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Makey Makey [regional kit].

Makey Makey, 2015.

MAKEY MAKEY KIT

Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.

Electricity -- Juvenile literature.

Inventions -- Juvenile literature.

Scientific recreations -- Juvenile literature.

Creative lab equipment - Central Library.

View a youtube demo of a Makey Makey here

[regional kit].

5 Makey Makeys.

MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century. 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 inbetween. How Does it Work? Alligator Clip two objects to the MaKey MaKey board. For example, you and a banana. When you touch the banana, you make a connection, and MaKey MaKey sends the computer a keyboard message. The computer just thinks MaKey MaKey is a regular keyboard (or mouse). Therefore it works with all programs and webpages, because all programs and webpages take keyboard and mouse input. Any material that can conduct at least a tiny bit of electricity will work. Some of the materials people have used in our workshops including Ketchup, Pencil Graphite, Finger Paint, Lemons, etc. Other materials that work great: Plants, Coins, Your Grandma, Silverware, Anything that is Wet, Most Foods, Cats and Dogs, Aluminum Foil, Rain, and hundreds more.

Includes 5 individual Makey Makey sets (full kit w/ 5 sets must be borrowed at once. You can't borrow one individual Makey Makey set out of the 5).

Program materials.

Rosenbaum, Eric.

Emerging Technologies, Halifax Public Libraries

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory.

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