Equipment

• http://www.ifixit.com/

See also Amiga

General

• http://uk.pangoly.com/en/ [1]

• http://www.logicalincrements.com/

• http://oldcomputers.net/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_form_factor
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX

• http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/

• http://stuge.se/pc2010.png

• http://pcpartpicker.com/

• http://www.techpowerup.com/

• http://www.aliexpress.com/

• http://www.anandtech.com/
• http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/

• http://www.cdrinfo.com/

• http://armdevices.net/

• http://www.2600.com/
• http://hackaday.com/

• How to fix yellowed plastics on old computers!

Linux

cat /proc/cpuinfo
lspci
lsusb
dmidecode

Comparison

• http://www.cnet.com/
  • hard drive size filter 1Tb max!

• http://thewirecutter.com/

Power

• 600w +

BIOS

• http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards

• http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2013/09/02/booting-a-self-signed-linux-kernel/

• http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2013/11/18/booting-to-rust/

CPU

• http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
• http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/

• http://techreport.com/articles.x/23246

• http://opencores.org/or1k/Main_Page

Interface

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_interface
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_device
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral

PCI

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

• lspci is a utility for displaying information about PCI buses in the system and devices connected to them.

• http://linux.die.net/man/8/update-pciids
  • http://pciids.sourceforge.net/

USB

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_human_interface_device_class

• https://www.mixdown.ca/redmine/projects/picjug/wiki/Home

• http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18552/why-was-mini-usb-deprecated-in-favor-of-micro-usb

• http://www.everythingusb.com/highpoint-rocketu-1144a-usb-3.0-pci-express-21274.html
  • http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/cs-series_RocketU1144A-Series.htm

• http://int3.cc/collections/frontpage/products/usbcondoms

• http://imgur.com/a/ktY9u

IEEE 1394 / Firewire

lsmod | egrep 'firewire|1394'

• http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/

• dvgrab is a program that captures DV video and audio data from digital camcorders via an IEEE1394 link. The DV data is stored in one or several files and can later be processed by video editing software. dvgrab can remote control the camcorder but it does not show the video's content on screen.

dvgrab --size 500 --autosplit <filename>

interactive mode;

dvgrab -i

live view;

dvgrab - | mplayer -

• http://dvgrabgui.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

Bluetooth

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_Mouse

• http://www.bluez.org/

• http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/hcitool1.html

Input

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_device

Mouse

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration

• http://spritesmods.com/?art=mouseeye

Keyboard

• http://techreport.com/articles.x/23405
• http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/wcgb0/mechanical_keyboards/
• http://keyboardporn.com/mx-switch/kbc-poker/
• http://geekhack.org/

• http://mathematicalmulticore.wordpress.com/the-keyboard-layout-project/
• http://zackshapiro.com/post/37569825579/im-trying-to-be-less-hyperbolic

• http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.html

• https://github.com/plover/plover
  • http://stenoknight.com/wiki/Main_Page
• http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861

• http://i.imgur.com/FLfT9F1.jpg

• http://www.workmanlayout.com/blog/ [2]

• http://www.robopeak.com/blog/?p=282 - diy laser keyboard

Scanner

• http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/

Output

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output_device

See also *nix#Printing

Monitor

• http://www.extremetech.com/computing/130605-where-are-all-the-high-resolution-desktop-displays

Display

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_device
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_display_technology

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_display

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_matrix_display

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen-segment_display
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen-segment_display

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT7nj2Rl4kU
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqehSmfWK1o
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMBtZh7suvU
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS8tK9AS6WE - cgi

diy;

• http://blog.makezine.com/2012/07/18/super-fast-electromagnetic-flip-dot-display/
• http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=113228
• http://www.designboom.com/technology/interactive-high-speed-flip-dot-display-by-breakfast/

• http://coldattic.info/shvedsky/pro/blogs/a-foo-walks-into-a-bar/posts/98

vga to d-tv;

• http://bellard.org/dvbt/

3D printing

• http://www.3ders.org/index.html

• http://www.amandaghassaei.com/3D_printed_record.html

• http://www.appropedia.org/Open-source_metal_3-D_printer

Storage

HDD

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibi-#Specific_units_of_IEC_60027-2_A.2_and_ISO.2FIEC_80000

• http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki

• http://forre.st/storage

• http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/ [3]

SSD

Great for boot/os drive.

• http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2385276

• http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2011/09/howto-hdd-and-ssd-alignment/608

• http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/

• http://articles.forensicfocus.com/2012/10/23/why-ssd-drives-destroy-court-evidence-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/

• http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html

NAS

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage

• http://etbe.coker.com.au/2012/03/23/cheap-nas-devices-suck/

• http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/19pduc/build_complete_unraid_20tb_nas_large_aic/

Tape

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open

Blu-ray

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable

SD/MicroSD cards

• http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

Media

• http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/dvbt/
• http://www.xtreamer.net/xtreamerpro/specs.aspx

MP3

• Rockbox is a free replacement firmware for digital music players. It runs on a wide range of players:

• gtkpod is a graphical user interface for the Apple iPod for Unix-like systems, written using the GTK+ toolkit.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtkpod

pcskr

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117309

Silver

• http://www.foxconnchannel.com/ProductDetail.aspx?T=motherboard&U=en-us0000316

Laptop

• http://makezine.com/magazine/building-an-open-source-laptop/ [4]

Mobile

See also Android

• http://www.slideshare.net/c.enrique.ortiz/sim-card-overview

• http://theiphonewiki.com/

• http://giffgaff.com/index/pricing
• http://giffgaff.com/unlock

• http://wammu.eu/

• http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-hello-ara.html

• http://neo900.org/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867503

• http://killyourphone.com/

GPS

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System#Comparison_of_accuracy

Controllerism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controllerism
• http://controllerism.com/

Arduino

• http://arduino.cc/
• http://forefront.io/a/beginners-guide-to-arduino

Lighting

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_lighting
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_lighting_instrument

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobo_(lighting)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512 - standard for digital communication networks that are commonly used to control stage lighting and effects. It was originally intended as a standardized method for controlling light dimmers, which, prior to DMX512, had employed various incompatible proprietary protocols. It soon became the primary method for linking controllers (such as a lighting console) to dimmers and special effects devices such as fog machines and intelligent lights. DMX has also expanded to uses in non-theatrical interior and architectural lighting, at scales ranging from strings of Christmas lights to electronic billboards. The use of DMX can now be used to control almost anything, reflecting its popularity in theatres and venues.

• http://opendmx.net/index.php/Open_Lighting_Project
• http://www.openlighting.org/

• Q Light Controller is a cross-platform application for controlling DMX or analog lighting systems like moving heads, dimmers, scanners etc.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Addressable_Lighting_Interface

Open

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware

• http://www.appropedia.org/Open_source_science

• http://www.opencollector.org/Whyfree/
• http://p2pfoundation.net/Product_Hacking
• http://opencircuits.com/Main_Page
• http://www.ohwr.org/
• http://www.oshwa.org/

• http://publiclaboratory.org/ - Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
• http://diy-scib.org/
• http://diybio.org/
• http://www.opensourceinstruments.com/
• http://openpcr.org/

• http://cncmentor.com/
• http://opensourcemachine.org/mm2html2/How_to_build_a_multimachine.html

• http://www.ohanda.org/
• http://oshug.org/

• http://www.wikihouse.cc/
• http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/2011/06/15/open-source-architecture-osarc-.html

• http://redpitaya.com/

cooker

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyw-57ExLDQ

Vacuum

• http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pe2bd/iama_vacuum_repair_technician_and_i_cant_believe/

• Miele S8340 Ecoline S8 Series Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner - 1200w

3310

• http://www.oocities.org/zaphran007/howtocompose.htm

Emulation

• http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMH

Locks

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7001227

To sort

• https://opendesignengine.net/

• http://wiki.openpicus.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

• http://www.jedec.org/standards-documents

• http://scanlime.org/2012/11/hacking-my-vagina/ [5]
• http://www.slashdong.org/

• http://www.adafruit.com/

• http://oliverbrown.co.uk/

• http://www.tricorderproject.org/