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.
Just use a 6B pencil to draw your controller and plug and play to have your own DIY
Meet Ulla Hauptman, a passionate international educator who has found creative ways to connect biology and computer science using Makey Makey in her classroom. Ulla has a background in biology and computer science and currently teaches students ranging from 5th to 13th grade at a public school in a small German rural t
support from the Hopp Foundation, teachers were able to take everything home to have
Review This Week’s Webinar! TOPIC: STEM From a Distance: Creating Content and Activities for AT home Learning WHEN: August 27th 12 pm Pacific/ 2 pm Central/ 3 pm Eastern In this new webinar series, we are reaching out to educators all over the world to see how they are tackling the challenges of teaching STEM in the er
He is focused on getting kids to be inventive with the materials and things they have
Create your own Ableton controller with a Makey Makey and you can trigger samples, control loops and play beats with this arcade inspired device. Using arcade buttons and a Makey Makey, you can build your own custom controller and perform electronic music live, all with the push of an arcade button. Ableton controller
box’ cases are excellent (and relatively inexpensive), but if you don’t have
Guest Post by Colleen Graves Hi lovely Makey Makey Community, I’m our head of curriculum and digital content (also known as our instigator of fun.) This last week, I’ve seen that the progression of COVID-19 here in the US (and around the world!) Everyday, I’ve heard about schools closing and folks starting to self-qu
Reaction challenge from the Tinkering Studio and I’m feeling more positive than I have
Banana pianos are awesome, but what about playing music with your feet?  Introducing our new guides to build your own oversized floor piano or your own portable piano!  In this new guide, you can build a quick floor piano with HVAC tape, or go oversized with cardboard. If you want to go further, you can use this pia
Piano and Fruit Piano Guide Learn Piano Keys with Makey Makey by Beverly Lowe Have
Last week, we learned about this really peaceful and relaxing music project made with a guitar and Makey Makey wind chimes by Gunner Basinger. Give it a listen…. We asked Gunner to share a little more about this project. „This duo features a homemade electric wind chime and electric guitar as part of a project for a
Have you made a music or art project with Makey Makey?
Johnny Tal (whom we’ve featured before in this post) shared an amazing new idea with us this week on our Facebook educator group! Johnny made musical soap bubbles! He used a very thin wire inside the straw he is blowing the bubbles through, one end of the wire is grounded when he blows through the straw and the other
the list (all playing in pentatonic scale), monitor what’s being triggered, and have
Back in February, Tom & Liam (our intrepid Makey Makey Education team) travelled south of the border to Mexicali, the capital of Baja California, Mexico. Their mission? To lead a hands-on workshop for elementary school teachers and makerspace volunteers, as part of a broader initiative to promote STEM education ini
€Â™s enthusiastic support and willingness to come to Mexicali, we wouldn’t have
Makey Makey is coming to FETC Come by and see us at FETC in booth #4326 and register to win a free Makey Makey (one given away each hour) or a STEM Pack classroom set. Also see some cool examples of using Makey Makey in the classroom. Makey Makey Overseas for BETT! Colleen, Tom, and Melican are going to the BETT confer
Or email us to set up a meeting. Instructables Contest Have we mentioned how
