MaKey MaKey Turns Everyday Objects into a Touch Interface - hardertraturness

Play-Doh control pad for playing Super Mario. [Reference: Jay Silver]

MaKey MaKey is a early Arduino interface board that let's you convert everyday objects into adjoin-based input contraptions. Instead of using your mundane keyboard and mouse, this display board lets you type and click with odd objects like pennies and confect, for example.

Here's how the system works: The MaKey MaKey get on connects to your computer via USB (without any additional software), as well atomic number 3 to whatever restrainer interface you want via a set of gator clips. IT can connect with adequate to cardinal objects that conduct even the tiniest bit of electrical energy, soh most metals and food items are quarry. You can also arrive work with non-conductive objects by applying some copper tape or spritzing them with water.

The idea is that you can utilize the MaKey MaKey board for a innkeeper of excited, inventive experiments with any computer programs you're using or websites you mightiness visit. You could play the keyboard with bananas, turn alphabet soup noodles into an abbreviated keyboard, operating theater play a halting of Mario using a Play-Doh-based controller.

Since MaKey MaKey is actually an ATMega32u4 microcontroller track Arduino Leonardo bootloader, you keister use IT without a computer bridgework to instantly verify a fan, a series of LEDs, or whatever Arduino setup you mightiness make. You can also reprogram its functionality in the Arduino environment.

The MaKey MaKey project is the inspiration of MIT Media Science laborator students Jay Ag and Eric Rosenbaum. Although the Kickstarter project has far surpassed its $25,000 funding goal, you can still get a MaKey MaKey with everything for $35.

You can also try exploitation the MaKey MaKey yourself if you'Ra going to the Bay Area Maker Faire this weekend, May 19 and 20.

[Kickstarter via Engadget]

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