Thank you for your participation and generous offer of putting together assembly instructions for the hobbyists! sharing your schematics, parts list and relevant information, as well as being happy to help out by answering questions in the spirit of open source research is to me very noble. I'm happy and honored to have the chance to communicate with you!

On that note, I would very much like what you have offered! I am excited to have the chance to learn and work with the technology! I would like to help out any way I can during the process. I can compile places where I bought the items, their pricing, as well as detailing my assembly experiences with pictures, video and commentary.

Again, thank you very much for your time and effort.
Leonard J. Hockett

Thanks, LionsLeader! You said it in a nutshell: "localization... empowers all of the rest". The main components made at UW are the XSRF boards (3 per robot) and the aluminum cones (3 per robot). The XSRF boards can be made by PCB Express - all you would need is our schematic. The aluminum cones are the only real speciality item - made at the UW Engineering machine shop. There is a good chance that they would make them for anyone, for a quite reasonable charge. Or, a hobbyist could make a mold for a cone of about the right shape, and pour liquid plastic into it - that might work ok. They could even be made of wood, using a wood lathe. Our project is "open source" for research purposes. We'll assemble a parts list and post it if you are interested! Thanks for your interest.

Great Job guys, ive posted the links for this in Society of Robots forums. i am new to robotics, but have researched enough to know that localization is what i am most interested in. since it empowers all the rest of the sensors on a robot. i know you made some of your parts there at the college. are there parts that could be purchased that would allow the same functionality?