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News

• Embedded World

Blogs and eZines

• Frankly Built and Emily the Engineer
• Tool Guyd
• Embedded World
• Teach Me Micro
• Ikea Hackers
• Circuit.io Blog
• n-o-d-e.net
• Make Use of Technology Simplified
• Maker Advisor

Magazines

• Make Magazine

Enthusiast Sites

• Dronebot Workshop
• Lukas Pomykal Anycubic Kossell 3D printer Upgrades and Software configuration
• Droid builders R2D2 Builders
• Open Electronics

Makers

• Blake McFarland Sculpture and Art installations

Sell Your Stuff

• Tindle Awesome things directly from makers (Electronics and projects).
• Etsy Handmade, vintage and Custom
• eBay The worlds marketplace
• CrateJoy Marketplace helps subscription box businesses find subscribers in their niche.
• iCraft Gifts Handmade-only Marketplace is for true artists and crafters.
• IndiCart Community of Independent Shops
• Folksy A place to buy and sell handcrafted or designed work from UK designer-makers.

Projects and plans

• Instructables
• Random Nerd Tutorials
• Volos Projects - YouTube Channel about MCU and Display projects
• ESPHome ESP8266/ESP32 Home Automation system
• Thingverse 3D models repository
• April Wilkerson
• Electronics Lab
• Hackaday
• Maker.Pro

Spec Sheets and Info

• SB Components SB MCU Information
• LCD Wiki - Specs of many commonly used LCD display modules
• Pighixxx Pin-outs and circuits
• ESP32 Net
• SB Components Learning Page

Repairing Stuff

• Repair Wiki Louis Rossmann's repair wiki

Wiki Pages

• ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• Python Programming Language
• WikiHow "the most trusted how-to site on the internet"

Calculators and Utilities

• Engineering Toolbox Countless calculators and tables with useful information for engineers and makers alike
• Time and Date Calculators and utilities for working with dates and times.
• 66 Pacific Electronic and RF Calculators
• Cell Mapper Locate Cell towers on maps to calculate coverage
• World Time Buddy Time zone conversion
• MPG Calculator Enter miles and Litres and get MPG etc.

Standards Organisations and Bodys

• MIPI Alliance Interface specifications for mobile, automotive, IoT and more-
• British Polymer Clay Guild
• GTMA UK Manufacturing trade association
• STEM Resources UK
• The Crafts Council
• Creative Commons Licensing for sharing

Maker Spaces and Clubs

• Hackspace UK Main site
• Fab Lab Foundation UK Main site
• Essex Hackspace Hockley
• British Tech Network

Electronics tutorials

• AOGFB An Online Guide for Beginners
• The Electronics Club A lot of good advice for newcomers to electronics projects
• Electronics Hobbyist
• Graham Knott’s Website electronics teacher in Cambridge
• The Institution of Engineering and Technology Browse issues of E&T Education magazine
• The North Carolina State University Electronics Tutorial good explanations of various electronics topics.
• Williamson Labs Electronics Tutorial This site provides explanations of basic electronics con-cepts with good illustrations and fun animations.

Microcontrollers

• ESP32 Display Code
• TTGO T-Display Projects
• Instructables TTGO T-Display
• Github Xinyuan-LilyGO
• Micropython
• Pinouts The Pinouts Book

Events

• Makers Central Show

Watch Making

• Grail Watch Reference

OpenSource

• Mac Open Web A collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web.
• FlatHub The Linux App Store

Directories

• The Knowledge Online TV and Film suppliers listing
• Kay's TV and Film suppliers listing
• 4rfv TV and Film suppliers listing
• The Makers Directory
• The Crafts Council Directory
• The Heritage Crafts Makers Directory
• Make Southwest Directory

Coding

General Programming

• Arjan Codes
• Free Code Camp
• Stack Overflow Coder forums and assistance
• Github The code repository
• Regexr an online tool to learn, build, and test Regular Expressions.

Python

• Django Project
• Turbo Gears
• Web2Py
• Cherry Py
• PoCoo Flask
• Tutorials Tonight Python tutorials for beginners (ultimate guide)
• Jupyter Interactive Python programming environment
• The Hitchhikers Guide to Python

Arduino

• Arduino - Getting Started

C derivatives

• Learn C

HTML5/CSS

• Semantic UI
• Get Bootstrap
• Foundation Zurb
• Get UI kit
• 960 grid system
• Get Skeleton
• Less Framework
• Yaml
• Helium
• Metro UI
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Lime Elements
• Montage JS
• Create JS

Javascript

• jQuery
• Prototype JS
• Yahoo UI library
• Backbone JS
• Underscore JS
• Dojo Toolkit
• Angular JS
• Ember JS

Ruby

• Ruby on rails
• Sinatra Ruby
• Ramaze
• Ruby Forge Halcyon
• Padrino Ruby

PHP

• Zend Framework
• Symfony
• Cake PHP
• Codeigniter
• Laravel
• Phalcon PHP
• Sensio Labs Silex
• Slim Framework
• Yii Framework
• Fuel PHP

Perl

• Catalyst Framework
• Use Gantry
• Mojolicious
• Perl dancer

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET

Java

• Spring
• Vaadin
• GWT
• Hibernate
• Play Framework

Server side Javascript

• NodeJS
• Meteor

NoSQL databases

• MongoDB
• CouchDB
• OrientDB
• Redis
• Hyperdex
• Clusterpoint

Relational databases

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• sqLite

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