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2 | SDP-SI | https://sdp-si.com/ | They are a great source for spur gear stock (which is way cheaper than buying indivual gears), small bearings, including flanged bearings, chain, sprockets, and lots of other miscellaneous small stuff. |
3 | MSC Industrial Supply Co. | http://www1.mscdirect.com/cgi/nnsrhm | |
4 | McMaster-Carr | http://www.mcmaster.com/ | probably the widest selection of FIRST related stuff. Raw materials, power transmission, tools, etc. |
5 | Grainger | http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/start.shtml | |
6 | Small Parts, Inc. | http://www.smallparts.com/ | large selection, smaller than McMaster, but focused on smaller and more precision engineering. |
7 | SMC Corporation of America | http://www.smcusa.com/default.asp | |
8 | Festo Pnuematics | http://www.festo.com/INetDomino/coor...s/en/index.htm | |
9 | Martin Sprocket & Gear | http://www.martinsprocket.com/ | Power Transmition |
10 | Boston Gear | http://www.bostongear.com | Power Transmition |
11 | Digi-Key | http://www.digikey.com | Electronics |
12 | Innovation First | http://www.innovationfirst.com | Electronics |
13 | Newark in one | https://www.newark.com/ | Electronics |
14 | AndyMark | http://www.andymark.com/ | for power transmission and drivetrain products. |
15 | Pic Design | http://www.pic-design.com/ | for those hard to find 0.7M metric gears to mesh with the drill motor pinion |
16 | Connector Concepts, Inc. | http://www.connectorconcepts.com/ | supplier of the breakers and fuse panels for KOP |
17 | Tyco Electronics | http://www.tycoelectronics.com/ | supplier of connectors |
18 | Skyway Wheels | http://www.skywaywheels.com/ | supplier of wheels for KOP |
19 | Banner | http://www.bannerengineering.com/ | supplier of sensors |
20 | Terminal Supply Co. | http://www.terminalsupplyco.com/ | electrical terminal supplier |
21 | Clippard | http://www.clippard.com/ | supplier of electrical and pnuematic devices |
22 | Parker | http://www.parker.com/ | supplier of some of the pnuematics used in the KOP |
23 | Norgren | http://www.norgren.com/ | supplier of some of the pnuematics used in the KOP |
24 | Autodesk | http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...41&wac=IL18067 | CAD software included with KOP (also free software for any school/student) |
25 | Solidworks | http://www.solidworks.com/ | popular CAD program |
26 | Mouser Electronics | http://www.mouser.com | Various electronics |
27 | W.M. Berg | http://www.wmberg.com | Various gears, sprockets, bearings, etc. |
28 | GlobalSpec (Registration Required) | http://www.globalspec.com | Not a supplier, but a huge database of suppliers. Register and you can enter specs for a part and see who has something that fits. Warning: If you click on links to parts you've found, you'll be getting catalogs in the mail. |
29 | Grob Inc. | http://www.grobinc.com/ | Hard to find pulleys and pinion wire as well as custom broaching. |
30 | AP Circuits | http://www.apcircuits.com/ | For custom printed circuit boards. |
31 | CadSoft Online | http://www.cadsoftusa.com/ | Home of the Eagle Layout Editor, for designing the printed circuit boards. |
32 | Metalworking Web Sites Index | http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/Metal/MetalSites.html | Several dozen metalworking-related suppliers are listed |
33 | MSC subsidiary ENCO | http://www.use-enco.com | Tools |
34 | The Robot Market Place | http://www.robotmarketplace.com/ | I'm not sure if this is what you guys were referring to, but heres a site with quite a few products for general robotics as well as repair services for some of the things that you may have accidentally fried. |
35 | Allen Designs LLC | http://www.shan-precision.com/ | Digital Calipers, Micrometers, Dial Indicators |
36 | Boca Bearing | www.bocabearings.com | has lots of hard to find sizes of ball bearings. A bit pricey though. |
37 | All electronics | http://www.allelectronics.com/ | absolutely great for anything electrical and lots of things that aren't. they have things not even they know what they are (I'm not joking either) |
38 | Direction | http://directron.com/switches2.html | nice for various neat switches |
39 | Super Driods Robots | http://www.superdroidrobots.com | good for general robotics rating |
40 | Super Circuits | www.supercircuits.com | if you ever want to mount a camera on your robot and i recommend it go hear latterly the worlds best supplier. |
41 | Capitol Metals | http://www.imsmetals.com/ | Metal supply company. All of our Aluminum comes from there. |
42 | Port Plastics | http://www.portplastics.com/index2.html | Plastics supply company. All of our polycarb and Delrin comes from there. |
43 | Copper State Nut & Bolt | http://www.copperstate.com/ | Nut and bolt supply company. We get all kinds of screws, nails, nuts, and bolts from there. |
44 | Usplastic | http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/category.asp?catalog_name=USPlastic&category_name=62&Page=1&utm_id=1&utm_term=plastic+sheet&cookie_test=1 | good plastic supplier its like the only place you can get square plastic rods. |
45 | pacific bearing | www.pacificbearingsales.com | wierd bearings for cheap |
46 | BG micro electonics | www.bgmicro.com | Surplus electronics and a few mechanical tidbits |
47 | Online Metals | www.onlinemetals.com | One of many online metals companies that will cut and sell small hunks of material. (Check out the FAQ and RAQ) (That's frequently asked questions and RARELY asked questions.) |
48 | Bolt Depot | BoltDepot.com | Good source of hardware like nuts, bolts, washers and screws - cheap. |
49 | Jameco | http://www.jameco.com/ | Good source of connector bodies for your own PWM cables, for example Part Nos 157382CK, and 100765CK for female sockets, 145357CK for male pins. They also sell a LOT of other electronics! |
50 | Built for fun EV's | http://buggies.builtforfun.co.uk/Links/index.html | This may be of interest - directory of materials and components suppliers for builders - mainly mechanical with some electrical stuff but all online and most deal with small orders. Separate lists for US and UK based builders. |
51 | Jacks small engines | http://www.jackssmallengines.com/gok...msprkt_35f.cfm | Heat treated ALUMINUM #35 sprockets in any number of teeth from 19 to 94 priced competitively with IFI and AndyMark sprockets but with more choices in tooth counts. Drill your own hole pattern. |
52 | Igus | http://www.igus.com/ | slide system components |
53 | Kerk | http://www.kerkmotion.com/ | leadscrew & nut setup kit #KR210; part # listed BZ6050 |
54 | Banebots | http://banebots.com/osc/index.php | source for gearboxes for the Fischer Price motors |
55 | Brecoflex | http://www.brecoflex.com | great source for transmission belts (i.e. tank treads) |
56 | Mulco | http://www.mulco.net/eng/index.html | European company that is similar to Brecoflex. There's a great program here called Belt-Pilot available free online...calculation options will help you determine pulley diameters, the number of teeth, belt lengths, etc. |
57 | Motion Industries | www.motionindustries.com | By the way this is a great idea even for older teams. |
58 | Berg | http://www.wmberg.com/ | This gear supplier site looks interesting, especially the section on "breadboarding". There are several components that might be very useful in fabricating a "widget" for some mechanism, especially for those of you without machining resources. |
59 | surplus center | http://www.surpluscenter.com/ | Our team had to work on a lower budget this year so we ended up looking around a lot and fabricating parts so we ended up finding surplus center and they turned out to have a lot of parts and great deals too. |
60 | Hansen Hobbies | www.hansenhobbies.com | The best price I've found for PWM connectors and wire as well as quality tools. |
61 | power werx | www.powerwerx.com | Source of Anderson Power Pole connectors, much cheaper than McMaster. Once you use Anderson Power Pole connectors, you will never want to use anything else. |
62 | amazon supply | http://www.amazonsupply.com/ | Free 2 day shipping for orders over $50, or free 2 day shipping for Prime account holders, regardless of price. College students can get free Prime account. |
63 | B&B Manufacturing | http://www.bbman.com | All things pulley and belt related, bushings, gears, chain sprockets. Fantastic online catalog. |
64 | Stafast | http://shop.stafast.com | Stumbled upon this supplier for various fasteners. Seems to have cheaper prices than boltdepot, on the whole: |
65 | FMW Fasteners | http://www.fmwfasteners.com/ | I recently stumbled upon FMW Fasteners. They sell a lot of specialty stuff and sizes McMaster doesn't. |
66 | Aircraft Spruce | http://www.aircraftspruce.com/menus/me/index.html | thin wall tubing and some plastics/composites: |
67 | metal mart usa | http://www.metalmartusa.com/ | Michigan area metal |
68 | AIN plastics | http://www.tkmna.com/tkmna/TKMNADivisions/AINPlastics/index.html | Michigan area plastic AIN plastics for polycarbonate |
69 | total plastic | http://www.totalplastics.com/ | Michigan area another plastic I have used them a lot of Polycarbonate and poly core board |
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