Stiquito for Beginners: An Introduction to Robotics

Conrad, James M.;Mills, Jonathan W.

ISBN 10: 0818675144 / ISBN 13: 9780818675140

Published by IEEE, Los Alamitos, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Stiquito for Beginners: An Introduction to ...

Publisher: IEEE, Los Alamitos

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VG-

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Synopsis:

This second book on Stiquito presents you with a unique opportunityto learn about the field of engineering, electronics, and roboticsin an original way. This book provides you with the skills andequipment to build a very small robot, instructions on how to buildelectronic controls for your robot, and a robot kit.

The Stiquito robot is a small, inexpensive, six–legged robot thatis unique not only by its cost but because its applications arelimitless. This book is written at a level for High School andCollege students. It provides an engineering, electronics, androbotics curriculum, and presents experiments and projects thatillustrate what they teach. It also illustrates Stiquito′s uses ineducation by presenting lab exercises and describes the use ofnitinol in classroom experiments. Stiquito has already successfullybeen used to teach in primary, secondary, high school, and collegecurricula. An accompanying teacher′s manual that includes problemsolutions, descriptions for teaching each chapter, sciencebenchmarks, national standards, and additional experimentsassociated with each chapter will be available.

The Stiquito Online Supplement is on the web! This extra website,http://computer.org/books, has additional information not found inthe book.

From the Author:

The book includes a robot kit!
The book consists of three main parts: building instructions for Stiquito and other legged robots; examples of PC and microcontoller circuits to make the robot move; and examples of applications of Stiquito.

Please note that to build Stiquito you need hobby building skills (cutting fine metal wire, tying knots in the wire, crimping wire in aluminum tubing). Also note that Stiquito has been built by at least 3000 people between the ages of 10 to, well, near 99!