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Super Cricket
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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
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| 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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