Links

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The Awesome Cube™ was created by Jeff LeSueur, an electronics instructor in Kent, Ohio. This project is unique among electronic and tech ed project kits, because it is a captivating way for students to learn computer programming. The heart of the cube is a PIC microcontroller to control a five sided, 45 super bright LED cube.

Signal Electronics: Designs and manufactures electronics devices in the area of automation, remote controls and custom design. They also stock an IR barrier device with a range of nearly 120 meters.

Mister E : Cost effective solutions for electronic design, modification and software development. French service also available.

DeviceTools is a comprehensive and free portal, aimed at providing engineers who develop connected devices all the information needed to make their next design a success. A very nice resource for locating embedded development tools & software.

TVI Electronics
TVI Electronics is a designer and manufacturer of custom and standard TC553/852 controllers, based on Atmega16 and serial EEPROM, for Optrex F-51553/F-51852 128x64 cog monochrome stn lcds with four-wire resistive touch screen.

Robotshop.ca - Robot Kits, Parts, Toys, Vacuums and Mowers
RobotShop is your one stop robot store, where you will find domestic robots, such as the IRobot Roomba Scheduler and Scooba floor cleaner, but also robot toys, robot kits and robot parts to build your own robots.

Dahlquist Engineering Dahlquist Engineering offers Freelance and contract engineering services. A PIC based Rechargeable MAH tester ( AA/AAA cells ) is available. There is also a ready made 24 pin PIC minicontroller called "DE3". It runs on 6 to 15 vdc and has four built in 1.0 amp mosfets. It also has the Tolmie bootloader built-in.

A multidiscipline engineering firm specializing in the development of sophisticated hardware and software for industrial, commercial and scientific applications. Having significant expertise in physics, metrology, data acquisition and signal processing, ZE utilizes Visual Basic and PIC microcontrollers to design products and systems. From process control to hand-held instruments, the firm has long experience with RF data communications technology as well.

Creative Contraptions.com
Here you'll find an excellent assortment of creative control electronics to make your next Christmas or Halloween party come to life. Digital recorder for audio-wave files, Servo-relay data play back controllers, Lighting-serial play back controllers, Controller's for DMX lighting and effects, X-10 transmitters and receivers, Wall transformers for controllers, Audio cables, RJ11 cables, plugs, Prepackaged Halloween shows and props, Prepackaged Christmas shows and props. If you're looking for that special equipment to make your creations come to life, stop here first....!

www.al-williams.com
An excellent web site for the Basic Stamp enthusiast hosted by Al Williams. His new book titled Microcontroller Projects with Basic Stamps, is an excellent reference for the BASIC Stamp enthusiast. Al knows his stuff, and I recommend anyone planning to get serious about using the Basic Stamp grab a copy immediately. Click HERE and get one for yourself now.

www.seetron.com/
Scott Edwards Electronics. The "Original" Inventor of the Serial LCD. This site offers Serial LCD's, Counterfeit Basic Stamp Single Board Computers, FREE Serial Software, Serial Graphic LCD's, Mini SSC Serial Servo Controllers. If you need equipment with serial control capabilities this is the best place to find it. Scott is also the author of an "Excellent Book". Click the link to take a look. Programming and Customizing the Basic Stamp Computer.

www.dontronics.com
Simmstick, PICmicro and Atmel hardware and software products. Tons of great stuff here.

www.parallaxinc.com/
Makers of the Basic Stamp. A great place for sample source code, Basic Stamp information, Free Software for programming the Basic Stamp. Stamp based robots, all kinds of goodies. Note: Parallax has a Windows 95 version of the BS2 development environment at this site.

www.inventronik.de
Inventronik carries a line of surface mount PIC development modules with usb (and soon bluetooth) with software (source code, hex-firmware, pic burner software) for free (under GPL or BSD license).

www.microchip.com
Planet Microchip, for the latest information on Microchip Technology products.

http://www.tech-tools.com
Home of the ClearView Mathias ICE (In-Circuit Emulator) for the PIC microcontroller. We currently have & use the ClearView Mathias, and can't speak highly enough for this piece of equipment. If you're looking to cut down on your development time, this is a must-have item. You can also download the latest version of the Tech-Tools CVASM assembler for the PICMicro for FREE. CVASM is an assembler that uses the Parallax style (8051 type) assembly language for the PIC, and is very simple to operate.

www.HomeTechFLA.Com Home Technologies. Inexpensive 8031/51/52 and 8052 BASIC Development SBCs for Hobbyists, Industry and Robotists.

www.lvr.com/
Jan Axelson's Lakeview Research. Jan is the author of several excellent books. Serial Port Complete, Parallel Port Complete, The Microcontroller Idea Book, and Making Printed Circuit Boards. This site has many usefull links, and other tools for port I/O. Jan also has available many of her past articles from various publications. If you want to learn how to communicate with the outside world using your PC this is the "#1" place to find the info you need.

Abe Howell's Robotics; Home of CDbot. A fully autonomous programmable mobile robot. The New CDbot uses an OOPic micro-controller http://www.abotics.com

www.lynxmotion.com/
Jim Frye's robot page. Lot's of really fun Robot Kits. Hexapods, Walkers, Rovers, Robotic Arms etc...Jim's robots are controlled using the Parallax Basic Stamp Single Board Computers, making them extremely easy to control. His robot kits come with outstanding documentation, and are easy to assemble. If you're looking for quality robot kits, check this site out.

www.robotics.com/
Arrick Robotics home page. You just have to go see for yourself all the stuff available here.[Awesome].

www.robotstore.com/
Mondo-Tronics robot store. If you are into robotics and want parts to build them, here it is. Kits, books, parts, muscle wires, you name it, it's here.

www.legomindstorms.com/
Lego's home page. For the kid in all of us. Yep! it's really robotics stuff, they even offer a software developers kit to program the control module in Visual Basic.

www.lawicel.com/
Embedded hardware/software together with 8051/C16x and smart distributed I/O with Controller Area Network (CAN).
Makers of SBC's with 8051 derivatives, and supplier of Embedded Pascal for the 8051/Z180/AVR.

www.rigelcorp.com/
Rigel Corporation. Makers of excellent 8051 products. 8-bit & 16-bit microcontroller kits, training, FREE software, books. My personal favorite for 8051 equipment. Have a look at their IDE software with assembler, editor, monitor, download, and debug capabilities. click

www.atmel.com/
Atmel Corporation, makers of the AT89C2051 flash based microcontroller.

www.8052.com/
The 8052 Online Resource courtesy of Vault Information Services. A nice 8052 Simulator, and a tutorial for the 8052 and Dallas DS80C320 High Speed Microcontrollers. Visitors will find the tutorial very informative and the 8052 Simulator priced just right. If you are new to 8052 Programming, or and old Pro, this is a useful site. [Check this one out].

www.glolab.com
Remote control RF modules for microcontroller projects. Sense and control almost anything with these 418 MHz transmitter and receiver kits. You can see one used in a project in the April 1999 issue of Popular Electronics magazine.

www.holtek.com/
Holtek Corp. Makers of the HT-12D/HT-12E Decoder/Encoder integrated circuits, lot's of other very interesting remote control IC's, app notes, schematics etc...

www.linxtechnologies.com/
Linxtechnologies makes RF Modules that come in pretty handy when you need wireless control of your micro projects. They have an informational page for the RF Challenged also.