Make a portable floor piano with foil, a yoga mat, and a Makey Makey. Then live out your BIG dreams!
On a keyboard, when your finger presses a key, it makes
Close × Introduction Background Tools & Materials Creating the Base of Your Piano Wire Maintenance Creating SharpsBringing it All Together TroubleshootingGoing to the Next Level! Build a Floor Piano This large scale (see what we did there?) piano takes about one hour to set up. It works great with our Piano App for
On a keyboard, when your finger presses a key, it makes
Imagine a classroom where the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds blur; everyday objects transform into interactive learning tools, and students become the architects of their mathematical understanding. Enter the realm of Makey Makey in the math classroom! Let’s dive in and look at some of our faves and
Then, students can use their fingers to add and subtract
Close × Introduction Background Tools & Materials Craft a Cardboard Guitar Jam Out on the Makey Makey Sampler App!TroubleshootingGoing to the Next Level! Jam Out with a Makey Guitar Let’s turn things up to 11 by crafting our own cardboard guitar! Learn to upload your own guitar sounds to the Makey Makey Sampler, or
cutting paper, tape and other things other than your fingers
The ‘Musical Paint Brushes’ offer a variety of therapeutic benefits to include: improving fine motor coordination, improve grasp, improve visual motor coordination, improve cause/effect understanding and improve social play. Accessibility / Assistive Technology / Occupational Therapy / Gamify Learning
Now use your fingers to intertwine the wire into the
We love the innovative ways that educators (in both formal and informal learning spaces) introduce learners to the concept of physical computing with Makey Makey and coding languages like: Scratch, Processing, and Python. Each month, we like to feature an educator and a unique project they’ve worked on recently. To rea
BUTTONS that you can press with parts other than fingers
Last week over on our Facebook educator group, Michael Carroll (inventor at Scrappy Circuits) posed this question… What are you favorite conductors to use with MakeyMakey and your students? Any unexpected ones? I’ll get the list started with aluminum foil. (I ❤️ foil). This lead to some interesting teaching ideas
So if you use this tape, make sure to protect fingers
Makey Makey started out as a project that was initiated by two students at MIT Media Lab under the advisorship of Mitch Resnick and is an academic and artistic project. Now it’s both a business and a project with thousands of community collaborators, with more joining the ranks of inventors every day.
tools and invention kits such as Drawdio, Singing Fingers
Close × Introduction Background Tools & Materials Creating Conductive Pads Stompy Fun with Apps TroubleshootingGoing to the Next Level! Building a Cardboard Stomp Switch Use this guide to create the ultimate stomping pad with Makey Makey. With this guide, you will learn to make an oversized weight sensitive stomp p
cutting paper, tape and other things other than your fingers
Close × Introduction Background Tools & Materials What’s a Sensor? Build a Tilt Sensor! Tilt-a-Sketch! TroubleshootingGoing to the Next Level! Tilting Cup Joystick Our hope is that you build custom sensors and inputs with Makey Makey using everyday materials to emulate sensors you find in different goods and produc
cutting paper, tape and other things other than your fingers
