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Fun Robot Stuff
Cool Robot Websites
  • Robots at the Tech Museum
  • BBC - Robots and Roboteers
  • NASA's ROVer Ranch
  • NASA's Robot Work Crew
  • NASA's Spacelink Robotics
  • Android World
  • SONY's Dream Robot - Pics and Videos
  • The Tech's: Get a Grip on Robotics
  • Robot Invasion
  • JPL Robotics
  • Biomimetic Robotics
  • Honda's ASIMO
  • Fujitsu's HOAP-1
  • Real Robots on the Web

Cool Engineering Websites
  • Building BIG
  • Build-It-Yourself
  • How Stuff Works Express!
  • How Stuff Works
  • How Gears Work
  • Junkyard Wars
  • Secrets of the Lost Empires
  • Joey Green's WackyScientist.com
  • Physics 2000
  • How Things Work
  • Simple Machines Demonstration - COSI
  • Gears from the Century of Progress
  • Wireframe - A study in motion at Vector Lounge
  • Science Technology & Engineering
  • ASME's - Great Achievements in Mechanical Engineering
  • Engine Mechanics
  • Gears & Gear Trains

Fun places to visit
  • The Bay Area Discovery Museum - Sausalito, CA
  • The Exploratorium - San Francisco, CA
  • The Tech Museum in San Jose, CA
  • Current Science and Technology Center - Boston, MA
  • COSI - COlumbus Science Institute - Columbus, OH
  • Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago, IL
  • The RobotHut Museum - Spokane, WA
  • Chabot Space Science Center - Oakland, CA
  • NASA Ames Visitor Center - Moffet Field, CA
  • Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA
  • Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia, Burlingame, CA
  • ZEUM at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
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Robotics in the classroom
  • Tuft's Lego Curriculum Pages
  • Lugnet Robotics Education Pages
  • Robotics Education Project
  • Teacher Resources
  • Design Challenges
  • Stamps in Class
  • ROBOTS ALIVE!
  • CMU Robotics Education
  • LEGO Links of Linda Hamilton


  • [For more go to the teacher resource pages]

Robot Events & Competitions
  • First Lego League
  • RoboCup
  • RoboCup Jr.
  • Trinity LEGO Cybernetics Challenge - robot volleyball
  • US First
  • BotBall
  • ROBODEX Japan
  • Soz Bots - Sixteen Ounce Fighting Robots
  • BattleBots
  • MIT's 2.007 - Remote controlled robot competition
  • MIT's 6.270 - Autonomous robot competition
  • Western Canadian Robot Games
  • DARPA Grand Challenge
  • RoboFest
  • UCSB RoboChallenge
  • RoboMaxx
  • Robolympics

Electronics & Robotics Part Suppliers
  • The Robot Store
  • Robot Books.com
  • LEGO Shop at Home
  • Parallax Inc.
  • Lynxmotion
  • Jameco
  • Digi-Key
  • Mouser
  • Small Parts Inc.
  • Solarbotics - Your BEAM Robotics Resource
  • Haynes Enterprises
  • FerretTronics
  • Rabbit Semiconductor
  • Basic Micro
  • Acroname
  • Arrick Robotics
  • OOPic
  • RobotStuff.com
  • Evolution Robotics
  • HobbyTron
  • Mr. Robot
  • Robot Toys
  • Beam Online
  • Rogue Robotics
  • Super Droid Robots
  • Wizard Devices
  • Hosfelt Electronics
  • DC Electronics
  • Electronic Goldmine
  • Electronic Surplus Inc.
  • SDP/SI - Mechanical components, gears, etc
  • Surplus Sales of Nebraska
  • eMachineShop
  • MCIIRobot
  • B.G. Micro
  • All Electronics
  • RobotZone
  • ServoCity
  • Herbach & Rademan
  • American Science & Surplus
  • Alltronics
  • C&H Surplus
  • Hoffman Industries
  • MPJA Online
  • MECI
  • WierdStuff Warehouse

Fabrication Stock Suppliers
  • Metal Supermarkets
  • Online Metals
  • Tap Plastics

Online Games
  • LEGO SimBot
  • LEGO Mindstorms - RoboHunter 2: Spy City
  • Theseus and the Minotaur
  • BotBlox
  • BBC - Technolab Showcase
  • Rommy Robot
  • Robocode
  • RoboSoccer
  • Stack-it
  • Spybotics Game
  • Blix
  • RoboStrike
  • Lunar Lander - Chabot Space Science Center
  • Gears
  • SodaPlay - Build an online contraption

Clubs and Organizations
  • San Francisco Robotics Society of America
  • Homebrew Robotics Club
  • KISS Institute for Practical Robotics
  • Seattle Robotics Society
  • Robotics Society at Southern California
  • San Diego Robotics Society
  • Portland Area Robotics Society
  • Dallas Personal Robotics Group
  • Phoenix Area Robotics Experimenters
  • Nashua Robot Builders Club
  • The Austin Robot Group
  • Raleigh Triangle Amateur Robotics Group
  • Connecticut Robot Society
  • Atlanta Hobby Robot Club
  • Twin Cities Robotics Club
  • Vancouver Robotics Club
  • Central Illinois Robotics Club
  • Lazy Toad Robot Club
  • Southern Oregon Robotics Club

Toy Hacking
  • AiboHack
  • i-Cybie Disection
  • B.I.O. Bug Vivisection
  • Furby Autopsy
  • Furby Plastic Surgery
  • Rumble Robots Autopsy

Automata - Toys you can make!
  • Flying Pig
  • Cabaret Mechanical Theater
  • Neil Hardy's Fabulous Animals
  • Designing Automata
  • Tom Haney's Articulated Artwork
  • Walter Ruffler's Paper Machines
  • The Mechanical Toys Page

Online Robot Reading
  • Engines of Creation - The Coming age of Nanotechnology
  • Beyond Black Boxes
  • LEGO/Logo and Electronic Bricks: Creating a Scienceland for Children
  • In a Child's Tiny Bricks, the Logic of Computers
  • Jonathan Knudsen's LEGO
  • Behavior Based Robotics
LEGO Mindstorms
  • Official LEGO Mindstorms Site
  • Constructopedia
  • LEGO Mindstorms Information - formerly maintained by Fred Martin at MIT
  • Lego Design and Programming System
  • LEGO Mindstorms Internals
  • RCX Internals
  • Vision Command Information
  • Dave Baum's Lego Site
  • The Art of LEGO Design by Fred Martin
  • Locomotion - Examples of common LEGO gear ratios.
  • WebBrick: Mindstorms telerobotics made easy
  • WebRCX - Telerobotics
  • HiTechnic Products - Mindstorms compatible sensors
  • Philo's - Wheels, Tyres, and Traction - An analysis

Mindstorms Programming
  • ROBOLAB
  • NQC - Not Quite C
  • NQCEdit
  • MacNQC
  • Bricx Command Center (BrickxCC) 3.3
  • LEJOS - Java for the RCX
  • LEGO Programmable Bricks Reference Guide
  • pbForth for Mindstorms
  • RCX Java API
  • Lego Mindstorms Visual C++ Win32 Interface
  • legOS
  • legOS - How to
  • TclRCX
  • Dolphin Smalltalk
  • LEGO Scheme
  • LOGO FAQ - Non Mindstorms
  • MSWBrick - Using the Lego RCX Brick with MSW Logo
  • Squeak - Non Mindstorms but very cool.
  • OnScreen Programming for Lego Mindstorms
  • LEGO-RCX Perl module at CPAN
  • RCX.PM Webpage for Perl Module
  • Mindstorms JINI Tutorial
  • Palm and the RCX
  • BrickOS (C & C++ for RCX)
  • MIDI to RCX
  • Interactive C (IC)
  • XS:Lisp
  • TinySoar: Soar AI architecture +TCL
  • Ruby
  • Competitive Odometry and Dead-Reckoning
  • Phantom - The Spirit.ocx Replacement

Other LEGO Sites
  • LEGO Set Inventories
  • Lugnet
  • Technica - Technic Part Registry
  • BrickSet - LEGO Set Guide
  • Bricks on the Brain - Building Instructions Portal
  • Brickshelf
  • Bricklink - LEGO Supplier
  • Briktrak - Inventory management for your collection
  • BrickVista

Other people's LEGO robotics projects
  • LEGO Mindstorms Inventions
  • Gaston
  • Boulette's Robotics page
  • JP Brown's Serious LEGO
  • JP's Rubik's Cube Solver
  • CSSoh's Science & Creativity Shoppe
  • The Shop
  • Sergei Ergorov's LEGO Pages
  • Robot Zoo
  • LEGO Biped Links
  • Lee's LEGO Mindstorm Hexapod Walker
  • Creating a Spider Robot using LEGO-Mindstorms
  • Jin Sato's MushiMushi-7 Walker Tutorial
  • Philo's Lego Mindstorm and Technic Pages
  • Ben's Lego Creations
  • Erik Brok's LEGO Thoughts
  • Doug's LEGO Technic Tri-Star Wheel ATV and Robotics page
  • Webdog Automata
  • Kevin's Lego Page
  • Mario Ferrari's Lego Pages
  • Mark Crosbie's Lego Pages
  • Hemple's LEGO Models and Robotics
  • Wes's Mindstorms Page
  • Rolighed's LEGO Mindstorms Page
  • Jennifer Clark's Lego Construction Site
  • Zhengrong Zang's RCX Controlled LEGO Train Projects
  • T.J.'S LEGOŽ Creations
  • Eric Sophie's Mecha
  • Mike Fusion's Technic and Mindstorm's Page
  • The Hut
  • Plastikaa
  • Creativeminds' LEGO
  • Joe Nagata's - Mindstorm's Gallery
  • Nate's Lego Mindstorms
  • CHQ, Robots, Robots, Robots!

LEGO CAD
  • LDRAW
  • MLCAD
  • LeoCAD
  • LDView
  • LdLite
  • BlockCAD
  • L3P
  • L3P Add On (L3PAO)
  • POV-Ray
  • MLCADT Tutorial
  • LSYNTH - Bendable LEGO Parth Synthesizer
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  • LPub - a LEGO documentation pulishing tool
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Other people's robotics & electronics projects
  • Ohm's Law - Check out the designs for Floppy-bot
  • Bob Blick's TechRef
  • Robot Room - Homemade robotics & electronics
  • Home Brew Robotics Club Builders Book
  • Dale's Homemade Robots
  • Karl William's Robotics Page

FAQs, Publications and Information Resources
  • Robotics FAQ
  • Netsurfer Robotics
  • Robot Science and Technology Magazine
  • UMass Robotics Internet Resources Page
  • Circuit Cellar Magazine
  • Nuts and Volts Magazine
  • Robot Cafe.com
  • AceUplink
  • Mark's Robotics Homepage
  • MachineBrain.com - Robotics & Smart Machines
  • RobotCombat.com
  • Eric Weisstein's - World of Science

University Robotics Departments
  • Stanford Robotics Laboratory
  • MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab
  • MIT's Media Lab
  • MIT's Leg Lab
  • Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
  • UC Berkeley Robotics Lab
  • Mobile Robotics Research Group, Edinburgh University
  • Lego Project, Edinburgh University
  • Georgia Tech Mobile Robot Lab
  • Dartmouth Robotics Lab
  • Biorobotics Lab at Case Western University
  • LEGO Lab, University of Aarhus
  • Autonomous Mobile Robotics Lab at University of Maryland
  • USC Interaction Lab
  • LEGOBots at Indiana University
  • LEGObots at Brown University
  • Robotics Design Studio at Wellesley College
  • AILab, University of Zurich

People you should know about
  • Albert Einstein
  • Richard Feynman
  • Nikolai Tesla
  • Thomas Edison
  • Marvin Minsky
  • Rodney Brooks
  • Alan Kay
  • Don Knuth
  • Alan Turing
  • Issac Asimov
  • Archytas Of Tarentum
  • Philo of Byzantium
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Seymour Papert
  • John McCarthy
  • Hans Moravec

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