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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:
Dr. Lee's list of suppliers
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/sjlee/vendors.htmProf. 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.shtmllarge supplier of mechanical, maintenance, and industrial supplies
McMaster-Carr
http://www.mcmaster.com/large supplier of mechanical, maintenance, and industrial supplies
MFG.com
http://www.mfg.com/the largest global online marketplace connecting manufacturers and buyers of manufactured items
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 Electrical Resource
http://www.theelectricalresource.com/an electrical construction resource
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_Databasegood list of places to get things for prototyping and projects (from Stanford University's Product Realization Laboratory)
Andy's schematics
www.geocities.com/lemagicien_2000/elecpage/elec.htmllinks 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.htmlan 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.comcomprehensive industry resource for for electronics and electrical products
Hyperphysics
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.htmlexcellent 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.htmapp. notes, design guides and more
a leading-edge online resource for online information and purchasing of electronic parts
nice tool to determine a resistor's nominal resistance from its color bands
standard EIA decade resistor values table
Speed controller information
http://www.4qd.co.uk/index.htmlspeed controllers for battery operated electric motors and more!
WWW Virtual Library for Engineering
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/wwwvl.htmlpretty close to everything on the web related to engineering!
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.htmlhas some interesting electronics for science experiments
An international conference for mechatronics and acoustics, noise and vibration
information about the program here at SJSU
embedded systems resource page at SCU
web link to the Smart Product Design Lab (SPDL)
web link to Prof. Auslander's web page
web link to Fred Martin, a leading researcher in mechatronics
a neat course dealing with design of consumer electronics
lots of neat stuff done with the parallel port, PIC microcontrollers, etc.
programs in the US and abroad
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.phpoffers 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.
lots of information on all aspects of embedded chips and microcontrollers
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
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!
Robotics Into The 21st Century
(http://www.qwiktag.com/index.php/knowledge-base/149-future-technologies-robotics)Links to what is coming in robotics
Robot History Timeline
(http://www.used-robots.com/robot-education.php?page=robot+timeline)A concise history of robots from used-robots.com
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!
C programming course
www.strath.ac.uk/CC/Courses/NewCcourse/ccourse.htmlUniv. of Strathclyde's course on C programming
C++ Online (CSC 114)
http://legacy.ncsu.edu/CSC114/CSC114.htmlIntroduction 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.htmNice 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.htmlonline 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.htmlFreeware 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.ca template for developing C programs
Standard C referencehttp://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/c/a comprehensive reference for Standard C
Turbo C 2.01http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20841,00.htmla freeware C compiler for MS-DOS from Borland
WinAVR
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavra 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++.
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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