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Crickets are based on more than a decade of NSF-funded educational research. Lifelong Kindergarten researchers collaborated with the LEGO company to create the first "programmable bricks," squeezing computational power into LEGO bricks. This research led to the [[LEGO Mindstorms]] robotics kits, now used by millions of people around the world. While LEGO MindStorms is designed especially for making robots, Crickets are designed especially for making artistic creations. Crickets were refined in collaboration with the Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) museum network, and are now sold as a product through the Playful Invention Company (PICO). | Crickets are based on more than a decade of NSF-funded educational research. Lifelong Kindergarten researchers collaborated with the LEGO company to create the first "programmable bricks," squeezing computational power into LEGO bricks. This research led to the [[LEGO Mindstorms]] robotics kits, now used by millions of people around the world. While LEGO MindStorms is designed especially for making robots, Crickets are designed especially for making artistic creations. Crickets were refined in collaboration with the Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) museum network, and are now sold as a product through the Playful Invention Company (PICO). | ||
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Revision as of 12:25, 9 July 2009
Introduction
Links
Crickets project (Lifelong Kindergarden, MediaLab, MIT)
Bibliography
Rusk, N., Resnick, M., Berg, R., & Pezalla-Granlund, M. (2008). Journal of Science Education and Technology, PDF Reprint
Young, Jeffrey R. (1997). MIT Scholar Brings Legos Into the Digital Age, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 14, 1997. HTML
More articles are available from the Crickets project page.