Make Makey Makey using Arduino. 21 everyday objects you can hack, from a bacon sandwich to a pencil. Jay Silver demonstrates how a cat’s water bowl can be rigged to take photos. Photo: Ryan Lash MaKey MaKey — the kit that encourages you to rig a banana piano or control a video game with pencil-etchings — was one of the most successful projects on Kickstarter in 2012. The project raised 2, 272% of its goal in 30 days, bringing in a cool half million from excited makers. Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard! Today’s TED Talk comes from the co-creator of the MaKey MaKey, Jay Silver. In this madcap romp, he reveals his first invention — a pasta spinner rigged from a fork and drill — and how it led him to a fascination with the way that things are made.
Throughout the talk, given during our in-office salon TED@250, he shows some incredible projects, both his own and those of others, like a paint brush that makes anything it touches play electronic music and a cat’s water bowl that lets the feline snap photos of itself as it drinks. J. How to Make a Custom Operation Game. Operation is a game that lets you test your hand-eye coordination by removing a variety of ailment tokens from a cartoon patient without touching the metal sides of each slot. Since its release in 1965, there have been a lot of special editions created.
These feature popular characters such as Buzz Lightyear, R2D2 and Iron Man. The game’s simple design makes it very versatile and easy to adapt. In this project, I show you how you can make your own Operation style game from scratch. This time is it’s Makey, MAKE’s familiar red robot mascot, that goes under the knife. The complete project is here. Jason Poel Smith My name is Jason Poel Smith. Related. Cardboard robot video game controller + Scratch + MaKey MaKey.
MaKey MaKey DDR Pads. I’m back to share with you the very first contraption I rigged up with my MaKey MaKey kit: dance pads for playing Flash Flash Revolution more like the game it imitates. (If you missed my first post that explains the concept of the MaKey MaKey, you should check it out here: Making Keys with MaKey MaKey!) Flash Flash Revolution is an online flash version of the dance video game Dance Dance Revolution. As with DDR, you pick a song and as it plays, patterns of arrows drift down the screen. The goal is to use the game controls to match the arrow keys in time with the music. DDR is played with a pad on the floor with arrows that you stomp, so playing the game makes you dance (or flail madly, depending on your level of skill). FFR is played with the arrow keys on your keyboard–not quite as satisfying and definitely not as much of a workout. So, I decided to use my MaKey MaKey to create my own floor pads. Whereas real DDR pads work using pressure, mine would work by conducting a charge.
FFR The Game - FlashFlashRevolution.com. MaKey MaKey Deluxe Kit, Keyboard/Mouse via Conduct. Turn almost anything into a keyboard or mouse! MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century. It allows you to turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. It's a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing art, engineering, and everything in between. The heart of MaKey MaKey is a printed circuit board with an ATmega32U4 microcontroller running Arduino Leonardo firmware.
It uses the Human Interface Device (HID) protocol to communicate with your computer, and it can send keypresses, mouse clicks, and mouse movements via USB. The board uses a pull-up resistor of 10-50 MΩ. Default inputs — no programming required There are six inputs on the front of the board which can be attached to objects via alligator clipping, soldering to the pads, or any other method you can think of. If you wish to use a different set of keys, or otherwise change the behavior of your MaKey MaKey, you can simply reprogram it using the Arduino environment. Deluxe Kit Contents. Can I make a full USB keyboard with Makey Makey + Raspberry Pi.
If you just want to make a keyboard, without using your Makey Makey, you can do that using the GPIO functionality of the Raspberry Pi. But like commented before, the Raspberry Pi does not have sufficient pins available to make a keyboard that is actually useful. However, if you are willing to add 2 IC's you can make yourself a keyboard with so much keys that you will have a problem to come up with a function for every key!
My suggestion is to connect 2 I2C IC's to the I2C bus on the Raspberry Pi, and use those to create your own scan matrix. If you use one PCF8574 you have 8 I/O pins available, if you get a PCF8575 you even have 16 I/O pins available. By combining then you can get a scan matrix of: 64 keys: (2x PCF8574)128 keys: (1x PCF8574 & 1x PCF8575)256 keys: (2x PCF8575) You have to use always one of them as output, and one as input. The reason for this truckload of diodes is that it will prevent things like ghosting and masking of keys. Hope this helps you a little. MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone - Buy Direct (Official Site)
Ever played Mario on Play-Doh or Piano on Bananas? Alligator clip the Internet to Your World. In stock! Ships immediately! Reviews "four-year-old daughter has managed to connect the kit" ~BBC "Rejoice! " ~Mashable "by far the coolest Kickstarter project" ~Kotaku "turns the whole world into a keybaord" ~Engadget "a lot of enthusiasm and love" ~Wired "crazy, inventive experiments" ~PC World "We love a good diy project" ~LIfehacker "So small, so quirky, so simple, so awesome. " Get Awesome Updates! Order Your Kit Includes MaKey MaKey, Red USB Cable, 7 Alligator Clips, 6 Connector Wires.