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Where’s the bricks?

Where’s the bricks?. Unlike Lego, Crickets do NOT come with building materials! Now What?. 3 Stages of Cricket Materials. 1. Stick-Bots 2. Sticky-Bots 3. Sticky & Junky-Bots. Stage 1, Stick-Bots. Free & cheap "Non-Consumable Consumables" Originally, like Lego, Re-Usable Kits

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Where’s the bricks?

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  1. Where’s the bricks? Unlike Lego, Crickets do NOT come with building materials! Now What?

  2. 3 Stages of Cricket Materials 1. Stick-Bots 2. Sticky-Bots 3. Sticky & Junky-Bots

  3. Stage 1, Stick-Bots • Free & cheap "Non-Consumable Consumables" • Originally, like Lego, Re-Usable Kits (Non-Consumables) • Found a Blanket was First Good Ingredient...

  4. Experimented with building with many types of materials..

  5. Noticed kept coming across hobby sticks over and over...

  6. Two Versions, Brown & White and ...

  7. … multi-colored, which eventually became clear was best. So one of the main ingredients is colored craft sticks!

  8. Stick Stick-Bots Together with… Multi-Color Tape (Staples etc.) Multi-Color/Size Clamps (Staples etc.) Multi-Color Paper Clips (Staples etc.) Color Rubber Bands (Staples etc.)

  9. Hardest to Find, Mechanisms… Pick up Sticks (Toys R Us) Spacers (Hardware Store) Multi-Color/Size/Shape Beads & Blocks (Toy Stores etc.) Gears (Lego &/or Kelvin Catalog)

  10. First challenge was to simply to develop stable structures... Started simple with pure mechanical structures. No electronics or computation …

  11. Eventually… Worked up to the standard Bugs & Cars (Only pulley rather than gears)

  12. Challenge #1 Build-A-Bug! PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IS A NON-CONSUMABLES MODEL! to bug waituntil [switcha] a, onfor 5 beep wait 2 rd a, onfor 5 beep wait 2 beep waituntil [sensorb >100] a, onfor 5 beep wait 2 rd a, onfor 5 beep wait 2 beep end

  13. Challenge #2 Participate! Contribute! Be Creative! 

  14. Extra Challenge, Build-A-Car! (Cricket Manual)

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