Useful Links for Robotics Hobbyists

 
 

Clubs

Arizona
Phoenix Area Robotics eXperimenters
California
Robotics Society of Southern California
San Francisco Robotics Society
San Diego Robotics Society
Sacramento Area Robotics Group
Home Brew Robotics Club
East Bay Builders Group
Connecticut
Connecticut Robotics Society
Georgia
Atlanta Hobby Robot Club
Georgia Tech Robot Lab
Illinois
Chicago Area Robotics Group
Central Illinois Robot Club
Iowa
Central Illinois Robot Club
Michigan
Robot Club of Travis City
Minnesota
Twin Cities Robotics Group
New Hampshire
Nashua Robot Builders Club
New Jersey
South Jersey Robotics Group
Central Jersey Robotics Group
New York
Union College Robot Club
North Carolina
Triangle Amateur Robotics
Oregon
Portland Area Robotics Society
Southern Oregon Robotics Society
Texas
Dallas Personal Robotics Group
The Robot Group
Washington
Seattle Robotics
Other
Laboratory Robotics Interest Group
Robot-Club & Grill
Lulea University Detpartment of Robotics
Art and Robotics Group
Vancouver Robot Club
CRASH
Robotics and Automation Laboratory

Summer Camps

Allen's Guide to Summer Camps
Robodyssey Summer Camp

Basic Electronics Education Sites

U.K. Technology Education Center
Tony's Electronics Web Page, U. of Guelph, Ont. Canada
Alex's Electronics Resource Library; Links to Electronics Tutorials
Scots Guide to Electronics; U of St. Andrews, Scotland
Control of Stepper Motors, University of Iowa
Stepper Motors - Dept of CS, University of London
Stepper Index - Electronics and Computers Surplus City
How to use disk drive stepper-motors - Helsinki University of Technology
Stepper motors: Arrick Robotics

Academic Robotics Departments

Robotics Institute at CMU.edu
Hagley R.C. High School D&T Dept.
Technology Studies, TCNJ
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (AUVS) at GATech
Harvard Robotics Laboratory
Indiana Robotics Sources
Iris at USC
MEAM - UPenn Mechanical Systems
MIT AI Lab
Mobile Robotics Research Group, Edinburgh
The Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, UMass
UC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Umich Mobile Robotics
Stanford Robotics Laboratory

Organizations

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Laboratory Robotics Interest Group Home
Standard Technologies of the Seattle Robotics Society
AAAI American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Rod Brooks' Personal Page
Popular Mechanics Magazine Online

Robotics Competitions

1997 International Aerial Robotics Competition
FIRST
Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition 2000
Competitions
KISS Institute Home Page

Beam Robots

BEAM Online
The Microcore
freeservers_microcore
BEAM ROBOTICS
Solarbotics - Your BEAM Robotics Resource
Beambotix

Walking Robots

The New Cricket by Henry Arnold
Stiquito Advanced Experiments with a Simple and Inexpensive Robot
Walking Machines Catalogue

Robotics Supplies

Used-Robots.com - Used Industrial Robotic Systems.
NPC Robotics - Components for battery powered mobility devices
Welcome to Thomas Register
Electronic Parts and Supplies - New and Surplus
PASCO scientific
Protel Advanced Set of Tools
Digi-Key Corporation Home Page
Welcome to Newark Electronics
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
McMaster-Carr Supply Company
Polaroid 6500 Sonar Ranging Module
Multiplex USA - mc_V2 Servos
Parallax, Inc.
American Science & Surplus
Mondo-tronics' Robot Store - Robots Kits, Muscle Wires, Electronics, Parts, and More!
Dan's Small Parts and Kits
Hallidie Machine Tools
Electronix Express - Electronics for Schools and Industry

Controllers

National Semiconductor LMD18200 3A 55V H-Bridge
BasicX by NetMedia Inc.
telcom-semi products-datasheets
Robotic and Microcontrollers Products
Basic Stamp FAQ
PicBasic,Basic Stamp,Pic,and 8051 Microcontroller Projects
Embedded Systems Resource Site - Microcontroller.com
Microchip Technology Inc. Microchip WebSite