William Douglas

Graduate Student,
Computer Science

I've included a few links to my favorite web sites. I hope you find them useful.

Some sites that provide real news coverage.

• CBC Home Page - Useful Canadian news site
• BBC Home Page - Some non-American international news
• CNN Home Page - An American point of view

Some far more interesting news sites.

• The Register - A UK news site for technical news
• Slashdot - News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
• MacRumors - All things Mac. Mostly idle speculation.
• VersionTracker - Daily application updates.

Links for those interested in electronics.

• EE Times Online - Everything electronic.
• OpenCores - Collection of open source cores for FPGA programming.
• Custom PCB - PCBs from Malaysia, 5 days / $12 shipping, 2 x 8"x11" dual sided boards for $78.

Distributed systems and sensor network links.

• DLP Design - Produce ZigBee transceivers for $50, have both USB and serial.
• Chipcon - Providers of 802.15.4 wireless transceivers and developer boards.
• PICix OS - Free OS for PIC 18fXXX. Preemptive Kernel. Unix interface. TCP/IP stack