Links
Here’s a collection of sites I’ve found useful and/or entertaining on a variety of topics:
Nature, plants and gardening
- UF/IFAS Extension
Very useful for gardening and environmental issues but covers all sorts of Florida related topics. Check your local office for available classes. - Native Florida Wildflowers
Dr. Huegel’s blog is a great resource for looking up Florida plants. Keep an eye out for his “open house” plant sales! - Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Information on native wildflowers from the University of Texas at Austin. - Natives For Your Neighborhood
Look up South Florida native plants, habitat and wildlife. - Florida’s Nature
Good overview of Florida wildlife and plants. - Sweetbay Nursery
Excellent native plant nursery in Parrish, FL. - The Xerces Society
Loads of great information about the conservation of invertebrates and related habitat. - Bumble Bee Watch
Collaborative “citizen science” effort to track bumblebee sightings. - Florida Native Plant Society
Organization devoted to the conservation of Florida’s native plants. Lots of local chapters. - Florida Wildflowers & Butterflies
Information from the Florida Museum of Natural History about some of the more common butterflies and wildflowers in Florida. - Big Earth Supply
All sorts of gardening and landscaping supplies at good prices. - FigBig
Auction site primarily for fig trees and cuttings. - USDA Interactive Zone Map
Interactive map for finding the plant hardiness zone for a location.
Electronics
- Spark Fun Electronics
Tons of components, boards, microcontrollers and such. Decent prices. - DigiKey
If you need electronics they have almost anything and usually the best price. - Newark element14
Another good source of electronic parts, connectors and related items. - Adafruit Industries
A nice selection of Arduino and Raspberry Pi related gear. Best product descriptions and tutorials, as well as a great blog. - PCJR
Manufactures my favorite family of microcontrollers, Teensy - MCM Electronics
Some different selections and seems to have the best prices on Raspberry Pi related gear. - Maker.Pro
Maker collaboration site; collection of assorted projects. - Hackaday
Tons of hacking/maker projects, articles and assorted contests.
Sailing
- Tartan 27 Owners Yahoo! Group
Group for anyone who owns or is interested in Tartan 27 sailboats. Most activity has moved to groups.io and Facebook after Yahoo! changed Groups to not allow hosting user created content. - Tartan 27 Owners on Groups.io
Semi-official continuation of the Yahoo! group for Tartan 27 owners. - Tartan 27 Owners group on Facebook
Facebook group for discussions about the Tartan 27 sailboat. - Defender
Usually the best prices around for all manner of boating and marine supplies. Keep a weather eye out for their warehouse sale in late March or early April.
Good Day,
I had a question regarding the “Links” page on your website. Are you accepting suggestions for the page?
If you are, I would like to suggest adding Maker Pro under the “Electronics” header. They are an active, open source platform for maker projects much like Hack A Day. These projects are centered around Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Intel Edison, home automation and more. And better yet, the content is completely user generated. Here is the URL for their website if you would like to have a look:
https://Maker.Pro/
Let me know what you think of this suggestion or if you need any additional information!
Best,
Reynand