Draw your own playable instrument, connect Makey Makey to your drawings, and jam out with this free guide. Learn how to connect Makey Makey to multiple apps for maximum fun!
Have you clicked on the piano to bring browser focus to the piano?
Computers do a great job of counting and keeping track of numbers. Let’s put that strength to good use and build a physical stomp counter using the BBC micro:bit and the Code-a-Key backpack! Let’s get physical with our computing projects! Makey Makey
If you have never built a stomp switch before, don’t worry about it, we have
Makey Makey Joystick Invention Launchpads are Creative Learning STEM Kits for students, educators, and makers. Turn everyday objects like bananas into touchpads and combine them with the internet. Connect the physical world to your computer. Code, invent, and learn.
get you started building right away, but the real magic starts when you find you have
Sometimes pressing a button is just too much! What if you could use light to control your mouse clicks, press a key or better yet… make music on your computer! Using the Code-a-Key backpack with the micro:bit, we can do just that… build a flashlight piano! This project focuses on creating a light-controlled piano, but
Micro USB cable Makey Makey mini USB Cable Flashlight / light source When you have
You have your Keytar built, and you have played a few tunes.
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
All awesome ideas and we totally want you to play with the materials you have on
This activity allows you to combine Makey Makey and Scratch to create an interactive poster. While designing your own interactive poster, you will investigate how circuits work. Plus, you’ll begin to think about user interface design and how it is important when designing physical computing projects.
You can use pencil lead (we prefer 6B pencils which have heavier graphite than your
We are so excited to introduce our newest class of Global Makey Makey Ambassadors! We love seeing passionate maker educators spreading around the globe from Fiji to Iraq to Tennessee! Check out this Ambassador Map! Without further ado… Meet our new ambassadors and check out their Instructables guides!  2019-2020 Am
I have been proselytizing unofficially as Makey Makey student projects have had a
Makey Mouse Backpack What if you could make a mouse out of cheese? The Makey Mouse Backpack breaks out your mouse controls to “gator bitesâ€� so you can easily clip to fun items for unique drag-and-drop experiences. The Makey Mouse Backpack breaks out the four directions of mouse movement (up, down, left, right) as well
We have built a few example projects to get you going, but we know that any Makey
Thanks to Mark Schreiber and Year in the Making, our content creator Colleen Graves, was able to share some free professional development yesterday for maker educators. The topic? Some of our favorite things: Physical computing with Scratch and Makey Makey. In case you missed it, we wanted to share all the resources
Makey Makey Poetry: Create four visuals to represent a poem read in class and have
