Here are links to other information on mechatronics that I hope will help you find what you are looking for or help you explore the subject. The links below are by no means exhaustive. If you come across others that you think should be listed here or find any broken links, please let me know.

 

Index to the links:

Applications of mechatronics	Mechatronics in general
Design resources	Microcontroller resources
Electronics resources	Motor related
Magazines	Robots!
Mechatronics conferences	Software resources
Mechatronics education	Things mechatronic

 

Design resources

Dr. Lee's list of suppliers http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/sjlee/vendors.htm	Prof. Lee's list of suppliers for engineering products and services, including MEMS and lab supplies
Goodfellow http://www.goodfellow.com/	Metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, plus detailed technical data
Grainger http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/start.shtml	large supplier of mechanical, maintenance, and industrial supplies
McMaster-Carr http://www.mcmaster.com/	large supplier of mechanical, maintenance, and industrial supplies
Online machine shop http://www.emachineshop.com/	Makes your custom parts completely via the Internet. Low cost and convenient.
ExpressCNC http://www.expresscnc.net/	Another online machine shop. Also has links to free CAD software and surplus hardware
Silicon Valley surplus information http://www.junktronix.com/svss/	listing of Silicon Valley surplus dealers, swapmeets, etc.
The Thomas Register http://www.thomasnet.com/	exhaustive listing of US manufactures for virtually everything
Zycon http://www.zycon.com/	a new online industrial directory, engineering resource, and vertical search engine
Industrial Quick Search Directory http://www.iqsdirectory.com/	a comprehensive manufacturers directory
Where to find things http://www.stanford.edu/group/prl/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php?title=Supplier_Database	good list of places to get things for prototyping and projects (from Stanford University's Product Realization Laboratory)

 

Electronics resources

Andy's schematics www.geocities.com/lemagicien_2000/elecpage/elec.html	links to a ton of schematics and other electronics resources
Bowden's Hobby Circuits (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bill_Bowden/)	excellent links to a variety of electronic circuits for the hobbyist and other useful links
Circuits Archive http://www.ee.washington.edu/eeca/	the Univ. of Washington's famous database of electronic circuits, and more!
Data Sheet Archive http://www.datasheetarchive.com/	an extensive source for data sheets
DigChip.com http://www.digchip.com/	a comprehensive resource database on electronic components and circuits
EE Design Center http://www.chipcenter.com/questlink/	a comprehensive technical resource for the electronic design engineering community
EE Electronic Library http://eels.lub.lu.se/ei/7.html	an excellent up-to-date web library for EE subjects
EE Toolbox http://www.eg3.com/	important  resources for EE design
Electronics-manufacturers.com http://www.electronics-manufacturers.com	comprehensive industry resource for for electronics and electrical products
Hyperphysics http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html	excellent resource for explaining the underlying physics of electricity and magnetism
IC Chip Directory http://www.embeddedlinks.com/chipdir/	an excellent resource for finding numerically and functionally ordered chip lists, chip pinouts and lists of chip manufacturers, manufacturers of controller embedding tools, electronics books, CDROM's, magazines, WWW sites and much more.
Maxim's Design and Applications page http://www.maxim-ic.com/DesignApps/StartPage.htm	app. notes, design guides and more
Part Miner	a leading-edge online resource for online information and purchasing of electronic parts
Resistor Values Table	standard EIA decade resistor values table
Speed controller information http://www.4qd.co.uk/index.html	speed controllers for battery operated electric motors and more!
WWW Virtual Library for Engineering http://www.eevl.ac.uk/wwwvl.html	pretty close to everything on the web related to engineering!

Magazines

Circuit Cellar http://www.circellar.com/	practical, hands-on solutions for embedded systems problems
Dr. Dobb's http://www.ddj.com/	software tools for the professional programmer
Electronic Design http://electronicdesign.com/	current, in-depth coverage of emerging electronic technologies for design
Electronic Products http://www.electronicproducts.com/	current, in-depth coverage of emerging electronic technologies for design
Nuts & Volts http://www.nutsvolts.com/	Electronics & Technology for the hobbyist and professional
Scientific American's Amateur Scientist http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amasci.html	has some interesting electronics for science experiments

 

Mechatronics conferences

International Conference on Mechatronics (MECH2K2)	An international conference for mechatronics and acoustics, noise and vibration

 

Mechatronics education

Mechatronics at SJSU	information about the program here at SJSU
Mechatronics at Santa Clara University	embedded systems resource page at SCU
Mechatronics at Stanford University	web link to the Smart Product Design Lab (SPDL)
Mechatronics at UC Berkeley	web link to Prof. Auslander's web page
Mechatronics at Cal Poly, SLO
Mechatronics at MIT	web link to Fred Martin, a leading researcher in mechatronics
Mechatronics at Georgia Tech
Consumer Electronics at the Univ. of Wash.	a neat course dealing with design of consumer electronics
Peter H. Anderson's page	lots of neat stuff done with the parallel port, PIC microcontrollers, etc.
Links to Mechatronics programs elsewhere	programs in the US and abroad

Mechatronics in general

Mechanical Engineering, May 1997 Feature Article	a good overview that describes what Mechatronics is all about

Microcontroller resources (but don't miss valuable information from the manufacturer's web sites)

AVRfreaks web site (http://www.avrfreaks.net/)	the "official" site for Atmel AVR aficionados
Handy Board web site (http://www.handyboard.com)	the official site for the Handy Board, a 68HC11-based controller board designed for experimental mobile robotics work developed at MIT
Handy Board Mail List Archive (http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/handyboard/)	a focused discussion group for the Handy Board device: distribution of information of any sort about obtaining, debugging, or using the Handy Board design; troubleshooting problems; exchanging ideas and techniques; sharing code; etc
Microchip http://www.microchip.com/	manufacturer of the PIC microcontroller family
Micromint http://www.micromint.com/	a leading supplier of single-board computers and industrial embedded controllers
Mini Board web site (http://fredm.www.media.mit.edu/people/fredm/papers/mb/)	a single-board computer, about the size of a business card, optimized for controlling small DC motors and receiving data from various electronic sensors developed at MIT
Motorola http://www.mcu.motsps.com/	manufactures a broad range of microcontrollers (including the 68HC11 chip we use in the lab)
Parallax http://www.parallaxinc.com/	lots of information on the Basic Stamp, a PIC-based microcontroller
Roger's Embedded Microcontroller Page http://www.rasmicro.com/	a super source of information for those interested in the Motorola MC68HC05, MC68HC11 and MC68HC12 microcontrollers
Sparkfun Electronics http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php	offers a good selection of prototyping hardware and tutorials relating to electronics and microcontrollers.
The MicrocontrollerShop.com http://microcontrollershop.com/	claims to be, "the world's largest online selection of microcontroller tools". See their AVR-MT-128 board.
http://www.cera2.com/navi/micr.htm	lots of information on all aspects of embedded chips and microcontrollers

Motor related

Oriental Motor (http://www.orientalmotor.com/)	major manufacturer of stepping, ac gearmotors, linear actuators, and fans
Oriental Motor Stepper Driver Wiring (http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/bjfurman/courses/ME106/ME106pdf/OrientalMotor_Stepper_Driver_Wiring.pdf)	wiring diagram for 5-phase stepping motor driver and controller

Robots!

Chris Hillman's animatronics links (http://members.aol.com/C40179/index.html)	a ton of links on everything related to animatronics
Microsoft Robotics Studio (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/default.aspx)	a Windows-based software tool to create robotics applications and simulations
NASA robotic vehicles group (http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/groups/rv/homepage.html)	the folks who created Sojourner and other neat extraterrestrial vehicles
NATCAR (http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/natcar/)	a contest sponsored by National Semiconductor to build an autonomous race car
ROBO Games (http://www.robogames.net/)	billed as the world's largest robot competition
Robot Information (http://www.robotics.com/robots.html)	super resource for everything on robots!
Seattle Robotics Society (http://www.seattlerobotics.org/index.html)	an excellent resource for those interested in learning about and building robots
US First Competition (http://www.usfirst.org/)	a national engineering contest which immerses high school students in the exciting world of engineering. Teaming up with engineers from businesses and universities, students get a hands-on, inside look at the engineering profession. Lots of local high schools participate, so check this out and consider getting involved!

 

Software resources

C programming course www.strath.ac.uk/CC/Courses/NewCcourse/ccourse.html	Univ. of Strathclyde's course on C programming
C++ Online (CSC 114) http://legacy.ncsu.edu/CSC114/CSC114.html	Introduction to programming and problem solving using C++
GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) http://gcc.gnu.org/	Compilers for a host of languages and target systems
Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/	Full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set.
Developing Embedded Software in C Using ICC11/ICC12/Hiware http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/embed/toc1.htm	Nice overview of programming microcontrollers in C
GCC the GNU C, C++ Compiler Collection (for the 68HC11 and HC12) http://m68hc11.serveftp.org/	The GNU Compiler Collection integrates several compilers for many architectures. The C and C++ compilers have been ported for 68HC11 and 68HC12 micro-controllers
Interactive C for the Handy Board Manual http://www.handyboard.com/	the official IC manual; also gives a good brief review of some C basics
Numerical Recipes In C http://www.library.cornell.edu/nr/bookcpdf.html	online version of the classic text for all the numerical mathematical algorithms you will ever need
PIC C Lite compiler http://www.htsoft.com/products/piclite/index.html	Freeware version of the industrial-strength PICC ANSI C compiler. Supports the 16F877, 16F877A, 12F675, 12F629, 16F627, 16C84, 16F84 and 16F84A devices
Pacific C http://www.htsoft.com/	a freeware C compiler for MS-DOS
Programming template http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/bjfurman/courses/ME106/programming_template.c	a template for developing C programs
Standard C reference http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/c/	a comprehensive reference for Standard C
Turbo C 2.01 http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20841,00.html	a freeware C compiler for MS-DOS from Borland
WinAVR http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr	a suite of executable, open source software development tools for the Atmel AVR series of RISC microprocessors hosted on the Windows platform. Includes the GNU GCC compiler for C and C++.

Things mechatronic

Hacked Gadgets (http://hackedgadgets.com/)	lots of cool stuff "hacked" from all sorts of mechatronic devices. See also their links to other sites.
Instructables.com (http://hackedgadgets.com/)	the world's biggest "do-it-yourself" (DIY) and how-to site

   

   

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