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Makey Makey ABC's: In this activity students are tasked with this challenge: Can you create an interactive alphabet that will help younger students learn the names and sounds of letters? Students use Scratch and Makey Makey to make the interactive alphabet. By incor…
Science lessons, STEM and FOSS activities, Google Interactive Science Engagement all at the Science School Yard...let's make science child's play.
The original Makey Makey Classic - Named one of Consumer Reports’ “Best Tech Toys of 2014," "Best of Toy Fair 2014" by Popular Science, and a finalist for Toy of the Year 2016. Makes STEM Education fun! Start out easy with a banana piano. First setup takes seconds. Then make game controllers, musical instruments, and c
Quick video showcasing my new Makey Makey Slider creation! Great fun for kids to make and program with. All you need it some cardboard, a hot glue gun, and a...
Interactive Makey Makey Animals: This project is easy to get kids into learning about the basics of electricity and circuits all while using the wonderfully easy Makey Makey
Makey Makey Dance Revolution : This mat was made to be used with one Makey Makey Kit. For a fun games night use two kits and make a second mat, that way you and your friends can compete. Check out our Scratch game which we customized to be used with our mat!
Makey Makey Floor Piano: Who doesn't want to dance around on a giant floor piano like Tom Hanks in Big? There are many great Makey Makey piano tutorials on the web. We wanted to make a version that really looked like a piano and that worked without participants having to ho…
Makey Makey Tiny Museum!: In this hands-on collaborative project, students create an interactive “Tiny Museum” to showcase their learning at the end of a unit, quarter, or year. Each of the “rooms” in this museum holds miniature artifacts: models, artwork, graphs, photos, q…
This is the second post in a series about the use of the Makey Makey for faculty professional development in technology, design, and creativity. As I described in my last post, the first incarnation of my Makey Makey project, was a relatively inelegant "instrument" I hacked together using some fruit, kitchen utensils, and a Google Coder…
Classrooms are going bananas for Makey Makey! Check out these great cross-curricular projects on Instructables made by teachers like you!
Makey Makey MIDI Controller: Makey makey is a microcontroller that acts as a keyboard when it's plugged into your computer. I reprogrammed it so that it sends midi notes. Why? Because when you use a keyboard to control things the window you're controlling has to be active all…
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Clay Makey Makey Controller: Ok, so in this instructable I'm going to show you how to create a keyboard using clay and makey makey.
Makey Makey Dance Mat: Create this fun interactive dance mat with square foam pieces, a Makey Makey, laptop, aluminum tape, and alligator clips.
