Shops

General info

• You can purchase things directly if you spend less than 100€ including taxes (obviously with authorization of your tutor). Give the receipt or invoice to your tutor to obtain refund!
• If you need to spend more you need to refer to your tutor to start a different procedure ("Buono d'Ordine").

Robot bases and components

• Robot Domestici Italian site. Some good prices, some very high.
• Robot Italy Italian site. A lot of stuff.
• Robostore Italian site. A lot of stuff. Well organized.
• Emmeshop Italian site. A lot of stuff.
• Robotshop Really a lot of stuff. Check to be on the EU site
• Hobby King A lot of stuff, mostly model-oriented. Check to be on the EU Warehouse.
• kitronik Kits and unusual stuff.
• Dagu Kits, wheels; Chinese.
• Jonathan Italian site. Model oriented.
• WowWee Get inspired! Cheap and complex robobases.
• Maxon The best (and most expensive) motors

Electronics devices

• RS - You can shop on-line or buy direct from the RS shop located in via W. Tobagi, 19 - Vimodrone (near the "Cascina Burrona" stop of MM2). Important! If you buy directly at the RS shop, you absolutely must request that the name on the invoice ("fattura") is: Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione - via Ponzio 34/5 - 20133 Milano and that the invoice is marked as paid (RS uses a strange paper-piercing tool to do the mark). If you ask for these two things, you get a 10% discount; if you don't, you don't get the discount and, above all, you cannot obtain a refund from your tutor!
• Farnell - You can shop on-line with discounts.
• Franchi di Scarpa - Via Padova, 74 - Milano.
• Watterott Online shop in Germany (no additional taxes): drivers, microcontrollers, cards, ...
• Hobbytronics Online shop in UK: components, wires, ...
• Digilent Boards, sensors. Home of PMod.
• Sintolvox - Via Privata Asti, 12 (close to Piazza Piemonte) - Milano.
• Futura Elettronica - via Adige 11, 21013 Gallarate (Va)
• LeD elettronica snc - Milano via Bessarione 14 (Corvetto) - 02-5392845
• Microchip - OnLine shops for PIC and other stuffs. For sample request try to sent an e-mail to franca.borella<at>microchip.com. Italian sales office is located in Legnano, Via P. Picasso 41. Reception Phone: 0331-742611; Franca Borella: 0331-742621.
• Burklin: vendor of cables and other stuff
• Futurlec: all electronics, chinese vendor, quite fast delivery (for a chinese vendor: 1-2 weeks).

PCB printing services

• ITead Studio - Cheap and good quality chinese supplier - 1 week production time plus shipping (from 5 days with DHL to 3-4 weeks with standard mailing)
• Seeed Studio - Cheap and good quality chinese supplier - Almost the same as ITead Studio but with some different panelizing options

Machine shop and mechanical parts

• Meccanica di precisione srl di Moretti Piero, via Tartini Giuseppe 6 (map), 02-3761826. Use line 82 from Bovisa or MM3 Maciachini.
• Ferramenta Pietro Viganò, via Montevideo 8, Milano. Near the "S. Agostino" stop of MM2.
• LIP Lavorazione Ingranaggi di Precisione, Via C. Colombo 11, 20094 Corsico (MI),Tel: 02 48600779 - 02 4502929 - 02 48601251 Fax: 02 48601215 info@lipmilano.it - Gears.
• CTMeca: an Italian vendor of mechanical parts.
• Item: modular aluminium mechanical components. Some of these are already available in the lab.
• Milan Model: Via Imbonati, 78 Milan (MM Dergano) - Big model shop, selling all needed for models from servos, to batteries, gears, ball bearing, ...
• Ball bearing, no name shop. Via Catalani, second shop on the right, grey. Any ball bearing.

Plastics, rubbers and the like

• FICED: plastic material
• Plasting: Plastic - Via Alpini, 9 - Segrate (Milan)
• Moroni Gomma: Rubber, gum - Via Giusti, 20 - Milan
• BCM: Lattice -Via Vincednzo Monti, 56 - Milan
• SAET: Acrilic, plexiglas, plastic - Via Candiani, 9 - Milan
• Flockcart: Resin, plastic, silicon, ... - Via Valparaiso 11 - Milan

Metal

• Miorini: metal - Viale Ortles, 21 - Milan
• Omar aluminio : aluminum bars Pero MM
• La milano alluminio: aluminum Via Gallarate 355 Milano
• Io e Il legno - Largo Murani - Milan - Brico center close to Politecnico (south end of via Golgi)

Wood

• Baldo Legnami: Wood- Via Val d'Intelvi, 24 - Milan
• Io e Il legno - Largo Murani - Milan - Bricolage center close to Politecnico (south end of via Golgi)

Printing

• For posters and such things, one place is Virus (via Corti 30, near the DEI).

Miscellaneous online resources

• Traceparts: a repository of 2D and 3D CAD models (requires user registration).