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
You may have noticed that not all of the materials
Your students can reinvent the world! We love seeing the things educators and their classes invent – they bring us closer to a world built by everyone exploring their ideas and reinventing the things around us.
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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
Introduction You have probably made wonderful music
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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
piano, take some time to explore the options you have
You can easily light an LED with a 3V coin-cell battery, but it’s pretty cool to learn how to light an LED with Makey Makey. It will encourage your students to find interesting ways to build switches that will light up their work. First, turn over your Makey Makey and look for the top header on the back of the board.
To figure out what ohm resistor you need, you have
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 have a limit of five seconds) Press to test
In this class, you’ll start playing with movement and how movement can close a switch. Build a tilt sensor out of foil and a toilet paper tube and use it to control the Scratch cat!
You might have to manipulate your paperclip to keep
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
they are super easy to make and just something to have
