Message #3226 - comp.robotics 
   Date: 09-25-92 14:18
   From: Jonathan Mills
     To: All (xpost: 1)
Subject:: Stiquito, A Small Nitinol-Propelled Robot
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@PID: Fred 1.9.h
@MSGID: 1:124/2206.0 c0572ec1
@REPLY: 1:124/2206.0 94146d06
@Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
@Message-ID: <1992Sep25.091820.22814@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <1992Sep24.113622.24133@news.cs.indiana.edu> I wrote:
>
>     Send your request for the report with payment to:
>
>         Computer Science Department
>         215 Lindley Hall
>         Indiana University
>         Bloomington, Indiana, 47405
>
>     [various options & prices deleted]

Please make checks or money orders out to "Indiana University."  It is
not a good idea to send cash, although some persons have explained
they have no other choice.  Please include payment with your request.

The university isn't set up to bill through credit cards for small
projects like this, nor can purchase orders be processed easily or
in a timely fashion.  If you want to use a purchase order, the best
way is to have your organization's purchasing department write a
check for you to send.

Don't worry about currency fluctuations, we'll send your kit if the
amount is close.  (After all, the money markets change every few
minutes, and the point is to get a robot to you as quickly as possible.)

Everything is shipped First Class in the US, and Airmail elsewhere,
so the TRs & kits should arrive reasonably quickly.  Federal Express
is possible if you pay for it, but costs as much as or more than the
robot.  I'd advise against it.  If you need a robot quickly, ftp the
TR, print page 3 (the materials list), and head on down to your local
hobby shop.

I'd like to repeat my apology for the problem about the PostScript
file.  It was (and is) huge -- over 1.2 Mb --, so I split it and
compressed it.  The files are in /pub as:

	stiquito.ps.aa.Z  (uncompress & cat to recover)
	stiquito.ps.ab.Z
	stiquito.ps.ac.Z

The PostScript files now have the Mac PS libraries prepended to
them so anyone can print them on (hopefully) any PostScript printer.
A UNIX-compressed MacBinary Word 4 version is also available for
those running Word on IBM PCs/clones:

	stiquito.w4.aa.Z  (uncompress, cat, and uudecode to recover)
	stiquito.w4.ab.Z
	stiquito.w4.ac.Z

Be sure to set ftp to binary before retrieving these files!

The stuffed & binhexed Word 4 document is still available as:

	stiquito.hqx

which is a _text_ file, not a binary.

Please send me e-mail if you have questions that aren't answered,
and I'll respond as quickly as I can.  I'm looking forward to
seeing clever and innovative designs for miniature robots.  If
there's enough interest, maybe even a nitinol-fueled Stiquito
dragster race at Mark Tilden's BEAM robot olympics.  Let's see,
how to build a nitinol-propelled robot grasshopper...

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- J. W. Mills                                           "Sic ago!"

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