Programmable Crickets, known commercially as PicoCrickets, are robotic toys in the form of programmable bricks. They are used to construct artistic projects. Crickets were developed at MIT Media Lab, and were launched commercially in Montreal in 2006. BusinessWeek, Sep 7, 2006 "Invasion of the DIY Robots" by Jessie Scanlon.
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retrieved on October 18, 2007. Playful Invention Company (PICO), co-founded by Mitchel Resnick, Brian Silverman and Paula Bonta, was formed with financial support from

Lego Group Lego A/S ( trade name: The Lego Group) is a Danish toy production company based in Billund, Denmark. It manufactures Lego-brand toys, consisting mostly of interlocking plastic bricks. The Lego Group has also built several amusement parks arou ...

, the Danish construction toy manufacturer, to commercialize the toy. , PICO also markets a toy for use with the Scratch programming language, another MIT Media Lab development.

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PicoCricket
commercial site * MIT Spectrum, Winter 199

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