FabLabing
Ideas to explore:
Electronic book (highLowTech poppable)
Edible electronics with gelatine
Vinyl cut cooper circuits
Vinyl cut double sided adhesive sheet to create circuits
Magnet connectors
Capacitive button inside a 3D printed object
Capacitive button on the reverse of a paper print
Wifi microcontroller ESP8266 aliexpress
Oil filled boxes for weatherproofing electronics
Shadow poem http://people.artcenter.edu/~jsong5/thesis/
123D Autodesk, interlocked slice
Lasercut food
Book binding http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~daniela/finebinding/
Laser cutting
La chambre blanche experiments logbook
Inkscape http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
Gcodetools included
Stroke text included (Render->Hershey)
http://fabble.cc/uploads/attachment/content/550a01616769742fb8821f00/SLITLIGHTEG101A.exe Slit light creator, convert an grey levels image to circles of lines for lasercutting
Visicut, OSX controller for Epilog https://hci.rwth-aachen.de/visicut
"Vinyl" record http://www.instructables.com/id/Laser-Cut-Record/
LAOS Laser, hardware and software http://redmine.laoslaser.org/projects/laos/wiki
GCode plugins
http://jtechphotonics.com/?page_id=2012
Laser cutting attachement for 3D printer
http://f3.to/re_site/purchase/l-cheapo/
http://jtechphotonics.com/?product_cat=laser-and-driver-combo-kits
Resources
highlowtech.org A very inspiring MIT Media Lab research group
www.kobakant.at/DIY Extensive collection of resources for materials in DIY electronics
www.plusea.at More projects in alternative interfaces and electronics
http://fabmodules.org/ Format converter
Battery
Sewed snaps as electrical connectors
Old cellphone battery, using the cellphone as charger
LiPo battery packs for RC modeling
LiPo battery needs a circuit to balance the discharge of its different cells
Backup cellphone battery (power bank), usb 5V, all electronics included, cheap and easy to find