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Super Cricket
The new Super Cricket is a low-cost micro-controller ideal robotics, data collection, electronic art projects, school technology demonstrations, and lots of other applications.

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inventionDB #4142
posted by Ryan Tucker
entered December 28, 2007
manufacturer Gleason Research
website http://handyboard.com/cricket
man part # SUPERCX
approx cost $99.00

Description:  The Super Cricket adds a bunch of motor and sensor ports to the popular Handy Cricket design, while still keeping the small, hand-held size and low cost.

The Super Cricket has the following feature set:

* Microchip PICĀ® microprocessor with built-in Logo interpreter.
* 4096 bytes of user program and data memory. This memory preserves your program and data even when the Cricket is turned off and batteries are removed.
* Outputs for 4 DC motors, with two plugs and one bi-color LED on each output.
* Inputs for 6 sensors. Sensor value may be read as true/false or converted to a number from 0 to 255.
* Outputs for 8 servo motors.
* 2 bus ports, which allow the Cricket to interact a large collection of other devices.
* Built-in infrared transceiver with raw data rate of 50k baud.
* Power supply provided by four AA cells.
* Piezo beeper, program run/stop button, power LED, and program run LED.


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