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TeamUR Robo-Project Illustrated

Robo Links

The following links point to the locations in the Internet, which looked to be useful for the project development.

Robots

Literature - top of robotic links

	Stanislaw Lem - "Cyberiad" This is one of the books, which started my fascination with robots. Lem's sense of humor and vision are unbeatable for me. Yes, Lem is the author of "Solaris" - novel, on which was based remake of Tarkovski's movie.
	Daniel Mroz - "Gallery" Aren't they alive? Aren't they cute?

Microrobots

	Millibots - The Carnegie Mellon University Very interesting example of robot community. Very precisely defined goal. In couple PDF documents described behavior and construction of the robots. Unfortunately not many details, small pictures.
	Pearl - Tiny Mobile Robot built by CHOI CHAN HAK Couple great designs of microrobots. High quality pictures, full construction description in... Korean.
	The Ants: A Community of Microrobots - MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Unfortunately now retired group of robots. Detailed description of construction, behavior and the experiments.
	1cm3 robots - Laboratorie de Microinformatique Really tiny robots! Micro servos..
	1/4 cubic inch robots - Sandia National Laboratories Really tiny robot!.

Minirobots

Software for Controlling Multiple Autonomous Robots
Great photos and movies of the robots in action.

Electronics

Microcontrollers

Microchip/PIC - producer of the family of RISC microcontrollers.

	FLASH PICmicro®MCUs the microcontrollers with flash memory onboard.
	NEWFOUND ELECTRONICS Pty Ltd. - PIC programmer. PICSTART® Plus alternative half of the price! Just does the job. Great!

Analog Devices

ADuC812 = 8-Channel 12-Bit ADC + Dual 12-Bit DAC + 8K-Byte Flash MCU

ADuC834 = 24-Bit ADC + 16-Bit ADC + 12-Bit DAC + 62K-Byte Flash MCU

Semiconductors

Atmel Corporation

Allegro Free samples!

5804 BiMOS II Unipolar Stepper-Motor Translator/Driver

National Semiconductor Free samples!

LM2595 - Energy efficient Simple Switcher Power Converter 150 KHz 1A Step-Down Voltage Regulator

Texas Instruments Free samples!

SN754410 - Quadruple Half-H Driver

Other Electronics

Acroname - good source of robotic parts.

Pioneer - huge number of available types electronic components.

Sharp - great selection of optoelectronics. Samples!

Dinsmore Sensors - electronic compass. See our review first!

All Electronics - good source of cheap surplus stuff. The problem is kind of long order completion time.

Solarbotics - good source robotic parts. The website is dedicated primarily to B.E.A.M. robots but you can find general parts like motors

Motors

Hitec - producer of subminiature servos like HS-50 and economy HS-55 (hacked).

Stepping Motors

Control of Stepping Motors, a tutorial by Douglas W. Jones
Great explanation of basic principles of stepping motors and stepping motor control systems. Bunch of nice animations illustrating how the things work.

Mechanical parts/devices

McMaster-Carr - source of our not very expensive subminiature plastic sprockets and chain.

Other friendly websites

Sutherland Studios - art jewelry

OurYardSale - yard sale treasures