U of Mn Collaborative Systems Lab list of Vendors and Sources

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)
• ST Microelectronics Camera Chips (8- and 4-bit outputs)
• MagnaChip Imaging chips (8- and 10-bit outputs)
• Hitachi Video cameras
• Pulnix Precision video cameras
• Sony Video cameras
• Panasonic Video cameras
• Spectron Inclinometers
• Sensotec Force, torque, pressure & acceleration 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
• A.L. Design Miniature Load Cells, 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

• Nomadic Technologies
• NanoMuscle Linear SMA actuators
• Mitsubishi PA-10
• Real World Interface
• ActiveMedia (Pioneer robots)
• Micro Mo DC Motors
• Maxon DC Motors
• Escap DC Motors (R/A gearmotors)
• Smoovy Miniature (3mm, 5mm, 8mm) Brushless Motors
• 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
• Klingauf page for Linux on Virtex II The original support documentation
• UIUC page on Linux on Virtex II
• LART Processor Small, Low Power StrongARM-based CPU board that runs Linux
• Alchemy Semiconductor Low Power MIPS Processor
• 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 for PowerPC 823
• Intel - StrongARM processor
• Cogent Computer - Embedded Development Tools for PowerPC 823, StrongARM, MIPS
• EST Corp - Embedded Development Tools for PowerPC 823, StrongARM, MIPS
• STPC PC on a chip from ST Microelectronics
• Toshiba MPEG 4 Encoder Chip.
• Cardio - Credit-card sized PC
• Talix - Credit-card sized 386 PC, ethernet
• Cell Computing - Credit-card sized Pentium PC
• PC/104 Information
• Diamond Systems Pricing
• VersaLogic Pricing
• Parallax BASIC Stamp.
• Dallas Semi TINI Java processor w/Ethernet.

Misc. Hardware

• 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.
• Wirz Electronics Miscellaneous sensors and motor driver circuits.
• R/M Equipment, Inc. M203 Grenade Launchers DRC-Metrigraphics Precision Micro Flex Circuits (pricey)

Radios

• Bermai 802.11x chipsets
• Ember 802.15 (Bluetooth) chipsets
• Infineon integrated Bluetooth chipsets
• Integration Associates EZRadio, low-cost, one-way FSK chip sets with Sensory Inc. which makes speech recognition chips
• XtremeSpectrum Inc. UWB chip sets (acquired by Motorola)
• Time Domain Corp. UWB chip sets
• Nomadic Technologies Spread Spectrum
• MicroVideo Miniature video transmitters/receivers
• Elsema Miniature transceivers
• McLaren Transceiver Module
• Bluetooth RF Consortium
• Cambridge Silicon Radio Single-Chip Bluetooth producer
• RF Monolithics Surface-Mountable Receivers and Transmitters
• Philsar Semiconductors Surface-Mountable Receivers and Transmitters
• UCSB AODV Group Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector - Approach to ad-hoc routing

Batteries

• Tadiran Lithium Batteries
• Sanyo Rechargeable Batteries

Embedded Systems RTOS

• Avocet Systems, iSYSTEM USA, and 2500AD
• Embedded.com Embedded Development Tool
• Eyring Corporation
• GO DSP Corporation
• NOHAU Corporation Home Page
• On Time | Real-Time and System Software
• QNX Software Systems Ltd. Home Page
• QNX Educational Pricing
• TASKING: Embedded Software Development Tools
• The EE Compendium
• US. Software
• LegOS OS for Lego Brick
• 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
• Imagenation Corp. Frame Grabbers
• Versalogic, Corp. Single-Board Computers, I/O
• WinSystems, Inc. Single-Board Computers, I/O

Other I/O Hardware

• Vivid Communications PCMCIA Frame Grabbers, Video projectors
• Sensoray, Inc. Motion Control and Frame Grabbers for ISA, PCI

Info/FAQs/Links pages

• Embedded Processor and Microcontroller primer and FAQ
• comp.robotics FAQ Table of Contents
• Robotics Internet Resources Page
• Active Robots Educational robot kits
• Dr. Robot Educational robot kits, humanoid

Useful Links

• Voyles' PUMA Page
• Silicon Valley HomeBrew Robotics Page (R/C Servos, Steppers, sensors, etc)
• MIT Wearable Computer Home Page
• MisterHouse Home Automation
• CMU CyberScout Page (dead)
• CMU Millibots Page (CyberScout follow-on)
• CMU Micro Vision Engine
• IS Robotics MUMS
• Sandia National Labs MEMS Acoustic Chemical Sniffers
• Sandia Cube Robots
• Palm Pilot Robot Kit CMU Kit for Small Robot
• Novel Ground Plane Thesis Fabriacation strategy for stopping surface waves in ground planes
• Ducted Fan UAVs Allied Aerospace (Micro Craft)

Copyright: © 1999-2003 by Richard Voyles
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.