Links you may find useful
Kits & Information - Beginners start here
- Science Kits: Robot kits
- Kits USA: Cheap robot kits and many others
- Society of Robots: Many useful robot tutorals, calculators and "how to" info
- Ohms Law Calculators
- Physics Resources: How real electric motors work
- Jameco's Robot Store: Robot kits and parts
- Vex Robotics: Erector Set style robot building kit
- Parallax: Robot kits and parts
- The Robot Room: David Cooks site has lots of robot projects
- Lynxmotion: Walking robot kits
- Lego Mindstorm: Lego based robot kits
Robot Parts Stores
- The Robot Store: Motors, chips, sensors etc.
- Spark Fun: Sensors, GPS, LCDs, and much more
- Parallax: Basic Stamp and more
- Lynxmotion: Robot kits, motors and more
- Servo City: Servos
- Pololu: Parts, kits, custom laser cutting of plastics
- Robot Marketplace: Combat robot parts, motors, batteries, R/C TX/RX
- NPC Robotics: Combat robot motors and more
Engineering units converters
Native Linux PIC development tools
- gpsim and gpasm, free PIC assembler and simulator for LinuxC2C, a shareware PIC C compiler for Linux and other OS's
- Newfound Electronics: PIC programmers with available native Linux driver
I have the Warp-13 model
Click here to D/L the Linux driver for the Warp-13 (34K tgz file) - Free Linux driver for the PICSTART Plus programmer
- Eagle schematic and board layout editor for Linux
Atmel AVR microcontrollers
- AVR Tutorial
- Free Linux AVR development software (C compiler, Assembler, Programmer, etc)
- AVR Freaks web site (Windows centric)
- AVRdude programmer software for Linux (works with many programmers)
- Atmel AVR Programmer (serial port type)
- PDF file with programmer schematic and theory of operation
Atmel AVR free development tools for Mac OS-X
- MacPorts Required to install run AVR development tools
- avr-gcc C compiler for AVR
- avr-libc C library for AVR
- AVRdude AVR programmer for Apple Macintosh OS-X
RF modules for short range telemetry
Motors
Batteries
Materials Properties
- Properites of Metals
- Another properties of metals page
- Properties of materials
- NiTi Actuator Wire Properties
Misc.
- Ten Precious Joules. Various ways to store 10 joules of energy.
- Toms R/C Page: Info on R/C car motors and Servo reversing
- Make your own wheels
- Cast your own silicone tires
- Lens field of view calculator for 1/4 and 1/3 inch image sensors
- How PID (Porportional Integral Derivative) control systems work
- Collection of Kinematic Mechanisms
- Gearwheels from hell
- Active Filter Design Tools
Machining
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