Makey Makey Invention Kit For Everyone - Use Banana As Keys To Play Mario
They told me I could be anything, so I became an inventor. Yes, you can now say that with pride. The #-Link-Snipped-# Invention Kit designed by two MIT Media Lab students Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum is all that you will need for doing art, engineering, and everything in-between. It basically, makes it possible to convert any electricity conducting object into a keypad. Why that name you ask. Well, Make + Key = MaKey MaKey, that's why. And it's so easy to use (doesn't need you to know even tit-bits of programming ) that you will find yourself using it on every object that you can think of, be it playdoh clay or banana.
Users will have to connect an alligator clip from the board to the object and use USB cable to connect it to a laptop or PC. And lo! You have your brand new keypad controller of your choice. This project has already surpassed its original $25,000 Kickstarter goal and when they start mass producing it, you'll be able to buy this kit for a price as low as $35.
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The amazing duo of Jay and Eric have collaborated with the Sparkfun team who make safe, environmentally responsible (RoHS compliant) circuit boards. The inquisitive electronics geeks among you might have noticed in the image above that users will be able to use Makey Makey in "Arduino mode" for spinning motors or turning on LEDs.  This kit has a ATMega32u4 microcontroller running Arduino Leonardo bootloader and uses the Human Interface Device (HID) protocol. That said, now go ahead and watch the interesting applications of Makey Makey and be an innovator -
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Users will have to connect an alligator clip from the board to the object and use USB cable to connect it to a laptop or PC. And lo! You have your brand new keypad controller of your choice. This project has already surpassed its original $25,000 Kickstarter goal and when they start mass producing it, you'll be able to buy this kit for a price as low as $35.
The amazing duo of Jay and Eric have collaborated with the Sparkfun team who make safe, environmentally responsible (RoHS compliant) circuit boards. The inquisitive electronics geeks among you might have noticed in the image above that users will be able to use Makey Makey in "Arduino mode" for spinning motors or turning on LEDs.  This kit has a ATMega32u4 microcontroller running Arduino Leonardo bootloader and uses the Human Interface Device (HID) protocol. That said, now go ahead and watch the interesting applications of Makey Makey and be an innovator -
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