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From: pplante@netcom.com (P. Plantec)
Subject: Re: FAQ for sources?
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Nick Jacobs (njacobs@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: dpe@saucer.cc.umr.edu (David Edwards) writes:


I wish I had the book handy, but the guy who wrote Robot Builder's 
Bonanza (the list of supplieres there is out dated) Gordon Mccomb, has a 
terriffic updated national list of suppliers in his new book Project 
bonanza...55 space aged projects...or something like that.  It's a great 
book with all sorts of robotic and kuel high voltage projects like a 
plasma sphere.

: >Just out of curousity, is there a FAQ-type listing of places that usually
: >have good stuff for sale, i.e. Cheap motors, MCUs, metal parts, etc.? Stuff
: >that no experimenter should be without? I'm just getting started, and am
: >just interested in getting a simple list of places that have cheap stuff
: >to play with...

: This would be tremendously useful. If you find one, let us know.
: The nearest I have seen is a list of sources in an appendix to
: Jones & Flynn's "Mobile Robots".

: Nick

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