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FIGURE 1.8
Various pliers, a
wrench, and Amphibionics
screwdrivers.

You will need an adjustable wrench (marked E in Figure 1.8), side
cutters (F), pliers (G), needle nose pliers (H), a Phillips screwdriv-
er (I), and a Robertson screwdriver (J) during construction of the
robots. A set of miniature screwdrivers may be useful as well. The
needle nose pliers can be used to hold wire and small compo-
nents in place while soldering, bending wire, and holding
machine screw nuts.

The wire strippers, shown in Figure 1.9 (A), are used to strip the
protective insulation off wire, without cutting the wire itself. The
device is designed to accommodate a number of wire sizes you
will need. A pair of wire cutters (C) can cut wire when fabricating
jumper wires and wiring power to the circuits. You will need
rosin-core solder (B) when soldering components to the circuit
boards, creating jumper wires, and wiring the battery connectors
and power switches. To make soldering components to the print-
ed circuit boards as easy as possible, buy the thinnest solder that
you can find. You will definitely need a chip-pulling tool (D) for
removing the PIC 16F84 chips from the 18-pin sockets. The PIC
16F84 will be inserted and removed from the sockets on the main
controller boards many times, as the software is changed and the

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