Commercial Links
Searches
Free Music/Sounds
Archive (a great media resource, none public domain)
Gravy Bread (very large list of free music sites/blogs)
(Wiki) MP3 Blog (huge source, none are public domain)
Musopen (classical; public domain, small)
Sounds (natural sounds; not music)
Work From Home
Work at Home BuzyMoms.com (building a community of Moms, Grandmas & Dads
who want to work from home or are already working from home)
Other
Byehost -- Good site hosting service
CG Talk (computer graphics -- forum & presentations -- very good)
Cooking (many, many really special recipes; receipezaar)
India (everything Indian)
Kall8 -- 800 and call forwarding services
SU Post -- Listings for Stanford University
Yelp (a fine, well organized community resource)
Robotics
Acroname; components, software; Brainstem robot, Garcia robot
AIBO -- Sony; walking robots
BaneBots; kits, toys, wheels, motors, hubs
Budget Robotics; components, kits, bases & platforms, building materials, electrical,
fasteners, grippers, servo accessories, wheels & casters
Coroware; robotics integration and embedded systems development services.
Creative Werks, Inc; electromechanical integration of RF devises in automotive, off-
highway, agricultural and powersports applications
Digi-Key; electronic components and parts
DM & P Group; embedded system integration, design and manufacturing
e-puck.org; educational robots
Futaba; radio systems, servos, gyros
Hasboro; toys, games, action figures, board games, digital games, online games
Lynxmotion; robot kits and components including arms, wheeled robots, and walking robots
parallax.com; robotics, components; Boe-Bot®, a reprogrammable robot kit and is
a resource for STEM programs forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx --
MaxBotix; very short to long-range detection and ranging
Maxx Products; mini, micro & Hitec/RCD MPI servos; Pack speed controls
Mindsensors; designers and makers of custom sensors, multiplexers and several devices
for hobby robotics
Lego; NXT robots, programmable robotics/construction toys
Mobile Robots; base technologies for robot application development and research
Phidgets are a set of PC "plug and play" building blocks for low cost USB sensing and control
Pololu; kits, parts, robotics, electronics -- forum at forum.pololu.com
RF Ideas; writers, readers, software, Wiegand converters
Robot Magazine; coverage of hobby, science and consumer robotics; forum
sharp-electronics.com -- Sharp, sensors
Surveyor Corp; for research, education, and exploration, the Surveyor's SRV-1
Tamiya; plastic and resin kits and accessories for the modeller
Tekscan; pressure mapping systems and force sensors and measurement systems
WowWee; consumer robotic and entertainment products
Miscellaneous (software) Robotic Links
Matlab
orocos.org (software) -- Orocos; Constraint-based motion specification application using two robots,
autonomous car, compliant motion task specification, real time ethernet, visual servoing, 3D motion tracking
sparkfun.com -- Sparkfun; Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform
symonym.com -- Symonym; allows the creation and optimization of advanced real-time physics environments
[Webots is a professional robot simulator]
darwin2k.sourceforge.net -- Darwin2K is a free, open-source toolkit for robot simulation and automated design. It features numerous simulation capabilities and an
evolutionary algorithm capable of automatically synthesizing and optimizing robot designs to meet task-specific performance objectives.
vxl.sourceforge.net --VXL. (formerly named "TargetJr"): initiative for vision research, similar to Orocos in the sense that it is (nothing more than) a set of libraries.
Geometry - Visualization links
Blender.org -- Blender, a very advanced 3D computer animation package.
dtecta.com/main/index.html -- SOLID is a software library for collision detection of geometric objects in 3D space.
Graphs - FSM - Component diagrams links
sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/flowdesigner/index.php?title=Main_Page -- FlowDesigner (was previously named Overflow), C++ framework for graphical building of components. It has a robotics component, RobotFlow:
FlowDesigner is a free (GPL/LGPL) data flow oriented development environment. It can be used to build complex applications by combining small, reusable building blocks. In some ways, it is similar to both Simulink and LabView, but is hardly a clone of either. FlowDesigner features a RAD GUI with a visual debugger. Although FlowDesigner can be used as a rapid prototyping tool, it can still be used for building real-time applications such as audio effects processing. Since FlowDesigner is not really an interpreted language, it can be quite fast. It is written in C++ and features a plugin mechanism that allows plugins/toolboxes to be easiliy added. FlowDesigner currently includes the following toolboxes; Communication Toolbox, Signal processing, Audio processing (DSP), Vector quantization, Neural network, Fuzzy logic, Octave plug-in, Robotics, Real-time audio effect processing (pre-alpha), Linear algebra using LAPACK (pre-alpha), OpenCV, Microphone Array-Based Audition for Mobile Robots (ManyEars)
In the same set of projects, marie.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page -- Marie is the newest, working towards ACE + CORBA as platform. MARIE is a free software tool using a component-based approach to build robotics software systems by integrating previously-existing and new software components. MARIE's initiative is based on the following main requirements:
Reuse softwares, APIs, middlewares and frameworks frequently used in robotics (Player, CARMEN, RobotFlow, etc.)
Adopt a rapid-prototyping approach to build complete system
Allow distributed computing on heterogenous platforms
Allow concurrent use of different communication protocols, mechanisms and standards
Accelerate user-defined developments with well defined layers, interfaces, frameworks and plugins
Support multiple sets of concepts and abstractions
Communication - Distribution links
corba.org -- Corba is not a software implementation, but a specification. Several Open Source implementations exist; GNOME uses ORBit; another one (more
extended, but with larger memory requirements and slower execution) is TAO. See Douglas C. Schmidt --
cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
Bayes links
openbayes.org -- Open Bayes for Python is a free and open source Bayesian Network library.
numpy.scipy.org -- NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python. It contains among other things:
a powerful N-dimensional array object, sophisticated (broadcasting) functions, tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code, useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random number capabilities. Besides its obvious scientific uses, NumPy can also be used as an efficient multi-dimensional container of generic data. Arbitrary data-types can be defined. This allows NumPy to seamlessly and speedily integrate with a wide variety of databases.
spasm.sourceforge.net -- Software for Probabilistic Analysis, Storage, and Manipulation (SPASM) s a templatised C++ library for the storage and manipulation of a
variety of probabilistic representations. Represenationtations currently considered are: Gaussian, Gaussian Mixtures, Parzen density Estimates, Particles and
Discrete grids.
Physics links
opende.sourceforge.net -- Open Dynamics Engine (ODE), DynaMechs, EasyDyn, MBDyn: libraries and programs for simulation of multibody dynamics. MBDyn
also has a realtime sub-project at --
aero.polimi.it/~mbdyn/mbdyn-rt/index.html Forum at -- groups.google.com/group/ode-users
euclideanspace.com -- mjbWorld is a program for 3D simulation of dynamics.
Computation links
gnu.org/software/octave -- Octave is built on top of the original FORTRAN code (through some C and C++ wrappers) from Netlib (public domain). (Netlib is where
most other matrix libraries, including Matlab, got their inspiration too.)
Motion control and planning links
linuxcnc.org -- LinuxCNC (formally known as EMC, Enhanced Machine Controller). The project has developed already a lot of functionality, targeted at machine tools
hobbyists.
axis.unpy.net/index.cgi/about -- Axis is a graphical programming interface on top of EMC, for traditional G-code based milling.
Real-time control and data acquisition links
rtai.org -- RTAI, xenomai.org/index.php/Main_Page -- Xenomai, ecos.sourceware.org -- Ecos, rtems.com -- RTEMS, ethernut.de/en/index.html -- Ethernut. The latter three are non-Linux operation systems, targeted at small footprint embedded systems (e.g., without memory management unit, TCP/IP stack or file system);
Ethernut is even meant for 8bit computers.
Voice Recognition Software
The Snow_Water Corporation -- Baby Safari.US -- Akilo.Com
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