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Here is my comprehensive list of actuators for the DESMA 256 - Interactive Environments course:
http://users.dma.ucla.edu/~datadreamer/256/actuators.html

In it you will find information on motors, shape memory alloys, light bulbs, electroluminescent semiconductors, speakers, heating and cooling devices, relays, and transistors.

Here's my research into mobile development for Interactive Environment class.
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~yunsil/IEResearch/mobileDevelopment.pdf

Here's my research into mobile development for Interactive Environment class.
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~yunsil/IEResearch/mobileDevelopment.pdf

Main page and three sub-pages with material properties and online resources:
Fun Materials>>

copy and paste this link because I don't know HTML BABY!!!!

http://users.design.ucla.edu/~oleary/em/index.html

Click the title on this link to go through the spectrum and some of its interesting uses.

Reference:

Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Crticial Design
Anthony Dunne
MIT Press

This is a totally awesome website that includes lots of tutorials for hacks into various controllers (from RC cars to old video game console joysticks). The motivation for the website is to make these games and devices more accessible to people with severe learning and/or physical disabilities. It's a great resource for people who are simply interested in how interfaces condition behavior, reinforce ideas of the normal, and exclude other types of experience, or new ways of experiencing technology.

A lot of links related to lo-fi, circuit-bending, hacking electronics, and making noise. Includes forums, schematics, galleries, as well as stuff having to do with game mods, 8-bit inspired creations, etc.