Learn coding and circuitry basics as you incorporate sound effects into a story book. Design a soundscape for your story, record your sounds, and use copper tape, Makey Makey and Scratch to help your ...

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When Jay Silver thinks of people with radical ideas, he thinks of his late father starting a food co-op in South Florida in the 1970s. People thought his father, Joel, was crazy for gathering a group ...

Play-Doh control pad for playing Super Mario. [Credit: Jay Silver] MaKey MaKey is a new Arduino interface board that let’s you convert everyday objects into touch-based input contraptions. Instead of ...

Can you make your own video game controller? Can you use play-doh to type on a computer? How can you make your own digital musical instrument using household materials? Invention Literacy with Makey ...

Jay Silver and his co-founder's concept was simple: Hook up everyday objects to small circuits and turn them into touchpads. See how their MaKey MaKey invention kit is changing the way we interact ...

Jay Silver had a smash hit when he co-created Makey Makey, a do-it-yourself invention kit for everybody. And now he is unveiling GameBender, an educational game console startup that has funding from ...

Why bother with trackpads and keyboards when you could control your PC with fruit and Play-Doh instead? That’s the central question behind Makey Makey Go, a $19 Kickstarter project that turns everyday ...

MaKey MaKey is an invention kit created by a pair of MIT Media Lab researchers that turns everyday objects into computer keys and buttons. Video game controller made of Play-Doh. It can create a piano ...

When it launched in 2012, the Makey Makey was the golden child of the maker movement. It was a simple, easy to use board with holes for alligator clips and a USB socket that would present capacitive ...