Boston Makers and Hyde Square Task Force experimented this week with MaKey MaKey an open source micro controller that turns everyday objects into touch pads! Check out the photos below.
MaKey MaKey is an invention kit created by Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum and based on research at MIT Media Lab that turns everyday objects into touchpads and combines them with the internet. It’s a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing buy bactrim 400 mg art, engineering, and everything in between. The circuit was designed in collaboration withSparkfun. The original funding was Kickstarted. Check it out!
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.
