| MODELING | ... |
| Blender | powerful free 3d modeling application nurbs and polymesh and everything else |
| Pepakura | simple cheap 3d model pattern maker |
| Milkshape | simple cheap 3d modeler good for low-poly work |
| Secondlife | Virtual world fantastic for prototyping installations and designs |
| Secondlife LSL Reference | reference for linden scripting language, lots of useful cut and paste code |
| Secondlife info by Torley | Torley Linden is one of the makers of secondlife, his youtube videos are fast paced and useful |
| TurboSquid | 3d model repository, some are free most are pay |
| Sketchup | googles free 3d modeling application, has Ruby API built in |
| CODING | ... |
| Notepad++ | powerful free text editing application with many programming language lexers |
| Ruby | my coding language of choice, easy to learn, read, and works with sketchup |
| Pragmatic Programmers guide Pleac Zenspider | three resource links to Ruby syntax, I use these often |
| Sketchup Ruby API | info on how to use the builtin Ruby API in Sketchup |
| Ghostscript | free postscript viewer, to view Pointsware output files you need this installed, GSView helps too |
| Imagemagick | free commandline image manipulation application, can be called from Ruby |
| Tesseract | googles free OCR application |
| Amaya | free html builder, works with SVG and makes compliant web code |
| w3c | world wide web consortium main page, tons of useful stuff for all things standardized web |
| w3c html tags reference | world wide web consortium html tags list and specs on how they all work and are used |
| DOS shell command reference | all that stuff you do with your mouse you can do at the commandline, or with a script! |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics format, like postscript but XML based for the web |
| PHP | A server side scripting language for writing web applications, easy to learn and hybridizes into HTML |
| MAKING | ... |
| Instructables | someone already made that thing you want to make, and here are the directions |
| USPlastics | get all your plastic raw materials from here, great prices and will sell small quantities |
| Grainger | lots of basic parts and materials, not the cheapest |
| Automationdirect | motors actuators steppers servos, make it go!!! |
| Buildit | plans to make stuff that makes stuff |
| Arduino | affordable microcontrolers to control that stuff you made |