General Design Information

References on Vehicle Stability Control
Robotics Notes for EECS40
Equipment Notes
Design Notes
Paper Ruler! (pdf)

Solidworks

Basic Solid Works model for car
Quan's Solid Works model for 2 wheel-drive car
Quan's Solid Works model for 4 wheel-drive car

ExpressPCB

Express PCB
PCB Design Tips
Layout Guidelines for Switching Power Supplies
Other PCB layout references

Soldering

Soldering I (ps)
Soldering II (pdf)
De-soldering & bad soldering

Control Notes

Control Overview (pdf) (ps)
Bicycle Steering Analysis(pdf) (ps)

Matlab Simulation

Matlab code for bicycle model
Matlab code for integrating steering
Simulink for speed control (zip)
Simulink for speed control w/ PWM (zip)
distance.m - Matlab function for distance

Tips

Presentation (2004 Winner)
Post-competition Thought(2004 Winner)

Chip Makers / Distributors

National Semiconductor (Analog circuits like amplifiers.)
Fairchild Semiconductor (Digital and discrete circuits like MOSFETs and logic.)
Maxim (Specialty and analog circuits like analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, analog multiplexors, and amplifiers. Don't forget to request your free samples. :)
Digi-Key (Distributor.)
ON Semiconductor