Author: Administrator

CREATE A GREETING CARD

Georgia Institute of Technology

1—DECORATE YOUR CARD

2—Program It

3—Plug it in

Decorate the front and inside of your card. Use your imagination.
Place the light sensor inside of the card.

Program the card to play a tune when the card is opened.

♫ Plays a tune!!!♫

Plug a light sensor into the PicoCricket. Also plug in the sound box to play the tune. Download the program to the PicoCricket and try it out.

The light sensor detects the amount of light (brightness). If the brightness is greater than 70 then the card has probably been opened.

5—Make your tune

Create a tune by clicking on the spaces next to the piano keys.

7—Choose your settings

You can choose the instrument, the volume, and tempo (how fast or slow the tune goes) by sliding the yellow bar to the left or right.

4—Create your own music

Click on the sound tab

Click on the Melodies button at the bottom and the following screen should appear.

6—Name your block

You can rename your block by clicking on it. The name “melody1” should disappear and you can type in what you want to call it.

At the top of the screen click on Create and a new blank slate should appear.
Notice to the left that your own music block has been created.
Notice to the left that your own music block has been created.

8—Add your music block to the program

Once you are through creating your tune, click on the OK button on right side of the bottom of the screen.
This takes us back to the original screen where our program is located. And now our own melody block has been added! (Look at the left hand side of your screen)
Now we can pull off the “clem” melody block off of our program and place our own.