Close × Introduction Background Tools & Materials The MOST Simple Circuit Craft a Circuit TroubleshootingGoing to the Next Level! Hello Light! What is a Circuit? Learn how a simple circuit works so you can create your first circuit and light your first LED! You will learn how to craft a simple circuit, learn how Ma
Do you have anything small that lights up?
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 you
Featured Partnership: Rural Tech Fund We are happy to announce a new partnership with Rural Tech Fund! Through our partnership, educators who receive Makey Makey donations from the Rural Tech Fund will now receive a seat from Makey Makey in our Certified Educator Workshop, a 3-hour virtual class during which educators
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Every February, we honor Black History Month – a time to recognize the achievements, contributions, and rich history of the Black community. While we often celebrate legal milestones and civil rights leaders, there are also brilliant Black inventors who may not be as well known but dramatically changed the way we live,
From life-saving medical devices to must-have beauty products and even some of our
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
In those projects we have relied on a lot of program event blocks to execute code
Learn how a simple circuit works so you can create your first circuit and light your first LED! You will learn how to craft a simple circuit, learn how Makey Makey works by completing a circuit, and learn how humans can connect to make a key press on your computer!
Do you have anything small that lights up?
Draw your own playable instrument, connect Makey Makey to your drawings, and jam out on multiple apps in this Activity.
We have included in the Craft & Code Booster Kit a pencil that we have found works
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 our Interactive Poster app 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
