List of Vendors and Sources of Robot Related Components
Sensors
- NanEye Tiny camera system (even stereo!)
- Hamamatsu Optics Various Smart Sensors
- u-Blox 30mm x 30mm GPS Products!
- NavTech GPS Products
- Trimble Navigation GPS
- Newton Labs Vision Systems (Cognachrome)
- Supercircuits Miniature Cameras
- MicroVideo Miniature cameras and Tx/Rx
- OmniVision Single-Chip Analog & Digital Cameras (8- and 16-bit outputs)
- JAI See the posibilities
- Panasonic Video cameras
- Spectron Inclinometers
- Honeywell/A> measurwment sensors.
- Reiker Inc. Accelerometers & Inclinometers.
- Analog Devices 1- and 2-axis accelerometers
- US Digital Encoders and inclinometers.
- SICK Laser range finders.
- ATI Force Sensors, grippers, quick-change end effectors
- JR3 Force Sensors
- Entran Miniature Load Cells, force sensors, accelerometers, pressure
- Measurements Group Foil straing gages and accessories
- Contrinex Proximity sensors
- Vaisala Environmental sensors (ammonia, CO2, weather)
Actuators
- RobotWorx
- Adept Mobile Robots (Pioneer robots)
- Micro Mo DC Motors
- Maxon DC Motors
- Escap DC Motors (R/A gearmotors)
- Smoovy Miniature (3mm, 5mm, 8mm) Brushless Motors (Now owned by MicroMo)
- Aerotech Linear stages
- Newport Linear stages
- ThorLabs Linear actuators
- PI Linear actuators, multi-axis stages
- Danaher Motion Linear actuators
- Pittman DC Motors
- ST Microelectronics H-Bridges L6205 for Tbot
Processors
- Xilinx Virtex FPGA series
- Xilinx Virtex II Pro FPGA with embedded PowerPC core
- Xilinx Virtex 4 FX FPGA with embedded PowerPC core based on ASMBL
- Charmed Labs Xilinx FPGA development environment for Game Boy.
- BYU Linux on Virtex II page Help in configuring open-source Linux on Xilinx
- Atmel ATmega and ATtiny microcontrollers.
- PonyProg Serial Device Programmer (Atmel and PIC MCUs and others)
- WinAVR Atmel AVR dev tools
- Microchip PIC processor.
- Inhand - Small (70mm x 70mm) PDA dev platform
- Logic - Small (2.6" x 2.6") PDA dev platform
- Motorola - PowerPC 823, Engineer's Toolbox<
- Intel - StrongARM processor
- Cogent Computer - Embedded Development Tools for PowerPC 823, StrongARM, MIPS
- Windriver
- Toshiba MPEG 4 Encoder Chip.
- Cell Computing - Credit-card sized Pentium PC
- VersaLogic Pricing
- Parallax BASIC Stamp.
- Maximintegrated TINI products.
Misc. Hardware
- Super Magnet Man Tiny rare earth magnets
- Nth Degree Lighting Printable OLEDs
- Protomold Inc. Injection molded parts in 3 days
- Westar Manufacturing WI machinists
- North American Roller Products - Omnidirectional Wheels (630-858-9161)
- Stock Drive Products Precision gears and components
- PIC Design Precision gears and components
- McMaster-Carr Hardware, industrial supply
- Grainger Hardware, industrial supply
- Maryland Metrics Precision gears and components
- Kimball Vast hoards of miscellaneous hardware (including batteries).
- Kollmorgen Servo motors and amps.
- Element Products, Inc. A Full-Service Product Development Company
- R/M Equipment, Inc. M203 Grenade Launchers
- DRC-Metrigraphics Precision Micro Flex Circuits (pricey)
Radios
- Bermai 802.11x chipsets
- ZigBee Silicon Labs
- Infineon integrated Bluetooth chipsets
- Integration Associates Sensory Inc. which makes speech recognition chips
- Time Domain Corp. UWB chip sets
- MicroVideo Miniature video transmitters/receivers
- Elsema Miniature transceivers
- Bluetooth RF Consortium
- Cambridge Silicon Radio Single-Chip Bluetooth producer
- RF Monolithics Surface-Mountable Receivers and Transmitters
- UCSB AODV Group Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector - Approach to ad-hoc routing
Batteries
- Tadiran Lithium Batteries
Embedded Systems RTOS
- Avocet Systems, iSYSTEM USA, and 2500AD
- Embedded.com Embedded Development Tool
- Eyring Corporation
- Texas Instuments
- NOHAU Corporation Home Page
- On Time | Real-Time and System Software
- QNX Software Systems Ltd. Home Page
- TASKING: Embedded Software Development Tools
- Opal-RT
- Real-Time Innovations ControlShell and Stethoscope
- Windows CE Supported CPUs
- Windows Embedded
- 13 Windows CE myths Microsoft propaganda that seems to confirm the myth that CE is not hard real time
PC/104 Boards
- Technology 80, Inc. Motion Control
- Galil, Inc. Motion Control
- Real-Time Devices, Inc. Motion Control, GPS, CPUs
- Sensoray, Inc. Motion Control and Frame Grabbers
- InSync Technologies, Inc. Frame Grabbers
- CyberOptics Semiconductor
- Versalogic, Corp. Single-Board Computers, I/O
- WinSystems, Inc. Single-Board Computers, I/O
Other I/O Hardware
- Sensoray, Inc. Motion Control and Frame Grabbers for ISA, PCI
Info/FAQs/Links pages
- Field Robotics Center
- Active Robots Educational robot kits
- Dr. Robot Educational robot kits, humanoid
Useful Links
- MisterHouse Home Automation
- IS Robotics MUMS
- Palm Pilot Robot Kit CMU Kit for Small Robot
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Dept.
Copyright: © 1999-2016 by Richard Voyles
rvoyles [at] purdue [dot] edu