Learning aids

Lego Technic

• https://rebrickable.com/

• http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-A-Brick-ByTheme

YouTube channels

• Practical Engineering

Cameras

Articles / Videos

• Youtube - World smallest Drone Spy cam may soon be used by the U.S. Army

Home automation

Misc links

• http://www.smarthome.com/

• https://www.pubnub.com/

• http://www.insteon.com/

Making physical objects

CAD tools

• Samy Kamkar rec's in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcpSvHpbHQ4

  • I'm using AUtodesk Fusion 360

    • Works on OS and Windows

    • Free for 30 days

  • 123D Design

    • Always free

  • Autodesk Inventor Fusion

    • Free

    • Faster than Fusion 360

    • More powerful than 123D Design

  • Autodesk has good YouTube videos

Materials Science

• 2014.06.12 - GatesNotes - Review of Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization

• 2015.06.23 - Review of Stuff Matters