Saturday, December 16, 2006

Stores

Lynxmotion (www.lynxmotion.com) has one of the best selections of robot kits we've seen, as well as a wide variety of individual parts. For real DIYers, Lynxmotion offers Lexan robot parts laser-cut to your specifications.

The Mondo-tronics Robot Store offers a huge selection of robot kits, literature, and parts. Here you can buy muscle wire, BASIC Stamp components, and robot-related books, movies, and posters. Many products have downloadable PDF manuals that you can view before you buy.

Nelnick Robotic Solutions is a robotics and electronic online store with everything for the robot builder, from gear boxes to sensors. Prices are aimed at hobbyists rather than industrial-sample builders: You can find a stepper motor for $1.89 and an $8.99 RF receiver board.

Parallax is the manufacturer of the BASIC Stamp, a general-purpose microcontroller pro-grammable in BASIC. The BASIC Stamp has been the brains of many a robot because of its ease of use and relatively low cost. The Parallax site also offers dozens of project kits and accessories.

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