bloxels vs makey makey
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Amazing Inventions
Makey Makey
Let's say you load up a piano. Then, instead of using the computer keyboard buttons to play the piano, you can hook up the MaKey MaKey to something fun, like bananas, and the bananas become your piano keys
What Can I Make?THAT'S UP TO YOU! FIRST, LOAD UP A COMPUTER PROGRAM OR ANY WEBPAGE.
Or let's say you Google for an online Pacman game and draw a joystick with a pencil:
Then you can play Pacman by touching the drawing.
Or you could load up facebook or gmail and send a message on a custom-made alphabet-soup keyboard
How does it work?
Your keyboard (or mouse) is an open circuit and you control how to close it!
What could you use in the circuit?
Most fruits and vegetables work great.Lots of other foods work too. For example marshmallows, gummy candies, macaroni and cheese, cupcakes, shrimp, and lots of other things.Plants can work too. Try some leaves or flowers, but nothing too dry.Play-Doh, Model Magic and other clays work very well as long as they stay moist.People are conductive! Connect one person to ground, and another to an input, and you can trigger sounds when they high-five.Graphite from a pencil can work. Make thick, dark lines, and be sure to draw on a smooth surface.Foil and other metal objects will work. Try out coins, magnets, nuts and bolts, forks and knives, or pots and pans.
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Bloxels
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It’s basically a game to make a game. Literally.
It’s a game board that you scan to make a level (or a character).
Bloxels is not just another tech-enabled toy. It’s a hands-on, brains-on, creativity and technology
experience. Bloxels uniquely unlocks kids’ innate creativity by
leveraging something they love: video games. Kids can play fun games and channel their
creative potential as they gain greater understanding of important topics like design logic, and computer science and demonstrate
their knowledge of history, science and mathematics and more
through the games they create.
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