Aug 11, 2009
Final presentations from Designing Interaction with Electronics 2009 at UCIT
Paja
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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