School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Dmitry (Dima) Strakovsky
An amazing set of links compiled by Stephen Wilson, --> http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html
Simon Penny --> http://www.ace.uci.edu/penny/
Survival Research Labs --> http://www.srl.org/
Norman White --> http://www.normill.ca/
Joshua Pablo Rosenstock --> http://www.joshuarosenstock.com/
Nam Jun Paik --> http://www.paikstudios.com/
Ken Goldberg --> http://ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/art/index.html
Taylor Hokanson --> http://www.taylorhokanson.com/
Hung Ngo --> http://www.huongngo.com/
Jim Campbell --> http://jimcampbell.tv/
Matthew Steinke --> http://www.matthewsteinke.com/
ARW --> http://amorphicrobotworks.org/
Yuichiro Nishizawa --> http://www.liminalspace.org/
Sabrina Raaf --> http://www.raaf.org/
Shawn Decker --> http://www.artic.edu/~sdecke/
Tod Machover's Toy Symphony Project--> http://www.toysymphony.net/
Natalie Jeremijenko --> http://xdesign.ucsd.edu/
Tatsuo Miajima --> http://www.tatsuomiyajima.com
Eduardo Kac --> http://www.ekac.org/
Wiring <-- Sister project of Processing --> http://wiring.org.co/
Arduino <-- Tiny but quite powerfull -->http://arduino.berlios.de/
EZIO <-- One of the oldest and most reliable options in art world, rummored to be comming out with a new revision of the board--> http://www.ezio.com/
MUIO <-- a modular io board --> http://www.muio.org/muiowiki/index.php/Main_Page
FreeIO.org <-- this is a very technical and very interesting project, might be of special interest to Linux users--> http://freeio.org/
PIC, pedal to the metal 8bit micro, the most popular microcontroller out there :) --> www.microchip.com
AVR, newer micro, faster, with some nifty features, not as popular but a very strong contender --> www.atmel.com/products/AVR/
Basic Stamp, Parallax SX, and some nifty FPGA development stuff --> www.parallax.com
BasicX --> http://www.basicx.com
Basic Atom --> http://www.basicmicro.com
OOPic -->http://www.oopic.com/
FindChips.com <-- THE RESOURCE for comparative pricing from most of the established electronics distributors --> http://www.findchips.com/
Tom Igoe excellent collection of resources. Check out "Physical Computing" book that he co-wrote with Dan O'Sullivan --> http://tigoe.net/pcomp/
Play Hookey <-- Fun electronics tutorials -->http://www.play-hookey.com/
MAKE Magazine <-- Lots of awesome hacking recipies --> http://www.makezine.com/
Electrical Engineering Calculators --> http://www.ifigure.com/engineer/electric/electric.htm
Resistor Calculators
--> http://www.electrician.com/resist_calc/resist_calc.htm
--> http://www.csgnetwork.com/resistcolcalc.html
--> http://www.the12volt.com/resistors/resistors.asp
--> http://samengstrom.com/elec/resistor
CCS compiler users forum --> http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/
Electro Tech <-- a very diverse forum, micros, robotics, general electronics--> http://www.electro-tech-online.com/index.php
ARG <-- ArtRoboticsGroup, a great list out of Toronto, Canada --> http://www.interaccess.org/arg/arg-list.html
Serial cable pinout documentation --> http://www.zytrax.com/tech/layer_1/cables/tech_rs232.htm
Digi-Key --> http://www.digikey.com/
Mouser --> http://www.mouser.com/
Newark --> http://www.newark.com/
Jameco <-- color catalog very user friendly --> http://www.jameco.com/
SparkFun <-- lots of circuits and lots of good advice --> http://www.sparkfun.com
Marlin P. Johns <-- surplus --> http://www.mpja.com/
Happ Supplies <-- arcade and pinball parts, power supplies --> http://www.happcontrols.com/
Electronic Surplus <-- just like the name says --> http://www.electronicsurplus.com
American Science and Surplus <-- surplus --> http://www.sciplus.com/
Mini-lathe Website <-- as you can see from the links below, it deals with more then just lathes
Anatomy of a mill --> http://www.mini-lathe.com/Mini_mill/Features/features.htm
Anatomy of a lathe --> http://www.mini-lathe.com/Mini_lathe/Features/features.htm
Advice to keep you alive!! -->http://www.mini-lathe.com/Mini_lathe/lathe_safety.htm
GadgetBuilder <-- advance -->http://www.gadgetbuilder.com/index.html
Great tutorial page for making your own tools. Some of these are very complicated but are explained in a step by step fashion,<-- advance--> http://homepage3.nifty.com/amigos/index-e.html
Home Metal Shop Club of Houston Texas <-- has a nice listing of projects created by members and links to ther clubs --> http://www.homemetalshopclub.org
Enco --> http://www.use-enco.com/
MSC --> http://www1.mscdirect.com/
J&L --> http://www.jlindustrial.com/
McMaster Carr --> http://www.mcmaster.com/
Grainger --> http://www.grainger.com/
MicroMark --> http://www.micromark.com/
US Plastics Corp. --> http://www.usplastic.com
8020 <-- Industrial Erector Set, fast setup, fast breakdown--> http://www.8020.net/
...and, of course, e-Bay is good for finding small scraps to machine :) Type in something like "aluminum stock" and you'll get quite a few leads
GNU Compiler collection --> http://gcc.gnu.org/
C Tutorials/Courses
-->http://cyberdiem.com/vin/learn.html
-->http://www.its.strath.ac.uk/courses/c/
-->http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/IO-Port-Programming.html
Director Hopepage -->http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/
Ben Chang's EZIOXtra <-- includes source code, so people can hack their own custom Serial Xtras--> http://www.bcchang.com/ezio/
Cycling74's MAX/MSP Homepage --> http://www.cycling74.com/
Miller Puckette's PD page --> http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html
VVVV Homepage --> http://vvvv.meso.net/tiki-index.php
Processing homepage <-- check out user forums --> http://www.processing.org/
Serial Interface --> http://processing.org/learning/examples/serialduplex.html
Java Homepage --> http://java.sun.com/
Java Serial Interface Links
-->http://www.geeksville.com/~kevinh/linuxcomm.html
-->http://wass.homelinux.net/howtos/Comm_How-To.shtml
-->http://www.richmore.com/notes/javaSerial.html
Python homepage -->http://www.python.org/
Serial Communication module --> http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/
MS Visual Basic homepage -->http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/