These are my links for July 25th:

• PCB Cost Comparison Calculator – This is a quick calculator for the most popular PCB manufacturers for prototype PCBs.
• APCircuits –
• Scott Kelby’s Third Annual | Worldwide Photo Walk – a social photography event where photographers get together (usually in a downtown area or trendy section of town) to walk around, shoot photos, and generally have fun with other photographers.
• BumbleB Version 2 Coming Soon | fletchtronics.net – Bumble-B version 2.0 is coming soon to fletchtronics.net. There have been several improvements.<br />
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  Updated microcontroller: ATMega32U2<br />
  3 pin power header replaced by a switch<br />
  Improved silkscreen<br />
  USB D+, D- lines now accessible
• Japan Trend Shop | ChouChou Butterfly – Keeping a butterfly in a jar is a childhood memory we all share. Unfortunately real butterflies only last a day and we cannot preserve the sensation of watching their beauty time after time. Until now. The ChouChou is an amazingly realistic butterfly toy that will, yes, fly and move inside a jar when you tap on the lid. Simply but mesmerizing, this award-winning creature dazzled visitors to the Tokyo Toy Show 2010 and is likely to become a bestseller on its release in September.
• World’s strongest beer – guaranteed to dent your wallet if not your liver | News.com.au – The blond Belgian ale, named The End of History, is an astonishing 55 per cent alcohol by volume (ABV) and is presented in a case made from stuffed animals, including stoats and squirrels.

These are my links for July 21st:

• The GearBox Blog – After seven months of working on some really cool stuff we are excited to finally share it with the community! So what is GearBox? At GearBox we are creating flexible hardware platforms that are controlled from your phone. We are then open sourcing the APIs for these devices so that other software developers can bring their own apps into real life!
• How to Find Free License Stunning Images for your Blog – Not all bloggers use images with their blog posts, or even in their website! So, it might be possible to build a huge readership without a single photo on your site.
• Printed Circuit Boards – Buy Custom PCB Prototypes and Production Circuit Boards Online with our Instant PCB Quote | PCB Universee – Welcome to PCB Universe, your best source for high quality low cost Printed Circuit Boards. We have a wide range of capabilities and lead times plus a convenient online quote system you can use any time day or night. If you prefer to send us your files for quote or if you have manufacturing questions please give us toll free at 888-775-PCBU (7228) or send us an e-mail; we will be glad to help!
• ExpressPCB – Free PCB layout software – Low cost circuit boards – Top quality PCB manufacturing – MiniBoard<br />
  > 2 or 4 layer boards<br />
  > Board size must be 3.8 x 2.5 inches<br />
  > $51 for three 2-layer boards, $98 for three 4-layer boards
• Sunstone QuickTurn PCBs | Sunstone.com – Sunstone's PCBexpress® quickturn service is the perfect way to save time and money, especially in the prototyping stage. Your prototype boards can be completed in small runs and delivered in a hurry.

These are my links for July 15th:

• Behind the Work: Old Spice Responses – Ann-Christine Diaz – Behind The Work – Creativity Online – For the past two days, Old Spice's The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, aka Isaiah Mustafa, has become the king of the social media space, charming the general public, bloggers and journalists with his gravelly baritone, spectacular abs and convoluted wordplay, delivering tailor-made video responses to TMYMCSL's online fanbase.
• SparkFun Electronics – Miniature Solar Cell – CPC1822 – The CPC1822 is a monolithic photovoltaic string of solar cells with switching circuitry. When operating in sunlight or a bright artificial light environment the optical energy will activate the cell array and generate a voltage at the output.
• Make Money Writing Online | Gather – I wonder how good this site is.
• ROILA – Robot Interaction Language – Do you speak robot?
• nootropic design | code | Toolduino – Toolduino is a simple software tool that lets you easily interact with your Arduino hardware so you can test the circuits you create. Toolduino is written in the Processing languange and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Toolduino uses the the Arduino library for Processing to communicate with an Arduino board so you can manipulate output pins and read inputs. The Arduino must be running the Firmata firmware that comes with the Arduino IDE. Toolduino is not for use with your own Arduino sketch — you must upload the StandardFirmata sketch to your Arduino before starting Toolduino.

These are my links for July 14th:

• ATmega32U4-AU Eagle part « Free lunch – Eagle CAD library for the ATmega32U4 in a TQFP-44
• Embedded Development on OSX. » Blog Archive » Running Paul Stoffregons’s teensy_serial arduino core on DFU based chips. – With a lot of my projects I have done my prototyping with Paul Stoffregon’s Teensy series of boards before moving them onto their own codebases. On those occasions where the “prototype was all I needed” I would compile the code using the teensyduino and then manually load the .hex file onto the target. As I am looking at using the arduino for more projects I decided to take a look at how paul interacts with the Arduino IDE and see if I could load code directly onto my chips.
• microBuilder Footprint Library (Eagle) – Making decent footprints and schematic symbols can be a time-consuming process. To make it as easy as possible for you to get started, we publish our Eagle library containing all of the symbols and footprints used when making our own development boards.
• eaglelibrary [AdaWiki] – Eagle CAD library from LadyAda.
• Best Slip ‘n Slide Ever from @WiredGeekDad » DigitalMisery.com – So for Father’s Day my wife and daughter got me two books, Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) and Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share. We decided to start working through some of the projects and this weekend we picked the “Best Slip ‘n Slide Ever” project from the Geek Dad book.
• Amazon.com: Van Tour: The Mother Truckers: MP3 Downloads – The Mother Truckers have a new album.
• Success for Warrington in robot contest (From Warrington Guardian) – A TEAM from Great Sankey High School won the first VEX Robotics Challenge to be staged in Great Britain.

These are my links for July 12th:

• Top 5 Twitter Clients For Android – Hack a Day – Hack-a-Day takes a good look at 5 twitter clients for Android.
• Amazon.com: Soccer Robot 2-pk: Home Improvement – The Soccer Robot is an infrared remote control kit. Its microprocessor provides four different channels to have four robots playing together on the ground. Two separate motors give it forward and backward movement and turn it left and right. Another motor is used to kick the ball. Learn how to control the ball, hold it and kick it out. Requires (4) AA and (4) AAA batteries. Ages 10+
• James Potter – Fan fiction based on the characters in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter.
• StartSSL™ Certificates & Public Key Infrastructure – StartSSL™ Free – The StartSSL™ Free (Class 1) certificates are domain or email validated and mostly referred to as the free certificates. Because the checks are performed mostly by electronic means, they require only minimal human intervention from our side. The validations are here to make sure, that the subscriber is the owner of the domain name, resp. email account. You may find additional information on this subject in our CA policy.
• Make: Online : Holy smokes Iron Man costume – [Le] used thin, high-impact urethane for the armor, cutting it into plates and joining them with some 1,500 rivets and washers. He sculpted a clay helmet mold and then used a liquid resin mix to create the final product…He also added a small servo motor that opens the faceplate, as in the movie, and built a gun out of pipes and a motor. LEDs in the eyes and chest-plate further add to the illusion.

These are my links for July 4th:

• Calibration standards: Resistance | electronics | Pagetitle – Yet another one of the dirt cheap calibration standards that should be available in any hobby electronics workshop.
• How to Export Mailbox Data: Exchange 2007 Help – This topic explains how to use the the Export-Mailbox cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell to export mailbox data from one mailbox to a folder in another mailbox. New functionality is added to the Export-Mailbox cmdlet in Exchange Server Service Pack 1 (SP1).
• Review: Lego Harry Potter Video Game Has the Movie Magic, Plus Silliness | GeekDad | Wired.com – I’ll freely admit it: I was just as anxious to get the Lego Harry Potter video game as my kids were. I might even have been more anxious, since I’ve been a fan of the books since before either of them was born. I was hoping it would be able to capture the magic of the Potter-verse, with enough of the trademark Lego video game silliness to cut through the stories’ seriousness.
• Doughnut Muffins: King Arthur Flour – This basic muffin is not your stir-it-gently, dense, fruit-and-nut-filled health muffin. Instead, it's a beat-it-up, cake-type muffin, high-crowned and very "vanilla-looking." This is a great muffin for kids (young or old) who don't want a lot of "stuff" in their muffins. With its basic sugar-cinnamon-nutmeg flavor, it's more reminiscent of a plain doughnut (without the deep-fat frying) than anything else.
• 5 True War Stories That Put Every Action Movie to Shame | Cracked.com – [object Object]

These are my links for June 30th:

• robots.net – Giant Dallas Robot Cited as Best Public Art – By now most residents of the Dallas / Fort Worth area are aware of the giant, 35,000 lbs steel robot that towers over DART's Deep Ellum rail station.
• Homemade Lenses: What’s All The Fuzz About? | DIYPhotography.net – Several weeks ago, you may have read my post on this site entitled Build Your Own Lenses in which I extolled the wonders of homemade lenses and the soft, glowy images they produce.
• Geekdad – Best Blogs of 2010 – TIME – There's no better mix of cool stuff and nostalgia-inducing throwbacks online than GeekDad. Targeted at fathers with a nerd-bent, this blog from Wired includes creative kid-friendly projects like making your own monster movie or ways to relive your wild impoverished youth by doing getting a massive box of Ramen. The site's strength is that it doesn't try to be anything it isn't. GeekDad is laser-focused on the father who wasn't the cool kid in high school — but is now the envy of every dad on the block.
• Strap on your swords and grab your bag of holding – it’s the D&D comic book! – Strap on your swords and grab your bag of holding – it's the D&D comic book!
• Amazon.com: SanDisk Sansa Clip+ 2 GB MP3 Player (Black): Electronics – Tiny MP3 Player with Big Sound<br />
  Brought to you by SanDisk, the global leader in flash memory cards, the Sansa Clip+ MP3 player offers distinctively big sound and a wide array of features packed into a tiny, ultra-compact design.

These are my links for June 23rd:

• Mr. Beaks Reports Back From THE GREEN HORNET Trailer Premiere (AKA The Night The Lights Went Out At The Jimmy Kimmel Show)! — Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. – … and read what Seth Rogen, Michel Gondry, Evan Goldberg and Neal Moritz had to say about where they are in the process of beating THE GREEN HORNET into shape. They seem thrilled with their movie.
• Rockwall County-Official Website – Defensive Driving Course – You may wish to take this course to keep traffic offenses off your record. You must receive permission from the Court to complete the course. The traffic offense will be dismissed if you take the course and present proof to the Court.
• This Explains Both Keytars & The Platypus! » Synthtopia – This t-shirt design, by Tenso Graphics, may just explain both keytars and the platypus!<br />
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  You can check it out at Threadless.
• Inductorless DC/DC Regulators (Charge Pumps) – Step-Up Charge Pump Regulators – TPS60150 – TI.com –
• MAX1595 Regulated 3.3V/5.0V Step-Up/Step-Down Charge Pump – The MAX1595 charge-pump regulator generates either 3.3V or 5V from a 1.8V to 5.5V input. The unique control architecture allows the regulator to step up or step down the input voltage to maintain output regulation. The 1MHz switching frequency, combined with a unique control scheme, allows the use of a ceramic capacitor as small as 1µF for 125mA of output current.
• Simply Said… Ken of Geek Dad | Simply Modern Mom – You have probably been seeing his book, Geek Dad,  floating around the web as an excellent Father’s Day gift idea. That is because the book has been getting nothing but top reviews. Ken, the author and writer of the book and blog Geek Dad is here to share with us his daddy perspective of parenthood. This is Ken who simply said…

These are my links for June 15th:

• Free online Music Creator – Aviary.com’s Roc – Use Aviary's music creator to simulate dozens of musical instruments including piano, guitars and drums. Create music loops and patterns for use in Aviary's audio editor (Myna) or as ring tones.
• Android Developers – The Android 2.2 platform is now available for the Android SDK, along with new tools, documentation, and a new NDK. For information about new features and APIs, read the version notes.
• Ordering PCBs Designed With EAGLE « Colin Karpfinger – So you've figured out EAGLE's design quirks, you've routed all your airwires and you're wondering what next.  This guide will take you from a .brd file in EAGLE to a professionally made PCB.
• Amarino – "Android meets Arduino" – Home – Amarino is a toolkit to connect Android-driven mobile devices with Arduino microcontrollers via Bluetooth. The toolkit provides easy access to internal phone events which can be further processed on the Arduino open-source prototyping platform.
• Diesel Sweeties Music & Robot T-Shirts & Socks : Crush All Humans! – Stickers – I Screw Robots Stickers

These are my links for June 13th:

• Gridbots Technologies – Robotics, Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance –
• Ranger 2N 2-303 AM 27MHz: Toys & Games – A cheap little radio that could be used to build a swashbot.
• Sugarbooger robots – Accessories for the robot loving toddler.
• Sad Keanu Reeves – The Latest Image Meme – Urlesque – It all started with the above paparazzi image. Doesn't Keanu Reeves look so sad? Cheer up, guy! In an effort to make Keanu feel better, some Keanu fans have designated June 15th as Keanu Reeves Day. Others insist that it's July 1st. What do you do on Keanu Reeves Day? It depends on who you ask.
• Associate-O-Matic | Build a custom Amazon Associate Store with 1000’s of items in minutes – With Associate-O-Matic you can build a standalone store or add a shopping area to an existing website or blog in just minutes.