External Resources
Although the main purpose of this wiki is to be a clearinghouse and local repository of skills based information, there are many resources for print books (which some members will prefer) and other knowledge available on the Net. This is our links page to respected sources.
Fellow Wikis
Appropedia is the site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development through the use of sound principles and appropriate technology and the sharing of wisdom and project information. It is a wiki, a type of website which allows anyone to add, remove, or edit content. Registration is encouraged but not required for contributors.
Appropedia has been described as an "appropriate technology wiki," but it is much broader than that - it is a green wiki, and a wiki for all matters of international development and aid. But most importantly, Appropedia is an open site for stakeholders to come together to find, create and improve scalable and adaptable solutions. For more about our motivation, see Appropedia:Mission.
Appropedia began in April of 2006. In the earliest stages it was a collaboration between passionate people from the United States and Australia, and quickly expanded to become a global project.
http://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia
Rejuvepedia is an open source encyclopedia on human rejuvenation. Rejuvepedia, is an effort in the healthy life extension scene and hopes to make unlimited youthfulness, playfulness, health and vitality something that existing and future generations can enjoy in previously unimagined abundance.
http://www.rejuvepedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Print Resources
Shelter Publications’ World Headquarters
We have been publishing high-quality soft cover books for almost 40 years. We operate out of a studio set in a garden in the small Northern California coastal town of Bolinas. We create each book from scratch, often starting with only an author's idea, and do all aspects of book production in-house – editing, design, typesetting, scanning, graphics enhancement, and color corrections. We seem to spend an impossible amount of time with each one, managing only one or at most two books a year.This wasn't a planned strategy, but it seems to have worked: our books have a very long shelf life.
We publish books we believe in. They grow naturally out of our interests, and we do all we can to get the final product out to people in as fine a form as we can, at as low a price as possible. we have never done a cost analysis of a book to determine whether it's publishable or not. We just know that when we're excited about something, we want to tell everyone else about it, and we turn it into a book. Our books are then distributed in bookstores by Publishers Group West (800 788-3123).
Lindsay Publishing
A great technical book house. http://www.lindsaybks.com/prod/index.html
Ria University Press
Publishing house of Ria University. Dr. Charles Tandy developed the RU concept while he was in Malaysia, but he was undecided about its name. While in Malaysia, Dr. Tandy constantly noticed the word “ria” and wondered about its meaning. He found that in Malaysia this very popular word means LIVELY or ALIVE. Dr Tandy is Editor in Chief. publications include:
THE DEATH AND ANTI-DEATH SERIES
THE CULTURAL CLASSICS SERIES
Tools Equipment and Supplies
Electronics
AllElectronics.com Since 1967 we've been offering great prices and great service (and on the web since 1996), we bring you "pre-owned" and new electronic parts from around the world. Because much of it is surplus, and because technology is constantly changing, our stock is always changing.
http://www.allelectronics.com/index.php
Paia.org PAiA is a leader in the development of kit products for the musician and electronic experimenter. The love of technique drives us to create for others, and to share what we have learned. Entertainment, encouragement and education are our goals. Our company both creates its own products, and works with innovative developers in the community to bring a broad spectrum of new products to the market. Great audio electronics kits. Keep those solder skills alive!!
rgbled.org Gerry is a great source for controller boards for full color RGBLEDs and their applications: