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
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
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 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
Player 2 Backpack Ever wanted to add a second player? Plug in this backpack to instantly double your game controls and double the fun! Enable player 2 with this gameriffic backpack and create custom game controllers along with friends. The Player 2 Backpack brings the WASDFG keyboard key input header on the back of the
� � Makey Makey Backpack Bundle $44.95 Makey Makey backpacks have invention
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
This project is a guitar, but that doesn’t mean that you have to make yours as 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 bites� 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
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 will feature an educator and a unique project they’ve worked on recently. To read m
members: Scratch, MakeCode, Makey Makey, and micro:bit hardware. You always 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 to use Ohm’s Law.
