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Useful links

Miscellaneous references

• SmartDraw
• Gantt Chart Creation Tool
• Purchase Order Request Form (TAMU/CS)
• Tips on giving talks
  • Dazzle 'em with Style
  • A guide for Undergraduates
  • Tips by Frank Kschischang
  • Some rules for making a presentation
  • How to Give a Bad Talk, by David A. Patterson
  • 101 tips for effective presentations
• IC op-amp cookbook, by Walter Jung (excellent ref. for conditioning small sensor signals)

Unmanned aerial vehicles

• Netbot Lab at TAMU

Robot platforms (vendors)

• Acroname and Palm Pilot Robot Kit
• AmigoBot (ActivMedia)
• Boebot (Parallax)
• Charmed Labs
• ER1 (Evolution Robotics)
• Kephera (K-Team)
• Lynxmotion
• Mark III
• Mindstorm (Lego)
• Aibo (Sony)
• OOPic

• Introduction to pyroelectric motion detectors
• Integrated PIR/Lens
• Motion detector interface
• PIR from Acroname
• Thermopile Detector with integrated Lensr (Perkin-Elmer)
• Introduction to Fresnel Lens

Sensor networks

• Networked robotics (Prof. Dez Song's class)
• Motes (Crossbow)
• TinyOS
• MIT project Oxygen
• Deborah Estrin at UCLA
• Survey on sensor networks (UCI)
• Introduction to 1-Wire(R) bus

RFID products

• Texas Instruments
• RFID Exchange
• Alien Technology
• Precision Dynamics Corporation
• RFID USA
• iAutomate

Physiological/wearable sensors

• Control of a Robotic Arm using SEMG signals (Rajesh Rao)
• Affective Computing group (MIT Media Lab)
• ProComp sensors
• Building a Galvanic Skin Response Sensor
• Build your own optical heart-rate sensor
• Wireless EEG/GSR cap
• sEMG sensor starter kit