Current Equipment

Sensors

• Encoders- Rotation Sensing
  • Light Sensing Devices
    • Light Sensing Devices by TAOS
    • Nubotics Optical Encoders
  • Magnetic Hall-Effect Sensing
    • Optek OH090 this was used on RasLow see IGVC 2006 RasLow Paper
    • Gear Tooth Allegro Hall Effect Sensor
  • Optical Mouse Positioning
    • SPI driver optical mouse positioning with PIC micro on an ER1 evolution platform

Robotics Companies

• Parallax
  • Low Cost Robotics Sensors
    • Magnetic Compass
    • Accelerometer , Gryos

• Acroname
  • Wide Variety of Sensors
• Pololu
  • IR Beacons

Microcontrollers

These are different Microcontrollers RAS has used at one time that should still be around for any interested parties

• Freescale '12s uses Codewarrior
  • 9S12C32 - NanoCore Tech Arts Board on WhinyRAS (Spr06)
  • HC812A4 - eval board on Kim Smith (Spr04/05)
  • HC812B32 - B32 datasheets

• Z-world Rabbits
  • Rabbit 3000 - Ground Vehicle, RoboCup? Omni Drive robot
  • Rabbit 2000 - (on servo controller for IARC )

• PIC Microchip
  • 16F on servo controller for IARC
  • 18F on VEX edu- controller

Embedded X86

• PC104 166Mhz Geode
• Gumstix
  • Robostix module
  • CFstix

Video Cameras

• Logitech QuickCam PlayerStage Driver
• Canon - Ultura -A ( I don't see it listed on www.linux1394.org )
• Sony DCR - TRV 103

• Good Potential Robotics Cameras
  • Canon Optura (has linux1394 support)
  • Professional GL1 this is just awesome !
  • Sony VC-C4 (bovik's lab)