where’s the bricks? unlike lego, crickets do not come with building materials! now what?

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

(Non-Consumables)

• Found a Blanket was First Good Ingredient...

Experimented with building with many types of materials..

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

Two Versions, Brown & White and ...

… multi-colored, which eventually became clear was best.

So one of the main ingredients is colored craft sticks!

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.)

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)

Started simple with pure mechanical structures.No electronics or computation …

First challenge was to simply to develop stable structures...

Eventually…

Worked up to the standard Bugs & Cars

(Only pulley rather than gears)

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Challenge #1 Build-A-Bug!

PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IS

A NON-CONSUMABLES

MODEL!

Challenge #2

Participate! Contribute! Be Creative!

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