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Member Submitted Links

• The XPort
  This tiny device has a full OS running a TCP stack with loads of protocols. It has 256K Ram, 512K flash, 385K for web pages.
• Cornell University Microcontroller Design Final Projects
  
• Parallax's Gas Powered Robot
• Society of Robots
  A good site for beginners
• The Journey Robot
  Another great looking robot from David P. Anderson. Really nice use of IMU to supplement odometry. Especially cool is the hat-trick video.
• A transforming robot
  Sometimes it's a car, sometimes it's a humanoid robot
• The new Lego Mindstorms
• OmniTread
  A serpentine robot. Even better than the Shrimp robot. Check the video. Real cool.
• "Emiew"
  2 wheels, 4 feet tall, 6km/h, from Hitachi
• Shrimp III
  Can climb very large obstacles relative to its size

• Rambling robots show human efficiency
• Ted Larson's balancing robot
  Cool use of the CMUCam 2!
• Martial arts robots hit Asian tech fair
• Really cool humanoid videos
• A nicely constructed walker
  Check out the '3D' PCB that he's using
• A tiny Linux controller board.
  200 MHz, 4M flash, 64M RAM
• Using Lego Mindstorms to solve the Rubic's Cube
• Great articles (in 18 chapters) on choosing and caring for batteries
• Personal Robotics News
• LegWay
• nBot Balancing Robot
• Eagle schematic and layout software
• How to use Eagle schematic and layout software
• MachineGrid - articles, tutorials, projects
• Cyberbotics
• RC servos
• ROBOT Science- Technology Magazine's Online Supplement for Educators, Students
• Welcome to BattleBots(TM)
• What is PID - Tutorial
• J.A. Sethian - Fast Marching Methods and Level Set Methods
• A robot gallery provided by Arrick Robotics
• CareBot from Gecko Systems

Motor Control

• Control of Stepping Motors - A Tutorial by Douglas W. Jones
• PID Control Information from John Shaw

Robot Plans

• Cricket the Robot
• Johann Borenstein - Mobile Robots, Obstacle Avoidance, Odometry, Positioning, etc..
• Kam's Homepage
• My Robots
• Roganti's Robotics Zone
• Shadow Robot Project_ Biped Walker
• SRAT
• Student Papers From Previous Semesters
• The Yoda Project
• Workshop Documentation

Sensors

• Bill Harrison on IR detectors
• Dennis's OK Web Page
• Dinsmore Sensors
• Implementing Infrared Object Detection
• Infrared `Radar'
• Larry Barello
• Paul's Cheap Sonar Range Finder Design
• PIC Based Imaging Sonar
• Sci.electronicsFAQ - IR ASCII Schematics

Vision

• RoboRealm - Free Image Processing Software
• Improv - Image Processing for Robot Vision
• CMUcam
• AVRcam

Competitions

• Robot Sumo
• Robothon Sumo
• USA Robot Sumo - Japanese champions come to the US! $2000 first prize.
• All-Japan Robot Sumo - Worlds largest robot competition with 3000 robots entered!
• North East Indiana Robot Games - Three weight classes of Robot Sumo Mayhem
• Robot Sumo - The annual competition also features rope climbing, maze, and other events
• RoboTag - Autonomous Mobile Robots Playing Tag
• BEAM_WCRG Robot Games Homepage
• 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition - MIT's famous robot competition
• Aerial Robotics Competition - This is the place for smart helicopters and blimps
• BattleBots - The most dangerous collection of battling robots in the world.
• BotBall - Teams of High School students have six weeks to design, build, and program a mobile robot
• Trinity Fire Fighting Robot Contest - Autonomous robots extinguish fires in a maze
• FIRST - Corporations sponsor local High Schools across the US.
• Intelligent Robot Contest - Sendai, Japan.
• Micromouse Competition - The UC Davis Micromouse page
• MIROSOT - The Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament
• RoboCup - The International Robot Soccer competition
• RoboRama - Robot competition sponsored by the Dallas Personal Robotics Group
• Robot Battles - Head-to-head combat with other 'bots
• Robothon - The annual competition of the Seattle Robotics Society
• Western Canadian Robot Games - Canada's premier robotic event includes Robot Sumo, BEAM, and Robot Hockey