Stiquito(tm) for Beginners: An Introduction to Robotics by James M. Conrad and Jonathan W. Mills Illustrations by James Martin Teacher's Guide by Jon Pedersen, College of Education, Oklahoma University Buy the book now!

This second book on Stiquito™ presents you with a unique opportunity to learn about the field of engineering, electronics, and robotics in an original way. This book provides you with the skills and equipment to build a very small robot, instructions on how to build electronic controls for your robot, and a robot kit.

The Stiquito™ robot is a small, inexpensive, six-legged robot that is unique not only by its cost but because its applications are limitless. This book is written at a level for High School and College students. It provides an engineering, electronics, and robotics curriculum, and presents experiments and projects that illustrate what they teach. It also illustrates Stiquito's uses in education by presenting lab exercises and describes the use of nitinol in classroom experiments. Stiquito has already successfully been used to teach in primary, secondary, high school, and college curricula. An accompanying teacher's manual that includes problem solutions, descriptions for teaching each chapter, science benchmarks, national standards, and additional experiments associated with each chapter will be available.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
      by James M. Conrad

Chapter 1:   An Introduction to Robots and Stiquito (10 pp)
      by James M. Conrad

Chapter 2:   Engineering Skills and the Design Process (20 pp)
      by James M. Conrad and Alan K. Baker

Chapter 3:   Electricity Basics (15 pp)
      by James M. Conrad
     (uses the Stiquito Educational Kit)

Chapter 4:   Nitinol Basics (10 pp)
      by James M. Conrad and Wayne Brown
     (uses the Stiquito Educational Kit)

Chapter 5:   Stiquito: A Small, Simple, Inexpensive Hexapod Robot (36 pp)
      by Jonathan W. Mills

Chapter 6:   A Manual Controller for the Stiquito Robot (12 pp)
      by Jonathan W. Mills

Chapter 7:   A PC Based Controller for Stiquito Robots (15 pp)
      by James M. Conrad
      (uses the Stiquito PC Parallel Port Controller)

Chapter 8:   A Simple Circuit to Make Stiquito Walk on Its Own (15 pp)
      by James M. Conrad
      (uses the Stiquito Analog Controller)

Chapter 9:   Uses of Stiquito and the Future of Small Walking Robots (10 pp)
      by Jonathan W. Mills and James M. Conrad
      (use more nitinol for other projects, or make Stiquito II)

Appendix A:   Biographies of Authors (4 pp)

Appendix B:   Suppliers (4 pp)

Appendix C:   Using Screws Instead of Crimps in Stiquito (1 pp)
(uses brass screws available from stiquito.com)

Index (4 pp)

192 pages. 7" x 10" Softcover. 1999. ISBN 0-8186-7514-4.

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