Includes one Stiquito robot kit.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface. 1. An Introduction to Robotics and Stiquito (James M. Conrad). 2. Engineering Skills and the Design Process (James M. Conrad Allan R. Baker). 3. Electricity Basics (James M. Conrad). 4. Nitinol Basics (James M. Conrad Wayne Brown). 5. Stiquito: A Small, Simple, Inexpensive Hexapod Robot (Jonathan W. Mills). 6. A Manual Controller for the Stiquito Robot (Jonathan W. Mills). 7. A PC-Based Controller for the Stiquito Robot (James M. Conrad). 8. A Simple Circuit to Make Stiquito Walk on Its Own (James M. Conrad). 9. The Future of Stiquito and Walking Robots (Jonathan W. Mills and James M. Conrad). Appendix A: Author Biographies. Appendix B: Sources of Materials for Stiquito. Appendix C: Using Screws Instead of Crimps in Stiquito. Index.

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