Makey Makey is turning everyday objects into touch pads using our Chromebook, power board and electrical currents.
We did lots of interesting experiments.
The first we tried was using bits of fruit to make piano sounds. To do this we had to connect 7 of the 8 wires from the main power board to the fruit. We had to have one cord spare at all times to connect to the Earth which was at the bottom of the power board. If it was not connected to Earth it won't work even if you tried your hardest.
We also used scissors to play the game Pacman and pencil and paper to play Mario jump.
My favourite was using a pencil to draw an up,down,left & right arrow on a piece of paper. We then connected the 4 colour wires from the board to the paper making sure that we had the right colours matching otherwise it wouldn't work as well.
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