Make a portable floor piano with foil, a yoga mat, and a Makey Makey. Then live out your BIG dreams!
scale. Space each foil out on your background before attaching to make sure you have
Featured Educator Series 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 w
cutting, Makey-Makeys, Hummingbird robotics, and Finch 2.0 robots.  "Students have
Each week in November we will be featuring new projects to try with your Makey Makey invention kit! We’d love to feature your work on our blog and will be sending swag and prizes to community members who share great ideas! We saw this amazing musical floor mat on Twitter yesterday and wanted to share it as part of #Ne
You might want to fold the edge of the tape so you have a nice spot where you can
Let’s learn to code key presses in Scratch. Makey Makey is fun with lots of apps, but once you learn to code your own key presses, the possibilities for inventing are endless!
 If you have not used Scratch with Makey Makey before, the video below is designed
Getting Unstuck is a 10 day exploration from the Creative Computing Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  „Getting Unstuck is a summer learning experience for teachers who want to learn more about supporting creative work with the Scratch programming language. Every day, you’ll get an email with a small, c
This project shows how to have an alarm set to go off only when the space key is
Join the Makey Makey team to learn some engaging ways to use Makey Makey in your classroom. From switches, to building circuits, to interactive art, this lively webinar is a must for teachers, students, and makers of all ages that are new to Makey Makey and aren’t sure how to get beyond the banana piano. The best way t
Starting with Makey Makey After completing your first time Makey Makey set up, have
Get up off the couch and actually run and jump when you need the Sprite to move on the screen. You can use these game pads with any Scratch project in which the Sprite moves with key controls. Learn to build a switch for Makey Makey, learn about conductivity and the conductivity of different materials, learn to program a simple Scratch program that reacts to the switch being activated, induce physical activity when gaming.
 Picture Frame If you have a third piece of cardboard as opposed to inch wide
It’s New Project November! Every week in November we are sharing new projects to try with your Makey Makey Invention Kit. Join us this week to make your own wire game! Make your own arcade style STEM game with the Makey Makey invention kit and our Get Up + Go Booster Kit!
Metal is conductive, but most coat hangers have a coating that will insulate the
We know that learning is going to look different next school year, and we are hoping we can help by providing content for kids, whether they’ll be learning from home or at school. To celebrate the end of this school year, we wanted to share some ideas for how you could plan to divide up a STEM pack.
been busy building these beginner classes for students (age 8 and up), plus we have
Updated October 16th to include the community’s exit tickets! First: We Were Challenged to Makey Makey Last week our content creator, Colleen Graves, was challenged on Twitter to Makey Makey a version of this informal exit rating system found in the Toronto International airport. I want one of these for my classroom. I
(It’s free and you don’t even have to sign in to access it.)
