Programmable Cricket

Programmable Crickets, known commercially as PicoCrickets, are robotic toys in the form of programmable bricks. They are used to construct artistic projects.
Crickets were developed at MIT [Media Lab], and were launched commercially in Montreal in 2006.
Playful Invention Company, co-founded by Mitchel Resnick, Brian Silverman and Paula Bonta, was formed with financial support from Lego Group, the Danish construction toy manufacturer, to commercialize the toy.
, PICO also markets a toy for use with the Scratch programming language, another MIT Media Lab development.