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Amazing Picture Machine
- A searchable database of pictures on most topics. Key in the description and
it looks for pictures which match.
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Design & Technology - Post 16
Design & Technology Key Stage 4
Design & Technology Key Stage 3
- North Yorkshire L.E.A. student links to D&T related sites - some useful
stuff on most aspects of D&T.
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Design & Technology Online HomePage
- An interactive site providing useful
information for most D&T areas
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Flying-Pig
- Unusual name for a site about paper engineering.
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How Stuff Works
- This site is full of explanations about how things work
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Electronics
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AQA Design and Technology
- The AQA examinations board site visit here to print off past papers and
Examiners reports.
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BBC
GCSE Bitesize Revision - Useful revision tips and information on D&T subject areas.
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Wooden
Toys
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Industrial
Designers Society of America - Some
useful stuff on materials processing, particularly Injection
Moulding and the design
history of the chair
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Design
Insite - A Danish site (in english) providing a designer's guide
to manufacturing. Manufacturing processes & materials are
described as well as the products where they are used. Purpose is to
inspire designers to consider materials and processes which are new
or unknown to them. Useful for basic info.
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Material
Selection and processing - A resource to aid good practice in
the selection of materials for product design. It has information on
materials, properties, processes, product design and more.
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The
British plastics Federation - Excellent site for plastics and
plastics processing. Straightforward descriptions of common
polymers, together with mechanical properties, corrosion resistance
and a case study application for each material. Processing database
contains useful descriptions, together with really dinky animations
showing the operation of each process!
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Materials
by Design - site, produced by Cornell university, to introduce
high school and undergraduate university students to advanced
engineered materials and their impact on our everyday lives.
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Machine
Design.com - An annoyingly slow site but full of information - Try
Technology Zones
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Teachers
Workshop - A site prepared by the University of Illinous
Materials Science and Technology Department. Contains modules of
work on Metals, Ceramics, Polymers, Semiconductors, Concrete and
Energy.
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Association
of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe - Interesting site
containing lot's of information on Plastics.
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Component
Failure Museum - Part of the Open University site - looking at examples
of Material and component Failure.
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The
Anatomy Of Wood - This site has articles about the structure, density
and characterisation of wood. Gives some insights into its strength and
other physical properties. Another section is on plant fibre textiles that
are used in paper, non-woven and wovens manufacture.
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Polymers -
Virtual Textbook - Some excellent but very detailed stuff on
polymers
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Britannica.com
- Britannica.com is a free knowledge and learning center it includes the
complete, updated Encyclopędia Britannica,
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Encarta
- Microsoft Encarta On-Line is a free encyclopędia with a reference area
and study centre |
