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Hardware, Software and Gadgets

Asus WL-330gE Tiny Wireless Access Point, router, digipeater

Lantronix U-Box USB server (USB ports from RJ-45)

Zonet Wi-Fi Web Camera (no PC required) Best used for movement detection

D-Link Wi-Fi Web Camera (no PC required) Best used for "paced" output [really tough to set up - not for networking beginners]

SanDisk Sansa Fuze (NOT the Plus!) The most brilliant MP3 player - forget your iPod Touch! Very limited supply. Get one before they have gone. About $50, plus $7 for 8GB extra memory and $5 for a full extras kit!

Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones - low cost. Despite what my brother may say(!), these are good for travelling and at $20 are a bargain compared to the better $199 Sony NC60 cans. Yes, my NC20's are much better, but they should have been $199 too, but I got them for $49 on eBay shortly after they were made obsolete. Warning: None of these are truely good headphones, for that you need to go to AKG and (maybe) others.

3D Printing (or stereolithography as it's really known)

Fab@Home RepRap MakerBot 3DSystems Shapeways

The Most Frustrating to use Tech!
iPad - 15 minutes enough to drive you completely mad
Motorola Xoom - 10 minutes enough to drive you completely mad
Google Chrome - 2 hours enough to really be really annoying
Ubuntu Linux v11 - slower than v10. [Unity=rubbish]
Windows Vista - the worst OS EVER!
Facebook - how can 800m people use this trash?
Twitter - only marginally less stupid than Facebook.

The Best to use Tech!
Opera - Fast, small, good rendering
Cheatsheets - Cheatography

ARM the Cambridge-based (UK) driver of the new tech
Microchip the 90's and 2000's workhorse in embedded systems

Open Hardware
Raspberry Pi - new educational board
Openhardware.org
Arduino
Google has some hardware too

Other small boxes
CuBox Futurlec Embedded Projects Dangerous Prototypes (PIC)
DD-WRT on Routers. I even got a WRT54Gv8 running decent code! ...and YES the 12V router can be run from 5V. Amazingly, I have it running on a USB port (by making a USB to 3.5mm barrel connector cable). The router stays powered in standby mode of the PC and is powered off when the PC is off! [I am using it in Client mode, so it simply runs as ethernet connected WiFi tx/rx and NOT an AP, Repeater or Bridge]. The v8 didn't used to be supported - here's more detail. I believe later versions are again easier to flash.

Make!

Suppliers
Adafruit - wonderful! This is exactly the type of company I'd want to collaborate with. Ideas, ideas.......

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