Stiquito Controlled - Educational Information for Instructors and Student

General Educational Material

• View a movie of a walking Stiquito Controlled Robot:  Movie 1 (11 meg), Movie 2 (9 meg), Movie 3 (18 meg)
• Go to the Texas Instruments MSP430 website to learn about this microcontroller.
•   Dr. Conrad was interviewed for the "Mecklenburg Neighbors" section of the Charlotte Observer, and the story and a HUGE picture appeared in the September 29, 2004 issue.  The topic was Stiquito.  Click here to read the story.
• See the information from the 2001 ECE292B class, Intro to Stiquito and Microprocessors.  This was the birthplace of Stiquito Controlled.  It also has a 40 second spot that showed up on local TV.

Software for Compiling Different Gaits

• Download the Texas Instruments MSP430 code used in the Stiquito Robot, and view the readme.txt file
• Go to the Texas Instruments website to download free development tools (IAR Kickstart).
• Here is a new version of the code that has been tested but not released.

Hardware - The Board

• View the schematic of the final Stiquito Controlled printed circuit board.
• View the layout of the final Stiquito Controlled printed circuit board.
• A prototype was developed using ExpressPCB:
  • Visit the ExpressPCB Website
  • Here are the single board files (schematic, layout, PDF of layout)
  • Here is the three-board layout
• To learn more about the TI MSP430 microcontroller used on the Stiquito Controller Board, read the TI MSP430 Selector Guide

Manufacturing - The Process

Manufacturing is one of the final steps of the design and delivery of a consumer product. Here are some manufacturing examples for educational use which have the Stiquito microcontroller board as the subject:

• The Stiquito PCB was manufactured and tested by M&M Technology, 7711 Idlewild Road, Indian Train, NC  28079, 704-882-9432.
• View a movie of a pick-and-place machine as it builds the Stiquito Controller Board:
    Movie 1 (9.4 meg), Movie 2 (7.4 meg)

• 	Here are two detailed photos of the pick-and-place manufacturing process.
  	This photo is of the board test (Brian is testing the potentiometer here) and hand soldering-packing.	Click on the photo for high resolution.