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The Fab@Home project opens the door, for the home tinkerer, to the techniques of rapid prototyping. This website provides an open source kit that lets you make your own simple fabber, and use it to print three dimensional objects.
Further readings on fabbers can be found in Google.
Wanderings
Citizen Scientist --- Podcast interview with David Anderson, research scientist, principal investigator, and director of the University of California at Berkeley's BOINC project and SETI@home project
A solar balloon is an ultralight hot air balloon that only uses heat radiation from the sun to provide lift.
How to make your own solar balloons
The Build It Solar site has plans, tools, and information to help you build solar and alternate energy projects.
Build your own parabolic dish.
NCH has an excellent audio tone generator program that is available for download from their Web Site.
A DIY RS-232 Laser Pointer Transceiver by George Katz
Convert a paint roller into Washington University's Roller - Bot.
The Lay Language Papers from the Acoustical Society of America's Archive contain many interesting articles.
Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion is one of the examples that Dr. Dan Russell has included on his Acoustics and Vibration Animations site.
A Beginners Guide to Time-Lapse Photography by David Bue Pedersen Time-lapse photography is a method where you take pictures of processes that go very slowly with relatively long time interval, and then join the photographs to a movie so that you can see the progress in very fast forward.
Bertho Boman has written some useful utilities for those of you who use a camera in their scientific studies.
Benjamin Crowell's Planet Finder applet shows the locations of the planets, stars, moon, and sun in the sky from any location and for any date and time. Note --- This site is slow in opening.
OnlineConversion.com converts just about anything to anything else.
The Encyclopaedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight is an alphabetical guide to the Universe.
Jos Leys and The Droste Effect
The Droste Effect --- from Wikipedia
Escher and The Droste Effect
The Kids Room
The Science Toy Maker site shows you how to make a DIY Full-Bodied Putt - Putt Boat. Other plans can be seen at The Pop - Pop Boat and Instructions to Build a Putt - Putt Boat sites.
QS Top Universities is your one-stop guide to studing abroad and the THES-QS World University Rankings
Science Service's mission is to advance public understanding and appreciation of science among people of all ages.
The Light and Matter Series of Introductory Physics Textbooks, by Benjamin Crowell, are free to download.
Lego and YouTube are used to explain Newtonian physics.
The Homely Scientist --- Science at home by Triss Hussey, a science geek.
The Physical Science Department at Midwood High School
The Saturday Scientist --- Science Experiments You Can Do --- by Brian Rich.
Suppliers
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The Logomatic Universal Serial Datalogger, from Sparkfun.com ($60US) is a general purpose datalogger that allows you to log your data to a 1 gig SD card.
Charlie Neuhauser alerted me to the interesting looking “Little Labs” series at the Thames & Kosmos site. Check out their C3000 Chemistry Set!
Home Science Tools is a resource for parents, teachers, and kids interested in having a good experience with hands-on science.
Add this digital eyepiece to your standard microscope and view and capture images with your computer.
So you don't have a microscope --- Well then, why not try the Digital Blue QX5 Digital Microscope?
Information Unlimited carries a wide selection of “interesting” items.
The Electronics Gold Mine offers quality electronic parts at discount prices.
Crocodile Clips creates flexible, easy-to-use modelling software for schools and colleges.
On The Lighter Side
The Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique
From The Far Side
Homemade Anti Gravity or hoax?
ukcropcircles.co.uk --- has a summary of the 2005 crop circle occurrences for the 2005 season. 
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