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.
