This page contains links to pages relevant for robotics projects.
- Books & Newsletters - | 
   
       
   
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   comp.robotics.misc
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   In addition to
   robot books,
    you will also find a selection of robot toys, movies, educational toys, magazines,
    motors, and robot kits.
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   The
   Newsletter
   of the Seattle Robotics Society
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- Electronic Distributors - | 
   
       
   
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   Conrad Electronic
   is het grootste postorderbedrijf in elektronica van Europa.
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   Digi-Key Corporation
    is one of the fastest-growing electronic component distributors in the World.
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   Mouser Electronics
   is one of the 30 largest supplier authorized distributors of electronic
   components in North America. Mouser Electronics' product line includes
   Semiconductors, Passives, Interconnects, Electromechanical, Power Sources,
   and Specialty Products.
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   Jameco Electronics
   is a catalog distributor offering a comprehensive selection of electronic
   components and computer products.
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   MPJA
   - Electronic Mail Order Supplier 
   Supplier of aggressive priced computer accessories, power supplies,
   electronic kits, LCD, LED, CCD cameras, etc.
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- Robot shop's - | 
   
       
   
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   Solutions Cubed
   provides a range of products for use by electronic enthusiasts and OEMs.
   Their products have found their way into NASA weather balloons, ATM
   machines, animatronics, and school bell alarms. Our line of Miniature
   Engineering Modules (or Mini-Mods) takes common engineering requirements
   and simplifies access to a variety of functions.
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   Acroname
   was founded in 1994 with the intention of making robotics easier.
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   Devantech Ltd.
   - A source of electronic modules and components to robot builders.
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   Parallax Inc.
   - Home of the Basic Stamp and a source of electronic modules and
   components to robot builders.
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- RF & communication - | 
   
       
   
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   Lemos International, Inc.
   is a full-service, multi-role firm that specializes in the sale,
   distribution and management of state-of-the-art RF and microwave
   components and subsystems.
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   Linx Technologies
   specializes in low-cost wireless modules and OEM RF product solutions
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   KVASER Controller Area Network pages 
   Kvaser is a technology provider of CAN software, hardware, consultation and
   education to the global market of CAN developers.
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   S.N.A.P
   is an free and open network protocol. The protocol was primary developed
   for PLM-24 based home automation and control systems but it is a generic
   protocol and not limited to this. S.N.A.P can be used in any type of
   applications where an easy to learn and light weighted network protocol is
   needed.
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   ePanorama.net
   Optoelectronics and optics page
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  Information and links about
   Serial Communications
   collected by David Cary.
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- Sensors & Actuators - | 
    
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   The Gameboy Camera
   
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   These pages describe a frame-grabber that aquires images from up to 4
   Mitshubishi Retina cmos image sensors (as found in Nentindo Gamboy Cameras)
   simultaneously, and can be connected to either a microprocessor's bus or to
   a bidirectional parallel port.
   
 
   - Using the
   Gameboy Camera
   for Robot Vision
   
 
   - AVR +
   GameBoy(tm) Camera
   = Fun
   
 
    
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   The CMUcam
   is a new low-cost, low-power sensor for mobile robots. You can use CMUcam to
   do many different kinds of on-board, real-time vision processing.  Because
   CMUcam uses a serial port, it can be directly interfaced to other low-power
   processors such as PIC chips.
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   KUBE
   is a supplier for Passive Infrared Motion Detectors to the alarm industry,
   automatic light switch manufacturers, military, automotive industry and
   many other fields of automation and robotics that require the detection of
   the presence of people or other hot objects.
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   Quadravox ,Inc.
   specializes in stand-alone sound output systems and the tools needed to
   create and support them. Their visible product line is concentrated on the
   support and application of ISD's (Information Storage Devices) analog
   recorder chips and MP3 coding.
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   The Votrax
   SC-01A Speech Synthesizer
   is a phoneme synthesizer of the early 1980's.  It is capable of unlimited
   English speech using a stream of phoneme codes as input.
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   Winbonds New
   
   WTS701 Text-to-Speech Processor Enables More Realistic Speech Synthesis
   for Low-Resource Consumer Applications. 
   There are several modules available: 
   - Devantech Ltd's SP03 - Text to Speech Synthesizer 
   - Emic Text-to-Speech SIP Module 
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   The SoftVoice text-to-speech
   system (SVTTS) converts unrestricted English and/or Spanish text into highly
   intelligible, natural sounding speech in real time. SVTTS uses no recorded
   speech, so it has an unlimited vocabulary.
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   Sensory, Inc.
   is the leading provider of embedded speech recognition and speech synthesis
   technologies.
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