Resources

This serves as a brain dump of good resources for various disciplines.

Electronics

Finding Components

When you are specifying components for a design, it can sometimes be difficult to find that last little part,

Digikey Greasemonkey Script

A while back, Ben pointed me to a greasemonkey script for Digikey. It lets you sort products by price! Anyway, seems that the author Sajid Sadi as disappeared off the net, so I've mirrored it here (it's Creative Commons Share Alike).

Manufacturers

  • Texas Instruments
  • Maxim Semiconductor
  • Linear Technologies

    Distributors

  • Digikey
  • Mouser
  • Future

    Books

  • Electronics for Inventors - excellent introductory text to everything electrical engineering

    Mechanical Bits

    Manufacturers

  • WM Berg - gears
  • Boston Gear

    Distributors

  • McMaster-Carr
  • MSC
  • Northern Tools
  • Grainger
  • Small Parts Inc.

    Books

  • Machinary's Handbook - Absolute bible of mechanical design

    Computer Vision

    Computer Vision Books

  • Modern Computer Vision David Forsyth
  • Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision Richard Hartley

    Color

  • Interaction of Color Joseph Albers
  • Principles of Color Design Wucius Wong
  • Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing Margaret Livingstone

    Machine Learning

  • Pattern Classification Duda
  • Machine Learning a Modern Approach Mitchell

    Neuroscience

  • Theoretical Neuroscience Dayan and Abbott
  • Methods in Insect Sensory Neuroscience
  • Animal Eyes
  • Introduction to Neuroscience

    Optics

    Suppliers

  • Edmund Optical
  • Thor Labs
  • Melles Griot
  • Anchor Optics - Edmund Optical's surplus store
  • Surplus Shed - Surplus optics
  • Fresneltech - Cheap plastic fresnel lenses and lens arrays

    Resources

  • Optics Eugene Hecht
  • Optical System Design
  • Modern Lens Design
  • Edmunds Pamphlets from the 50s and 60s, very cool!
  • ZEMAX raytracing software