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Global supplier of mechanical testing systems and position sensors for a wide variety of markets and applications. A pioneer in precision force and motion control. World's leading supplier of magnetostrictive-based sensor products.

MTS Sensors and Systems

Products include Linear-Position Sensors, Liquid-Level Transmitters, Mobile Equipment Sensors, Light Industrial/Commercial Sensors and more.

Small electronics modules and simple mechanical components for for robot and motion control. Web Store provides parts like small gearboxes, breadboards, servos, and robot kits too.

Pololu - Electronic Modules for Robotics

The Orangutan SVP robot controller is a complete control solution for small and medium-sized robots running at 6 - 13.5 V. The module is designed around the powerful Atmel ATmega324PA AVR microcontroller (32 KB flash, 2 KB RAM, and 1 KB EEPROM) or ATmega1284P (128 KB flash, 16 KB RAM, and 4 KB EEPROM) running at 20 MHz .

Orangutan SVP-1284 Robot Controller

The Orangutan SVP is also available as an SVP-324 partial kit or SVP-1284 partial kit that has all of the surface-mount parts pre-soldered and a variety of through-hole parts included separately.

Mechanical Components include Motors, Gearboxes, RC Servos, Wheels, Tracks, Ball Casters etc.

Michael Munroe's page for backplane and signal integrity topics, info and favorite links.

CopperAlliance.net - Backplane and Signal Integrity

• Cooling Systems - A Tutorial, April 1994
• Power Management: It's in the System, RTC Magazine, December 2005
• 3U VPX: Small, Rugged and REDI, RTC Magazine, September 2007
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Electronic component assembly, Printed circuit board manufacturer. Conventional and surface mount Assembly. Cabling and wiring Service for Panels and Cubicles.

Quartz TSL - PCB Manufacture & Assembly

Single Sided, Double Sided PTH, Multilayer PCB's upto 16+ layers.

Electronic Design services from Quartz TSL

Schematic, Gerber data, Design concept to manufacture.

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Direct writing by laser printing to produce PCB's

"Quartz tsl are currently working with De Mont Fort University and 2 other industrial partners. On a Research project aiming to develop new manufacturing processes."

Minnitron Ltd is a family run Printed Circuit manufacturer now established for over 40 years.

Minnitron Ltd Printed Circuit Manufacture

"From literally the "Garden shed" in 1962 the founder George Goodfellow was the catalyst for a long future in the manufacture of Printed Circuit Boards. Board types manufactured today include single, double and Plated Through hole, plus multilayer boards up to 10 layers."

Current Carrying Capacity Calculator

"All conductors which carry current will be at a temperature higher than air temperature by a temperature rise (above air temperature) T which depends upon current carried (I) Amperes , conductor width (W) and copper thickness."

Minnitron Ltd. 20 Leigh Road. Haine Industrial Park. Ramsgate. Kent. CT12 5EU.

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Authorized distributor for the electronics' industry since 1972. Providing automatic screw machine parts in both standard and metric such as standoffs,spacers, in steel, aluminum, brass,stainless steel,nylon, phenolic, Teflon, Torlon and Ultem.

Electronic Hardware Ltd - Mechanical Parts

Automatic screw machine shop can handle orders from .016 up to 2-3/8" in standard and metric measure.

Austin Circuit Design - PCB and Fabrication

Austin Circuit Design provides printed circuit board design, fabrication, and assembly services.

"Circuit Design Consultants, Austin Circuit Design's predecessor, was originally founded in 1985 by Greg Ochoa to fill an immediate need for quick-turn design, fabrication and assembly of prototype printed circuit boards."

"Our design tools include PADS POWER PCB, Protel, Cadence-Allegro, and Orcad Layout, supplemented by CCT Specctra Router. For schematic capture, we use PadsLogic, Viewlogic and Orcad."

Micro-technology products and sevices. MEMS based ultra compact mass flow meters and controllers, modules and systems. MEMS based broadband infrared (IR) sources. Diode-based laser gas detection (LGD) OEM modules. Micro Optics and MEMS Services.

MEMS Products from Axetris Leister

What is MEMS Technology?

"Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) is the integration of mechanical elements, sensors, actuators, and electronics on a common silicon substrate through microfabrication technology..... MEMS and Nanotechnology Exchange

Mass Interconnect Solutions for Automatic Test Equipment.

VPC - Interface Connector products

"Mass InterConnect systems act as the connector interface between test instruments and devices/units under test (D/UUT) in test applications."

SL4 - Virginia Panel Corporation

• Offers up to 960 signal points in one receiver
• Tested to over 20,000 mating cycles
• Operational in temperatures from -50°C to 105°C
• Effective testing performance for a variety of applications

The basic setup you'll need to build a plastic extruding CupCake CNC machine. from Bre Pettis

Makerbot is an open source robot that helps people make robots that make things.

Makerbot - 3D Mechanical Prototype Synthesis

Twitter Interface - @makerbot