What is the relationship between the Handy Cricket and the other Cricket projects I have heard about?
Fred Martin did a series of projects around the idea of programmable bricks when he was a student (and later, a member of the research staff) at MIT. He worked on a project by the name of Crickets there. When Fred left that university, he licensed the work that went by the name of Cricket and is launching products here by the name of Handy Cricket. (Last updated 2002-06-21) Why are they called Crickets? We wanted to emphasize our Crickets’ ability to communicate with one another, and we were inspired by the image of a field of crickets chirping with one another. (Last updated 2002-06-21) Where did the Handy Cricket come from? The Handy Cricket is based on ideas and technology developed in the Cricket project of the Lifelong Kindergarten group, headed by Mitchel Resnick, at the Media Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The core Cricket design was begun by Brian Silverman with Fred Martin in 1995. Since that time, Bakhtiar Mikhak and Robbie Berg have made significa
