converter
- NXP PCF8591PN ADC
- XR2206 Signal Generator IC
Current ROV Research
- Bulgin IP68 Waterproof Connectors
- Fiber optic links
- Gyroscope (ADI)
- Lumileds 58lm white LED for underwater lighting
- Stamp 2 Microcontroller BSP24 with I2C support
ROV Links
HP Museum Sites
Suppliers
- http://ultimatepcb.com/
- http://www.airinc.net/
- http://www.boltdepot.com
- http://www.cleardomes.com/
- http://www.digikey.com
- http://www.epboard.com/
- http://www.expresspcb.com
- http://www.futurlec.com
- http://www.mouser.com/
- http://www.newark.com
- http://www.roboteq.com
- http://www.sparkfun.com
- http://www.supercircuits.com
- http://www.tapplastics.com/
Lab Tools
- Agilent 1242A Multimeter
- EasySync Stingray PC Scope
- Heathkit VTVM
- Tek 465 Oscilloscope
- Tenma 72-7730 Multimeter
- TENMA LCR Meter
- USB Logic Analyzer
Design Tools
- DipTrace
- Logisim
- NI Multisim (ADI)
- SketchUp (Google)
Civil War Web Resources
Civil War Reading
- 15th Mass Vol Infantry Regiment, Ford
- A World on Fire, Foreman
- A. Lincoln, White
- April 1865, Winik
- Battle Cry of Freedom, McPherson
- Battle of White Sulphur Springs, Wittenberg
- Battle Tactics of the Civil War, Griffith
- Campaigns for Vicksburg, Dougherty
- Chancellorsville, Sears
- Charles Sumner and the comming of the Civil War, Donald
- Cold Harbor, Rhea
- Confederate Reckoning, McCurry
- Empire of the Summer Moon, Gynne
- Fields of Blood, Shea
- Fighting for the Confederacy, Gallagher
- Fort Warren ,Schmidt
- General Lee's Army, Glatthaar
- Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions, Wittenberg
- Gettysburg, Sears
- Grant, Memoirs and Selected Letters, LOA
- Gray Fox, Davis
- How the North Won, Hattaway & Jones
- In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee, Rhea & Heisey
- In the Trenches at Petersburg, Hess
- Jefferson Davis, American
- Killer Angels, Shaara
- Landscape Turned Red, Sears
- Lincoln and his Admirals, Symonds
- Lincoln and McClellan, Waugh
- Lincoln in New Orleans, Campanella
- Lincoln's Darkest Year, Marvel
- Lincoln's Flying Spies, Jarrow
- Longstreet, Wert
- Manhunt, Swanson
- Master of War, Bobrick
- Meade of Gettysburg, Cleaves
- Men of Fire, Hurst
- No Quarter, Slotkin
- Nothing Like It in the World, Ambrose
- Perryville, Noe
- Plenty of Blame to go Around, Wittenberg
- President Lincoln, Miller
- Reading the Man, Pryor
- Reconstruction, Foner
- Retreat from Gettysburg, Brown
- Return to Bull Run, Hennessy
- Richmond Burning, Lankford
- Robert E Lee, and the Fall of the Confederacy, Rafuse
- Robert E. Lee, Thomas
- Second Manassas, Patchan
- Shenandoah, Cozzens
- Shiloh 1862, Groom
- Southern Storm, Trudeau
- Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine, Desjardin
- Stonewall Jackson, Robertson
- Team of Rivals, Goodwin
- That Devil Forrest, Wyeth
- The Artillery Service, Tidball
- The Assassin's Accomplice, Larson
- The Battle of Brandy Station, Wittenberg
- The Battle of the Wilderness, Rhea
- The Fiery Trial, Foner
- The Gettysburg Gospell, Boritt
- The Grand Design, Stoker
- The Last Lincoln Conspirator, Jampoler
- The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators, Steers
- The Mechanical Fuze...., McCaul
- The Shiloh Campaign, Woodworth
- The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, Cozzens
- The Union War, Gallagher
- This Mighty Scourge, McPherson
- This Republic of Suffering, Faust
- Tried by War, McPherson
- Twilight at Little Round Top, LaFantasie
- U.S. Grant, Waugh
- Vicksburg 1863, Groom
- War like the ThunderBOLT, Bonds
- War on the Waters, McPherson
- Wolf of the Deep, Fox
Other Reading
- Devil in the White City, Larson
- Frogs of Panama, Woodhams (blurb.com)
- Physics of the Impossible, Kaku
- Sea of Thunder, Thomas
- Seven Miles Down, Piccard & Dietz
- The Black Swan, Taleb
- The Exceptional Presenter, Koegel
- The Frogs and Toads of North America, Elliott, Gerhardt, Davidson
- The Ghost Map, Johnson
- The Path Between the Seas, McCullough
- Thunderstruck, Larson
- Unconventional Success, Swensen
References
- A Field Guide to Tiger Beetles, Pearson
- Build Your Own Underwater Robot, Bohm & Jensen
- Fender Bassman 5F6-A, Kuehnel
- Guitar Amplifier Preamps, Kuehnel
- Op Amp Handbook, ADI
- Projects with Stamp Microcontroller, Williams
- RCA Receiving Tube Manual, 1970