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Programmable Bricks: Toys to think with by Mitchel Resnick, Fred Martin, Randy Sargent, and Brian Silverman. Available as a Adobe Acrobat PDF file (200 KB).
Getting Started With Handy Boards and Handy Logo. Available as a Adobe Acrobat PDF file (78 KB)
The Art of LEGO Design. A seminal article by Fred Martin, originally published in The Robotics Practitioner that presents a variety of tips, tricks, and ``design clichés'' for building with the LEGO Technic system. Available as a Adobe Acrobat PDF file (974 KB).
Beyond Black Boxes Proposal - Construction kits that let kids build their own scientific instruments. In an NSF-funded project called Beyond Black Boxes, children are using Crickets to design their own instruments for scientific investigations.