The Baby Orangutan B-48 is a very compact but complete robot controller, packing a high-performance AVR microcontroller and two motor drive channels in the same … Read more
If you've been thinking your robot needs more memory or the ability to record/playback sounds like Frits's Drum machine or even if you just want to play with i2c … Read more
You buy a little thing, give it a wire with a serial string. And somewhere else you have a similar setup. And there you go; What you write to one, comes out of the … Read more
This is a really nice protoboard i found on Sparkfun. It basically is a standard perfboard, but every single hole is connected to the other ones on it. The cool … Read more
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Description: Yes you read that correctly - 10Farad capacitor. This small cap can be charged up and then slowly dissapated running an entire system for hours. … Read more
Hey guys,
I just finished designing and building a microcontroller board. The microcontroller board is basically an Arduino with extra features. The Roboduino … Read more
I have yet to order one, but these things are amazing! They take a input voltage of any value between 6.3V-30VDC and it outputs a steady 5VDC at up to 1A of power!
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The TPA81 sensor is a thermopile array detecting infra-red in the 2um-22um range. This is the wavelength of radiant heat. The Pyro-electric sensors that are used … Read more
Funnel I/O (FIO) is an Arduino compatible board designed by Shigeru Kobayashi, based on the original design from LilyPad.
Funnel is a toolkit to sketch your idea … Read more
This looks like a promissing new product from picaxe. A surface mount 28X2 on a circuit board with pins to add it to a breadboard. it looks a lot like the Arduino … Read more
Futurlec has a good range of components, their prices are reasonable, they have no minimum order charge and they deliver around the world. Postage is a bit slow … Read more
If you're ever in need of additional digital inputs or outputs then this chip may be an answer to your prayers. It only requires two connections from your … Read more
Great servo control on the cheap!
This is a bare-bones servo driver -no connects, no board. It does come however, with a resonator included. It uses a standard … Read more
These little 16mm spur gearmotors from BaneBots pack a pretty serious punch for the dollar. They boast a 600+RPM rating at no load with 1500ma. The 3mm shaft when … Read more
Very handy device. Just a small board with a picaxe serial socket and two resistors; (so it wont be hard to make one for yourself)
With the jumper you can … Read more
This compact sonar range finder by Maxbotix detects objects from 0 – 254 inches (6.45 meters) with 1-inch resolution for distances greater than … Read more
This generic version of the Joinmax digital gripper kit comes fully assembled and is a great way to allow your robot to manipulate objects in its environment. Read more
The Sharp GP2D12 is an excellent, well proven sensor. Its analog outputmakes is reliable and inexpensive, but a bit processor-intensive to use with a … Read more
For the bbb
The Bare Bones Board is an Arduino-compatible board (Freeduino) that implements the functionality of the Arduino Diecimila, on a smaller … Read more
This compact bracket enables convenient mounting of popular, Sanyo-style miniature metal gearmotors. The plastic bracket encloses the otherwise exposed gears, and … Read more
The Pololu 3pi robot is a complete, high-performance mobile platform featuring two micro metal gearmotors, five reflectance sensors, an 8×2 character LCD, a … Read more
This kit gives you everything you need to add a second level to your 3pi robot. In this version, the LCD pins are brought up to the expansion board from the base … Read more
This gearmotor is a miniature (0.94" x 0.39" x 0.47"), high-quality, low-current motor with 100:1 metal gearbox, similar to Sanyo’s popular … Read more
This kit gives you everything you need to add a second level to your 3pi robot. The red printed circuit board has cutouts that let you view the LCD below and make … Read more
This kit gives you everything you need to add a second level to your 3pi robot. In this version, the LCD pins are brought up to the expansion board from the base … Read more
This kit gives you everything you need to add a second level to your 3pi robot. The black printed circuit board matches the color of the 3pi and has cutouts that … Read more
