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 significant contributions to the Cricket design. Rick Borovoy suggested the name Cricket and contributed to early conceptual work. The Cricket team has also benefited from the work of more than a dozen MIT undergraduate students. (Last updated 2002-06-21) Is the Handy Cricket system open-source like the Handy Board? No, the Handy Cricket system is not open-source. The university at which the Cricket was developed has retained rights to the design. There are technical papers published that explain the architecture of the Cricket in fair detail (for example, an article in the IBM Systems Journal), so much of the Cricket design is public.
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 significant contributions to the Cricket design. Rick Borovoy suggested the name Cricket and contributed to early conceptual work. The Cricket team has also benefited from the work of more than a dozen MIT undergraduate students. (Last updated 2002-06-21) Is the Handy Cricket system open-source like the Handy Board? No, the Handy Cricket system is not open-source. The university at which the Cricket was developed has retained rights to the design. There are technical papers published that explain the architecture of the Cricket in fair detail (for example, an article in the IBM Systems Journal), so much of the Cricket design is public.
