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Circuits and modules for GCSE Electronic Products
Links to other sites checked 14 July 2003
Tutorials
Technology Student Lots of material - both on electronics in general but also how to do your project.
Beastie Zone Very good information on various integrated circuits.
Design and Tech Lots of electronics. If that link fails try this one www.designandtech.com
Design Electronics On Line text book
Articles on Electricity Weird stuff
Graham Knott's pages Good basic information
Berkeley University Advanced material
Electricity Online Excellent detailed information, but the site seems very slow.
Electronic Tutorials Vast amount of information varying from basic to advanced.  Also try his other site
BEAM Reference Library This site has got everything: brilliant!
G Glover's site Mr Glover teaches electronics and gives some excellent guidance on doing coursework.
The Scots Guide to Electronics Good stuff from the Univesity of St Andrews (but starting simple!).
Learn Electronics Over a hundred pages of scanned stuff.  More than you need!
Iguana Labs Three levels of tuition.
The Design Process All parts of the project discussed.
Australian Photonics All about the communications revolution.
All about circuits Excellent multi-volume tutor covering more than you will need.
Circuit diagrams
Bowden's Hobby Circuits Tons of circuits from 4QD mainly motor control
100 circuits from Electronicsforu Discover circuits 7000 categorised!
KeelyNet Electronics Zone
Australian circuits Electro Tech
Aaron Cake's excellent site. Electronics Plus
CXI Schematics Dmoz' list of circuit archives
Kits including circuits Brilliant Greek/English site
Components
d&t online Lots of stuff about different components.
How Stuff Works: Building Blocks How different components work.
All about LEDs What it says.
Revision
BBC bytesize D&T electronics Good revision site, but not much material. Look at the Systems & Control section as well.
Soham College electronics Click on Revision in the left hand menu.
Revise Now Excellent advice for learning and revision.
Exam Boards
AQA GCSE D&T Electronic Products You will want to check out the specification - make sure you know all the stuff under knowledge. Check out the marking scheme for the project too. You can also get reports about previous year's exams.
WJEC GCSE Electronics and Design & Technology If you're doing this board, check out the details.
EdExcel GCSE D&T Systems and Control If you're doing this board, check out the details.
OCR GCSE D&T Electronic Products If you're doing this board, check out the details.
Manufacturers
Rapid Electronics Supplier of most parts used in the pcbs - by return of post.
Maplin Electronics Plenty of interesting and unusual items with regular special offers
TechSoft UK Suppliers of "PCB Design & Make" software and several different CAM machines.
Crocodile Technology Suppliers of "Crocodile Technology" simulation and "Absorb Electronics" learning software.
Revolution Education Supply lots of D&T stuff as well as the PICAXE system.
PICAXE All about PICAXE microcontrollers.
New Wave Concepts Makers of Control Studio, PCB Wizard and Live Wire software.
ProDesktop Suppliers of "Pro/Desktop" CAD software.
Amazon Books, music and games.
A List of Lists of Links
http://technologylinks.org/tlinks/index.htm Lots of excellent links. But they have not been updated for a couple of years so some may be out of date.
Alex's Library Millions of useful links.
ePanorama A list of sites which offer circuit diagrams
DIY Electronics All sorts of electronics related links
Electronic Circuit Libraries Another list of sites which offer circuit diagrams
Links and Resources A range of different resources
BEAM Refernece Library Links Up-to-date collection of well organised links.
Electronics Hobbyist All sorts of links - useful and weird!