Technology

Arizona Microchip

Home of the PIC microcontroller, among other devices.

BURKS online

BURKS (the Brighton University Resource Kit for Students) is a non-profit set of 4 CDs containing over 2 gigabytes of useful resources for computer science students. Includes a range of tutorial and reference material ranging from short introductions to full-length textbooks, as well as several hundred megabytes of software.

Dabs

Computing retailer

Evesham Micros

PC retailer

Maplin

Electronics and components

Radiospares

Electronic equipment and components

Techsupplies

Online shop for electronic, robotic and educational technology projects.

Technofair

Computer fairs in Kent.

ThinkGeek

"Stuff for smart masses"

Esp@cenet

European patent database

TINI: Tiny InterNet Interface

Tiny InterNet Interface (TINI) is a platform developed by Dallas Semiconductor to provide system designers and software developers with a simple, flexible and cost effective means to design a wide variety of hardware devices able to connect directly to corporate and home networks.

Controller Area Network (CANbus)

High-integrity serial data communications bus for real-time control applications

AeroVironment: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Company producing UAVs, such as Helios (High altitude solar plane, for eg telecommunications) and Black Widow (micro air vehicle, for eg intelligence gathering).

Introducing Lego Mindstorms

Page by Tony Hirst (dept of telematics, Open University) on Lego Mindstorms & potential in technology education.

Java Lego robots

Jose Solorzano's leJOS is a Java programming environment for Lego Mindstorms. This article describes leJOS's architecture, tools, and APIs, providing several code examples along the way.

Lego Mindstorms Internals

A resource and links page for Lego Mindstorms.

Official Lego Minstorms site

Official site from Lego. Products, community, inventions.

Robot Store

Components, kits, product information. (American site).

OOpic - Object Oriented PIC

Microcontroller with library of classes & objects for control/robotics.

Robotics FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for the internet robotics newsgroups comp.robotics.misc and comp.robotics.research. Provides a resource of answers to commonly (and some uncommonly) asked questions regarding robotic systems, organizations, periodicals, and pointers to numerous other resources on the net.

Shimoyama-Matsumoto-Hoshino Laboratory

Department of mechano-informatics, Tokyo University. A variety of interesting projects on robotics, biological interfaces, sensors etc.

Radio Control web directory

Resource and links page for radio control hobbyists.

Totalrobots.com

UK-based robotics suppliers. Controllers, robots, communications, kits.

The Crystal Set Society

Books, parts, kits, plans.

Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ

Sci.Electronics.Repair Frequently Asked Question(s) Home Page. Features Samuel M. Goldwasser's "Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of..." series of comprehensive repair guides for consumer electronics equipment and other household devices. Information of interest to the electronics hobbyist, experimenter, technician, engineer, and possibly even the dentist and poet. Included are the now quite comprehensive and massive "Sam's Laser FAQ", schematics, links to technology related sites. Documents from other sources on electronics troubleshooting, repair, and other related topics.

How Stuff Works

Useful, though advert-rich, site on technology, with clear explanations. Beware the pop-ups.

The LED museum

Everything you ever wanted to know about light emitting diodes. And then some.

Plasma Sphere

Resource page for Plasma Balls