The good folks at Joy Labz were kind enough to send me a MaKey Makey for review, and let me tell you, I've been having a pretty great time playing around with it. For those unfamiliar, the MaKey Makey ...

Two MIT Media Lab students created "an invention kit for the 21st century" and recently attempted to raise $25,000 via Kickstarter. The project instead raised more than half a million dollars, piquing ...

I stopped by the MaKey MaKey booth at Maker Faire on Sunday and was very impressed by what I saw. They appear to have everything needed to make a successful Kickstarter campaign: a cool product, ...

This program is intended to be used in Middle/High school physics class in order to measure the speed of a moving object on a track using two Makey-makey input devices. To use, follow the steps: ...

A pair of graduate students from MIT Media Lab have taken to Kickstarter to fund a project designed to turn anyone into an inventor. The MaKey MaKey invention kit allows an individual to turn just ...

For the past couple of weeks we've been doing a bunch of experiments creating instruments, game controllers, and other playful interfaces for computers using MaKey MaKey. It's been a fun and ...

[Guillermo Amaral’s] NES controller was in great shape. Well, except for the fact that it didn’t work. Upon closer inspection it seems the shift register — which is the only IC on these ancient ...

Makey Makey Go is a super-cheap invention kit. For $19, you get a USB stick and an alligator clip; use the two in tandem and you can turn (almost) anything into a keyboard or mouse button. Examples of ...

You want to increase student buy-in on a project by designing a challenge with a connection to the “real world.” You want your students to see their work as authentic and not just an academic exercise ...