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Books

  • John B. Knudson The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots
    O’reilly and Associates, Inc. CA 1999
  • Joe Nagata’s Joe Nagata’s LEGO MINDSTORMS Idea Book
    No Starch Press CA 1999
  • Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio Evolution of a new species: Robosapiens
    The MIT Press Cambridge, MA 2000
  • Horowitz and Hill The Art of Electronics
    Cambridge University Press, NY 1990

Links (Mainly just EE reference and parts vendors)

ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Digi-Key parts distributor, also good for looking up spec sheets
Maxim big semiconductor manufacturer, can request samples online
Chipdir good for finding IC pinouts
Acroname Boulder-based robotics distributor, produces the BrainStem controller
Robot Room interesting robot-related info, particularly Robot Sumo rules
Epanorama lots of electronics info and links, especially circuit schematics
Aaroncake lots of circuits
Battlebots check out their rules (daunting!)
Art's Homepage not much here, but the resistor color-code calculator may be helpful
ITLL Website look at the Design Expo and the Design Studio information
Robo02 information on last year's Robo Expo. Our robot is on the front page
(it's the one on the right)! Keep checking Robo03 for information on
this year's Expo
Parallax home of the BASIC Stamp. Look at the Basic Stamp Manual.
It's big (2MB!) but worth reading
All Electronics cheap surplus. Be careful though, they give out vouchers instead
of real refunds if they're out of stock
AS&S check out their robot parts
MPJA Online more surplus
NPC Robotics Battlebot parts
IFI Robotics Battlebot speed controllers
Batteries.com batteries
Robot Cafe look at robots other people have built
CURC Forum join the CURC online discussion forum on Yahoo Groups