Equipment

• http://www.ifixit.com/

General

• 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/

Linux

cat /proc/cpuinfo
lspci
lsusb
dmidecode

Comparison

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

• http://thewirecutter.com/

Power

• 600w +

CPU

• http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

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

HDD

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

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

an ssd boot drive would be nice

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/

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/

PCI

• 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

• 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

IEEE 1394 / Firewire

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

Bluetooth

• http://www.bluez.org/

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

Monitor

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

Printer

• http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.6/options.html

• http://tig.csail.mit.edu/wiki/TIG/CUPSPrintingTipsForLinuxUnix

• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1602839
• http://raerav.com/howto-get-canon-pixma-mp495-all-in-one-printer-working-with-linux/

Scanner

• http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/

3D printer

• http://www.3ders.org/index.html

Media

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

MP3

• http://www.rockbox.org/

pcskr

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

Silver

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

Mobile

See also Android

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

• http://theiphonewiki.com/

• http://giffgaff.com/unlock

• http://wammu.eu/

GPS

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

Controllerism

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

Software radio

• http://wush.net/trac/rangepublic

• http://www.pervices.com/

• http://www.funcubedongle.com/
  • http://adamsblog.aperturelabs.com/2013/03/you-can-ring-my-bell-adventures-in-sub.html

• http://www.websdr.org/
  • http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

Arduino

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

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/

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

Etc.

• 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/ [1]
• http://www.slashdong.org/

• http://www.adafruit.com/

cooker

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

3310

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