EE80T: Modern Electronic Technology and How it works
EE80T Links
Here is my somewhat idiosyncratic set of interesting/useful links to web based resources. If you find something that might be of general interest and relevant to this class do not hesitate to email the link to me. The broken links are noted but they have not been removed yet as I am investigating further. If you happen to notice that any of the ones noted as broken are now working or if any of the others are broken, please let me know.
Problem Solving
What are we thinking when we (try to) solve problems? The latest brain research: stay loose...
Historical Links
Electricity-By Dave Barry
Smithsonian: Inventors and Scientists
Tommy's History of "Western Technology"
Sam's Telecoms History Page Links Telephones, Telegraphs
Letter From Benjamin Franklin-Regarding Electrocuting Turkeys
The Telegraph Office-Everything Telegraphic, people who collect telegraph keys?
Radio History Museum-The World of Wireless
Radar World
Radar: All-Seeing Eye that Doomed the Enemy From NEWSWEEK’s issue dated
Aug. 20, 1945
Transistorized!-The History of the Invention of the Transistor
The Transistor Museum- People who collect old transistors?!? You bet! History and more.
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA, go visit, everything from the Abacus to Super Computers
Evolution of the Computer - IBM Slide Show-at the Computer Museum of America, other good stuff here too.
Obsolete Technology Website - Old Computers etc.
Technology Links
Electronic Kits-Omnitron Electronics Source for some of the electronic kits demonstrated in class.
Samuel M. Goldwasser's Bookmarks An incredible list of links for those of you who want to tinker.
How to build a one tube regenerative Radio
General Electrics Lighting FAQs Lots of useful information about various lighting alternatives.
Voltage and Frequency World Map Traveling? Ths map shows you the voltage and frequencies used by power systems around the world.
Engineering Rock and Roll: A Casual Introduction to Signal Processing
Build a Radio Using some Wire and a Rusty Razor Blade and another on the same topic here
Battery Capacity Comparisons - which should you really choose? Broken...
Fun With a Microwave-heed the disclaimer, go buy a junker if you want to try any of this...be safe. Also Broken
The Connected Earth-How Communications Shapes the World
The Ultimate Memory Guide-Kingston Technologies excellent guide to computer memory
Tutorial Links
Engineering Uncovered-Course Textbook Website
Electricity Misconceptions in Text books
Electricity and Magnetism Java based tutorials
Fundamentals of Electricity - Electronics 101 A good place to go for some technical enlightenment, good explanations at the level of this class. Unfortunately currently off-line due to financial problems, if you notice that this site has come back up please let me know.
Electricity Tutorial-The Water Model
Waveforms composed of Sine Waves
these are the links demonstrated in lecture
Digital Logic-If you're confused this should help you see how these work, if your not it is still cool.
Stuff you can Make!
Some sources of electronic kits if you want to build some gizmos:
Elenco http://www.elenco.com/
Altairkit.com Build your self an authentic reproduction of the first PC, the Altair. But why?
Build the Hypnocube don't ask why...
Build your own Solar Cell-A kit you can buy to make a solar cell, I think Santa Cruz Electronics has something similar.
Make Semiconductors in your Oven at Home-Build a Solar Cell from inexpensive material you can scrounge. Lot of other cool stuff on this site as well.
or Books and Magazines
Make Magazine - Not just electronics, all sorts of stuff to make
Nuts and Volts Magazine - All sorts of hobyist level electronics projects and ideas
A First Lab in Circuits and Electronics (Paperback)
by Yannis Tsividis
Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius (Paperback)
by Dave Cutcher
The entire Evil Genius Series has some pretty fun construction project books too.
