Nov 15, 2007
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Rapid prototyping for music, art and design work
collaborative tools with microcontroller
Electronic component shops in Helsinki
- Bebek Electronic (Hakaniemi) by Hakaniemi square. Questionable customer relations practices.
- ELFA Elektronikka OY
- Partco Oy Teuvo Pakkalantie 9. Bus 52 from Taik
- Prinel Piirilevy Oy You can order the PCB that you designed.
- Radioduo Oy Ruosilankuja 3, 00390 Helsinki. Bus 45,315,321,324,345,362,361,363
- Tieto Nikkeri Radio controlled vehicle shop (e.g. servo motors)
- UralTone amplification focused on guitar amps, plenty of standard components and friendly
Facilities
Institutes and schools
- Gestalten mit digitalen Medien
- IAMAS, Japan
- Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy
- Interaction Design, RCA, London
- Interactive Environments Lab, University of Lapland
- Interactive Institute, Sweden
- Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU, NY
- Media Lab Helsinki
- medialab madrid
- Persons Design + Technology
- Rekimoto Lab at the University of Tokyo
- The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
Material shops in Helsinki region
- cyncrona oy
- Kevra Oy glass fiber, silicon, epoxy resin
- Muovikilpi Oy Acrilic, plastic materials
- Prinel Piirilevy Oy The Finnish company who makes PCB for you.
Online shops for Arduino users
- Acroname Inc (U.S) Sensors for beginners
- Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits (U.S.)
- Electrokit (Sweden)
- iCube (U.S.) controlling devices via MIDI. Good for sound oriented designers
- Images Science Instruments
- Images Scientific Instruments
- Lawicel AB (Sweden) online shop where you can buy BASIC Stamp and other components
- Maker SHED from MAKE Magazine, craftzine.com, and Maker Faire
- Månsteri store (Finland)
- paeae.com (Finland)
- Parallax online shop (U.S)
- Robmaa.com (Finland)
- robotshop.se (Sweden) online shop where you can buy BASIC Stamp and other components
- Rounded: just click and repair You can find any parts of consumer products for repairing by yourself.
- Seeed Studio
- Spark Fun Electronics (U.S.)
- Tigal
- Velleman Kit
- Watterott electronic
Tools for physical computing
- a resistor calculator for Mac OS X Dashboard
- Arduino (microcontroller)
- Circuit Playground (iPhone app)
- EAGLE (CAD software for PCB) Educational version is free.
- ElectroDroid (Android app)
- Fritzing PCB CAD tool for Aduiino
- Parallax BASIC Stamp (microcontroller)
- Prinel Piirilevy Oy You can order the PCB that you designed.
- Wiring Wiring is an open source hardware
Tutorials
Administration
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