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The Transparent Telepresence Research Group, my place of work and host of this website.

HiTechnic Products, a superb range of sensors, lights, remote control devices and gadgets built by John Barnes for use with Lego and Mindstorms. Do not miss this, it is excellent stuff!

 

Lego Software Power Tools, written by Kevin Clague and Miguel Agullo, a comprehensive guide to Lego CAD tools. These software tools are complex and powerful but in my opinion lack coherent documentation, and this book fulfils the need beautifully.

 

Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms, book by Mario and Giulio Ferrari. It contains a good mixture of theory and practice is thoroughly recommended.

 

The Guild of Bricksmiths, producers of rather nifty custom kits of various types for the Lego enthusiast.

The Brickish Association - a UK based club for Lego enthusiasts.

	Bricklink consists of many individual shops and is the probably the most extensive source for extra pieces.
	Baylit is another supplier, generally more expensive than Bricklink but sometimes has pieces Bricklink doesn't and everything comes from the one source.
	Dacta are an educational division of lego who supply many parts no longer available elsewhere such as the micromotor and caterpillar track links. Information on UK distributor Commotion can be found here, for other countries click here.
	Lego Shop At Home sell a variety of individual and bulk pieces as well as the usual sets; the selection is fairly limited at this time, although prices are generally cheaper than elsewhere.

	Technica by Jim Hughes, a superb registry of Technic parts with great pictures.
	Brickset is an excellent reference for Lego sets over the years, with a good keyword based search.
	Peeron contains over 1000 Lego set inventories and information on the parts themselves. You can search to find which sets contain a particular part. Extremely useful!
	Brickshelf contains scanned instructions for hundreds of lego sets; this feature is currently offline but will hopefully be back soon.

	MLCAD is the application I used to generate all the CAD models on this website,
	L3P is used to convert the MLCAD files to POVRay files,
	and POVRay is used to generate the ray traced rendered images.
	LDraw is used by MLCAD and also has a very useful resource site.
	LPub is new program by Kevin Clague, and can be used for generating excellent quality instructions.
	LSynth is another program by Kevin Clague for generating flexible parts such as pneumatic hoses.

	The Liebherr web site - an amazing resource for all types of construction related devices.
	Crane Tech, a company specialising in training and inspection of cranes and earthmoving equipment - a good informative site.
	Grove - a good site for information on mobile cranes.
	Demag - another good crane site from this long standing German manufacturer, also with good documentation and datasheets.
	New Holland, manufacturers of agricultural and construction machinery.
	Bobcat, the inventors of the skid steer loader concept.
	Excavator Videos - seller of books and videos, amongst other things, for the excavator and crane enthusiast.
	JCB construction machinery, famous in the UK for the ubiquitous Backhoe Loader.
	How Stuff Works is thoroughly recommended.
	Excavator World - excavator components in New Zealand.
	Volvo Construction Equipment, manufacturer of all kinds of construction equipment and early developer of the articulated dump truck.
	Barth Crane Inspections, a great site containing many photos, links and mishaps relating to cranes.

	Dennis Bosman's large scale Lego Trucks page. If realism is your thing, this page is a must-see.
	LEGO ergo sum - Fredrik Glockner's models are unique and clever in both mechanics and design.
	Leo's Lego, a web site containing plans and ideas for some great mechanisms and models. Essential reading for Technic fans.
	Lego On My Mind by Erik Brok. Loads of great stuff for Lego fans of all kinds, including some philosophy of Lego design.
	Tom Newsom's Technic Lego page - excellently complicated and compact designs.
	C S Soh's web site, a real source of inspiration for those seriously into pneumatics.
	Tobbe Arnesson's Technic web site, with some nice creations and great Lego set reviews.
	Freight's Lego Page - Technic construction machines and vehicles with style.
	Jan-Tore's lego trucks - large scale European style trucks, good work with some interesting models to come.
	Evert van Wichen's Lego Trucks including an excellent three axle MAN cable lift container truck.
	Beat Felber's lego site featuring large scale construction machinery and trucks. The mining shovels are particularly good.
	Briqs by Duq, a good looking web page with excellent 1:20 scale motorbikes.
	Ben Williamson's web page, includes some nice technic models, many RCX based.
	T.J.'S Lego Creations - featuring a huge crawler crane!
	Damien's Lego Site - several models including a rather nice all terrain crane with lattice boom.
	Steven Lane's website, featuring a great tank amongst other things!
	Zhengrong ZANG's RCX Controlled LEGO Train Projects, who has also found a good use for Znap!
	Philo's Home Page, with interesting robots and Lego based panoramic photo generating devices!
	El Caracho - the best named Lego site on the web; the models are excellent too.
	Eric Sophie's web site, you don't see many like this! Great robotic creatures.
	Bricks in my Pocket, a new website with lego related models, articles, reviews and news.
	Doug Carlson's web page - robotics genius!
	Lego Gonta - the buses here are brilliant! Page in Japanese but translates well.
	Andrew Lipson's Lego Page, some great models based on Escher's work.
	Kevin Clague's website, features some excellent models based on synchronous pneumatic design and downloads of his LPub and LSynth applications.
	Miguel Agullo, as well as co-authoring Lego Software Power Tools, has an excellent website here.
	Irvin Stafford has made a version of my AC50-1 All Terrain Crane with standard radio control components. Very cool!

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