Test
Free sound effects
YPS feed
Unix Software I Might Want to Use Some Day
Power Supplies/Chargers:
Game Boy Camera Info:
Page with
links
http://www.wau.nl/hemeltje/temporary/personal/retina.html
http://pages.zoom.co.uk/andyc/camera.htm
home.earthlink.net/~apendragn/gbcam/
http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~s9906768/pic/proj_gbc.html
Image
Processing links
Texas Instruments' site has a wealth of info about
machine vision, and its implementation (using their
DSP's of course). Goto www.ti.com, click on the TI&ME
link, register, and search for 'vision'. You will find
several PDF's with schematics and theory on machine
vision.
AVR Info
Disk Drive Stepper Motors
Robot Stuff
- GDS-1
- OpenSLAM: Simultaneous localization and
mapping
- Linux RF
Schematic RF link based on Linx chip.
- Conductive rubber
for making flex sensors.
- Images SI COCompany in Staten
Island that carries the UCN5804 stepper driver.
- WaySmall Computers
- Pulse counter
co-processor.
- Hall
effect absolute position encoders
- Java Robot Framework
- Herky the Robot: Included code
for a 8 servo controler on an Atmel AT90s8515
- Class Notes on
robotics, See the Syllabus specificly.
- Ocean State Electronics:
Large supply of older parts.
- Serial LCD
modules.
- Ben Skora built Arok, the big robot with the Franekstien mask face.
- Toward More
Realistic Pathfinding - article from gamasutra.
- Ray's Robot - wood
base, home made sonar.
- Rodney
the Robot being developed by Bob Mottram, has an interestintg vision
system using 2 QuickCam's for 3d and face recognition.
- Robotic Helicopter Project
- Junun.org:
Better prices on Devantech stuff.
- Goldmine Electronics
Surpluss house.
- AAI Systems:
Larger robots and an arm.
- U of
Washington Mobile Robotics
- Monte Carlo
Localization
- The Albert
Project - Robot with 5-sonar arangement and a mood-based AI
- Pacific Neo-Tek: Use your
palm pilot as a remote.
- nBot: Two
wheeled ballancing robot.
- The Orocos Project: C++ classes for
robotics under Linux.
- Biobotics: - Something I mean
to read when I have the time.
- Robot
Positioning
useing IR and Ultrasonics (send both at same time, measure difference in
reception time to determine distance.)
- Home made
sonar, multiplexed even.
- Heathkit Hero-1
- Tutorials on graphics,
edge detection, etc.
- All Electronics: In addition
to electronics, they have lots of little gears and stuff.
- Stock Drive Products / Sterling
Instrument: Stock and custom gears and drive train parts.
- CAESAR
From the U. of Frankfurt Institute for Applied Physics Computer Vision.
- Shadow Robotics of England makes
the Shadow
Hand.
- US Digital provides relitively inexpensive
optical encoders, and decoder IC's
- Robot ear
for a spider bot
- X-Vision - track
camera images under linux.
- i2c
camera modules
- Hack an optical
mouse
- Electronic
Journal of Computational Kinematics
- Tri-star wheeled robot al-la
Damnation Alley
- Acrylic Domes
in sized 5 - 96 inches.
- Electrical
Engineering Calculators
- Lexan Dome
to use as a robot head.
- Small Parts Inc
- Nodex - More small parts (gears,
etc)
- Robotic Hand
- Diverse Electronics:
Motors, high voltage controllers, other misc stuff
- Free Trade Zone - Here's THE
best link for datasheets of all kinds of IC's
- Info on the
HD44780 LCD controller chip
- Robots and home
automation
- Tucker Balch's Home PageWealth
of robot info, including a Path planing algorithm, somplace in there.
- Easy Printed
Circuit Board Fabrication Using Laser Printer Toner Transfer
- Robotoid From Gordon McComb,
author of The Robot Builder's Bonanza
- Budget Robotics - also from
Gordon
- Servolink: Low cost plastic
gears.
- Making
a PCB in your Kitchen
- Yahoo PCB
Group
- Olimex: Cheap PCB prototypes
- Mabuchi
Motor specs
- Motion Control Mall
- Ferrettronics: chips for
servo and stepper control over a serial line.
- WZ Micro: Has LMD18200 for
$9 each !
- Magnevation is putting
together various robot-oritent kits and PCBs. Right now they have a PWM
motor control PCB that will accept the LMD18200 for $12 !
- Motor
Speed Board using the LMD18200
- Rossum's Playhouse
Robotics simulator.
- Nu Blue Robot
platform
- MABLE - Mobile
Autonomous Bearer of Letters -- includes books he uses.
- Robotics Rampage
- Eye Bot -
microcontroler with eyes
- Joker Robotics: uses above.
- Zagros Robotics
- The Robotics Club -
includes a section on making a high-torque motor drive.
- Robot Vision
Systems
- How to make an Android head
- Lynxmotion Robotic arm kits
- MBROLA - text to
speach
- Adrobot /
topo Robot Info
- Mekatronix
- Simple Object
Locator using 'Chirps'
- Future-Bot Components
- Voice synth
- Another
Voice
- HVW Technologies Robot parts and
controls.
- Acroname, Inc. - Robot parts, and
the brainstem microcontroler network interface
- Geck Systems Carebot
- Herbach and Rademan
- Steve's Electronic
Resources - 1,000 files.
- Boondog Automation - PC Interface
Projects, including using an 8254 for PWM
- Columbia U Robotics Lab
- Arrick Robotics
- Turn a motor into a
servo
- Encoder:
The NEwsletter of the Seattle Robotics Society
- Low Resolution
Vision System
- Plans and links,
including an electronic compas and serial PLC servo controler,
- Arthur Ed
LeBouthillier's Robot: PC on a Max base, vision under windows.
- Red Cedar Electronics has posted
info about the Vortrax SC-01 voice synth chip.
- - Developed at Cal Poly, ATMega32 based robot controller board.
- PID
Systems tuning From the U of Exiter
Lojban and
Loglan