Suppliers

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Contents 1 General 2 Drive Train 3 Electronics 4 Pneumatics 5 Software

General

• McMaster Carr - probably the widest selection of FIRST related stuff. Raw materials, power transmission, tools, etc.
• Home Depot - Largest hardware store chain. Power handtools, hardware, and all sorts of potentially useful brackets, poles, etc.
• Small Parts - large selection, smaller than McMaster, but focused on smaller and more precision engineering.
• MSC Industrial Supply Co. - Like McMaster, only cheaper
• Grainger - somewhere between Home Depot and McMaster in terms of how technical items can be.

Drive Train

• SDP/SI - very wide selection
• Kornylak corporation selection of omniwheels.
• Boston Gear
• Martin Sprocket & Gear
• AndyMark - FIRST-specific gearboxes and omniwheels
• Pic Design- for those hard to find 0.7M metric gears to mesh with the drill motor pinion. Very slow delivery, try ordering before the season.
• Skyway Wheels - supplier of wheels for KOP.
• Azusa Engineering - large aluminum plate sprockets. Do not deal directly, but you can have sprockets ship direct from them through a distributor.
• Capitol USA Minimoto - #25 Aluminum sprockets.
• Rush Gears inc

Electronics

• Digi-Key - extremely large selection of electronics including ICs, sensors, prototyping equipment, etc.
• Innovation FIRST - suppliers of all the custom FIRST electronics like the Robot Controller and the Victors
• Newark in one
• Connector Concepts, Inc. - supplier of the breakers and fuse panels for KOP.
• Tyco Electronics - supplier of connectors.
• Banner - supplier of sensors.
• Terminal Supply Co. - electrical terminal supplier.

Pneumatics

• SMC Corporation of America
• Festo Pnuematics
• Clippard - supplier of electrical and pnuematic devices.
• Parker - supplier of some of the pnuematics used in the KOP.
• Norgren - supplier of some of the pnuematics used in the KOP.

Software

• Autodesk - CAD software included with KOP.
• Solidworks - popular CAD program.
• CoreChartFR - Flowchart Graphical Assembler Programming. Drag and drop flowchart interface and drop menu selections.