Learn about appropriate, effective technology suited to your budget.

Instructables is a step-by-step collaboration system and online community that helps you record and share your projects with a mixture of images, text, ingredient lists, files, and more. You can browse the projects and check out the Blog for help and news.

Useful Web links.

Helping media designers and communicators understand how to use professional tools and design to enhance visual communication through web, print, and motion graphics.

PhotoNotes.org is a free public information resource with camera reviews for the Internet photographic community. They also offer a searchable on-line photographic glossary.

MAKE Magazine is a quarterly publication that helps you apply the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with illustrated easy step-by-step instructions to build exciting projects that could be seen as both artworks and home inventions.

Users can create computer models online, which can be made to move as if they actually had muscles and mass. There are forums for users to talk about their 'models', a 'Sodazoo' (for featured models), and a 'Sodarace', where models can race against each other.

HowStuffWorks is an online source for thousands of articles and illustrations with clear explanations of how everything actually works.

Links to sites with photos of robots, Web-enabled embedded systems, physical robot construction, walking robots, Robotics Organizations, micro-controllers, interesting electronic and mechanical parts + companies, motor control electronics, sensors, and batteries.

Author Gordon McComb has written several excellent reference books and beginner guides to robotics. This information is very applicible to visual artists or performers who wish to learn the basics of motion, light and sound generation and control.