Some technical computing things that are useful.
Webpage coding: http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
Electrochemical cell - plating, hydrolsysis of water (other materials?) & Electrophoretic deposition
Project Ideas - Dreammachine - Soundcard Oscilloscope - Arduino Oscilloscop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ky_N5-Fu6M
LCD screen from Nokia 5210 is apparently a LPH7779 which can work with Arduino
Arduino Uno (R1 Clone) can be bought on Amazon for ~12€.
To build your own Arduino you need : 1)
Latest project looking at Beam Robotics
25.10.2014: Weather from dob garden can now be viewed real-time at : http://wikidobia.info/weather/
calulate Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu Zotac Zbox as media server
ubuntu gnu/linux
The one true editor EMACS
List of addons for emacs, the emacs lisp list
libre office
email/calendar: google
Skype
Music player / podcast catcher : subsonic
Movie player/encoder : Mplayer
Editing images : gimp
Editing sound : Audacity
Editing video : Kino
Ripping/encoding DVD : Acidrip
Ripping/encoding CD : Grip
Sage
For matlab : Octave
Open Source web templates: http://www.oswd.org/