Useful links for physical computing & creative coding
Tools
- Wire stripper/cutter
- Screwdriver
- Needle-nose pliers
- Multimeter
- Soldering iron & stand
- Solder tip cleaner
- Solder
- Flux
- Solder wick
- Helping hands
Components
- Arduino Starter Kit or on Amazon, pretty much everything you'll need to start prototyping)
- Header pins female & male
- Wire
- Alligator Clips
- Breadboard
- Servo motor
- DC Motor
- H Bridges
- LEDs
- Pushbuttons
- Potentiometers
- Photocells
- Speaker
- Assorted sensors
- Assorted resistors
- Diodes, general purpose rectifier
- Assorted capacitors
- Transistors
- Voltage regulator
- Power adapter (9v-12v)
- Battery packs/connectors
Electronics
- Adafruit, nice site for kits, microcontrollers, sensors, etc with a lot of beginner-frienfly documentation
- Sparkfun, Ditto ^
- Mouser, reliable electronics components distributor thought you can find less expensive (probably fake) components on amazon, etc
- Digikey Ditto ^
- SeedStudio
- Tinkersphere, useful in a crunch, support a local business (beware the knock offs)
- Amazon, useful in a crunch
also:
- Jameco (motors, misc)
- Grand Brass, A/C, lighting
- Robot Shop robotics: motors, sensors, misc
- Lynx Motion robotics:kits, motors, accessories
- Servo City all things motors and mechanisms
- MPJA motors + accessories
Fabrication:
- McMaster all things fabrication
- Rockler woodworking + hardware
- Woodcraft woodworking + hardware
- Home Depot
- Big ReUse like a reclaimed homedepot of sorts
- American Science + Surplus fun stuff
- The Container Store
- The trash!
- Arduino Playground
- ITP's Physical Computing Vimeo Channel
- ITP's Physical Computing tutorials
- ITP's Sensors site
- Brooke Clarke's sensor database
- Adafruit
- Sparkfun
- Instructables
Soldering
- How-to video
- Sparkfun Guide
- Sparkfun Do's * Dont's
- Adafruit Guide
- NASA technical standard for soldering electrical connections
Wearables
p5.js
- P5.js website and reference
- The Nature of Code book by Dan Shiffman
- The Coding Train video tutorials
- Kinectron and Getting Started Guide
Non-exhaustive assortment of possibilities
- Radical Software
- Lillian Schwartz's films
- Mechanical Mirrors, Danny Rozin
- Coin-Operated Wetland, Tega Brain
- Not the Only One, Stephanie Dinkins
- Urban Armor, Kathleen McDermott
- Crank the Web, Jonah Brucker-Cohen
- Datamatics, Ryoji Ikeda
- Thinking Machines @ MOMA
- bitforms gallery
- Feel Train cofounded by Darius Kazemi and Courtney Stanton
- Tactical Tech
- Bleep Labs
- teamLab
- smooth.technology
- AV&C
- Random Studio
- Wearable Media
- Artist and Computer
- Eyebeam
- Rhizome
- Experiments in Art and Technology
- Deep Web by Christopher Bauder and Robert Henke