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?
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
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?
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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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?
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
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 can use pencil lead (we prefer 6B pencils which have heavier graphite than your
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
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 the marble in.
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
system for an obstacle course they are super easy to make and just something to have
