Makey Makey. An Invention Kit for Everyone !
Makey Makey turns everyday objects into touch pads. The way it works is that you Alligator Clip two objects to the Makey keyboard. With you and, for example that's something conductive, a banana, can make a connection. When you touch the banana, you make a connection, and the Makey Makey sends the computer a keyboard message, which the computer thinks is a regular keyboard. Because of that, it works with all computer programs and webpages.
PacmanA very simple project that we decided to start with is a pacman game.We chose to use aluminum foil to control the game instead of the arrow keys on a keyboard. We connected an alligator clip to each direction and then connected it to the Makey Makey. For these projects to work you also need to connect someone to the “ground”, which works best if there's a person to connected to that end. So, we connected the other end to my finger and I played pacman using foil.
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Super Mario
Another project that we decided to do was playing Super Mario with Play-Doh. We
made out own keypad and space buttons and then used those to play the
game.
made out own keypad and space buttons and then used those to play the
game.
Piano
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Another Super Mario Game
We made another way to play Super Mario. We used cardboard and pencil lead for this project. We made feet on the cardboard with the graphite and targets for jumps in order to play