Handy Cricket

I worked with David, Katur and Prajakta on the Handy Cricket. When we first found the cricket, there was already a photosensor, a pressure sensor, a light and a motor attached to it, so we tried to play with all those components. While reading the manual, we also found out we could play music notes on the microprocessor itself, and found that really fun, so we tried that out also.

We found that programming in Logo is really easy to do. The sensors' values range from 0 to 255. We had a little difficulty figuring out what the different values meant. In the end, we found that 255 is the value at rest, and 0 is the value when the most amount of pressure is applied.

However, we never got the outputs to work, even if we followed letter for letter the example in the manual. Maybe it's because you need to write directly in the memory. We didn't have time to experiment on this.

There is very little resource on the web on the Handy Cricket (very very limited resource). The best programming manual is this one:
http://handyboard.com/cricket/program/