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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.