Pico+Cricket+Exploration

What is Pico Cricket? Hands-on explorations of the material and software. Brainstorm integration ideas.

We learned to assemble a little Pico Cricket robot. Karen and Katherine programmed our motor to rotate, with the rotation speed in proportion to the volume of the sound it heard… The programming interface is called Pico Blocks, and it looks a lot like scratch. Our program: Pat and Lan built a music mobile. Bells made sounds when the mobile rotated in different directions. Some ideas for classroom use include kinetic sculpture, jewelry, toys, inventions. interactive dioramas Talk about gender issues and how PICO cricket can appeal to the girls and the Arts ( Shop, music and art lovers) Sharon discovered that besides using icons to assemble a program you can also use the text similar to Logo programming. Lots of ideas found in the sites below http://picocricket.com/ideas.html http://www.pienetwork.org/ideas/