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Computer and other hardware. I've never bought a "whole" computer, and enjoy fiddling with this kind of stuff.

General

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Webshopper

Tom's Hardware Guide

Up-to-date, independent, not too much hype, technically interesting...

Computer Connector Specs

Ever wondered or needed to know what the pin-outs for a computer related plug were?

Electronics

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Silicon Chip Magazine
DSE - Technical Information
Electronics Australia
Free Plans & Circuit Schematics
Datasheets
Australian Electronics Webring
Interfacing the PC
Phone Switching Devices

KitZ

This is a great mail-order company from Western Australia. Nice range of kits, priced in Australian dollars and delivered within a few days. One that would have been useful when I was building the little FM transmitter I use to transmit from my CD player in my room to the radios in the rest of the house would have been the LED Power Meter for FM Bug tuning.

* LED Power Meter

Infrared

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Currently I'm attempting to control my stereo (including 100-disc stacker) from my computer to overcome it's limitations. I've got all the bits to build an IR interface, but kinda gave up and used MP3's instead...

* Amplicon * AnIR Ergonomic Infrared Mouse * IRMan * HP48 IR Remote Control * Universal IR Receiver * IRDA.org * ZipLabel.Com Computerised IR Intro * ACTiSYS IR 2000L * Eon3 X10 Automation * X10.com * IR and Linux * LIRC - Linux IR Remote Control * IR Receiver Schematic * IR Transmitter Schematic * Serial IR Transceiver Schematic * Texas Instruments IR Transceiver * Texas Instruments IRDA Encoder/Decoder * JED Microprocessors *

Wacom

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My Wacom graphics tablet is just about the coolest thing I have on my computer. I'm a firm believer that it is peripherals that are the important bit of the computer -- software and processing power are pretty irrelevant if you can't do stuff with it!

* Wacom * Wacom (US) * Linux Support * BeOS Support *

My Systems

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Some of the stuff I've got and documentation for it.

Harddrives

Links re IBM, Maxtor, Quantum, Samsung (yeah, I know, that's pretty much all of the brands available! I've got others that don't work too...

* IBM * Maxtor * Quantum * Samsung

 

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