| MODELING | ... |
| Blender | powerful free 3d modeling application nurbs and polymesh and everything else |
| Pepakura | simple cheap 3d model pattern maker |
| Milkshape | simple cheap 3d modeler good for low-poly work |
| Secondlife | Virtual world fantastic for prototyping installations and designs |
| Secondlife LSL Reference | reference for linden scripting language, lots of useful cut and paste code |
| Secondlife info by Torley | Torley Linden is one of the makers of secondlife, his youtube videos are fast paced and useful |
| TurboSquid | 3d model repository, some are free most are pay |
| Sketchup | googles free 3d modeling application, has Ruby API built in |
| CODING | ... |
| XAMPP server | My server lives on a 2GB sd card |
| XML reference | like giant russian dolls but for datas |
| Notepad++ | free text editing application with many programming language lexers |
| JEDIT | Powerful little free code editor with lots of plugins |
| Ruby | my coding language of choice, easy to learn, read, and works with sketchup |
| Pragmatic Programmers guide Pleac Zenspider | three resource links to Ruby syntax, I use these often |
| Sketchup Ruby API | info on how to use the builtin Ruby API in Sketchup |
| Ghostscript | free postscript viewer, to view Pointsware output files you need this installed, GSView helps too |
| Imagemagick | free commandline image manipulation application, can be called from Ruby |
| Tesseract | googles free OCR application |
| w3c | world wide web consortium main page, tons of useful stuff for all things standardized web |
| w3c html tags reference | world wide web consortium html tags list and specs on how they all work and are used |
| Bash reference | Bash can do it for you. you just need to know how to ask nice |
| DOS shell command reference | all that stuff you do with your mouse you can do at the commandline, or with a script! |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics format, like postscript but XML based for the web |
| PHP | A server side scripting language for writing web applications, easy to learn and hybridizes into HTML |
| EVERNOTE | searchable, tagable, cut and pasteable, note taking and idea indexer that I have used for three years now and it is invaluable to me |
| MAKING | ... |
| Jameco | electronic parts online catalogue very comprehensive |
| Instructables | someone already made that thing you want to make, and here are the directions |
| American science and surplus | surplus wholesaler of random and awesome things technical |
| .OBJ file specs | OBJ is a plain text 3d format that can be easily written by hand or script. write one today! |
| UBUNTU | its an opensource, free, stable, fully featured, operating system with hundreds of opensource programs. I have not booted my Vista installation for 13 months! |
| USPlastics | get all your plastic raw materials from here, great prices and will sell small quantities |
| Clinkenbeard | rapidprototyping to metal finished product |
| Grainger | lots of basic parts and materials, not the cheapest |
| Automationdirect | motors actuators steppers servos, make it go!!! |
| Fritzing | virtual arduino simulator, for prototyping your builds |
| Arduino | affordable microcontrolers to control that stuff you made |