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Makey Makey Classic by JoyLabz
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You may be the greatest living banana pianist, but how will you ever know if you
don’t make yourself a banana piano? Good news! That project and countless
others are easier than you think with Makey Makey.
Using the Makey Makey you can make anything into a key just by connecting a
few alligator clips. The Makey Makey Classic by JoyLabz is an invention kit that
tricks your computer into thinking that almost anything is a keyboard. This allows
you to hook up all kinds of fun things as an input. For example, play Mario with a
Play-Doh keyboard or piano with fruit!
The Makey Makey Classic uses high-resistance switching to detect when you’ve
made a connection even through materials that aren’t very conductive (like
leaves, pasta or people). This technique attracts noise on the input, so a
moving window averager is used to lowpass the noise. The Makey Makey can
also act like a keyboard or mouse. There are six inputs on the front of the
board, which can be attached to via alligator clipping, soldering to the pads, or
any other method you can think of. There are another 12 inputs on the back, six
for keyboard keys and six for mouse motion, which you can access with jumpers
via the female headers.
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Makey Makey Classic by JoyLabz Product Help and Resources
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Makey Makey Classic
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JANUARY 11, 2018
Be stoked! The world is your
construction kit. How to turn
everyday objects into computer
inputs with the Makey Makey
Classic from JoyLabz.
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