Makey Makey® Inventors Kit Range

The Makey Makey® kit can turn almost anything into a keyboard or mouse, even unlikely things like your cat, a carrot or a coin. Anything that can conduct even the smallest amount of electricity will work completely safely, there's no danger of shocking the cat! See what works for you - plants, coins, your grandma, silverware, anything that is wet, most foods, dogs as well as cats, aluminium foil, rain, and a lot more. The list goes on and you can always experiment with more. Check out the video below but prepare to be amazed. <IFRAME height=281 src="//player.vimeo.com/video/60307041" width=500 webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></IFRAME> Plug the Makey Makey® into your computer, connect yourself to the earth bar simply by holding an alligator clip, and then touch any of the shiny pads to make it work. You will see an LED flash every time you touch the board. Now attach one end of the alligator clips to the shiny pads and the other end to almost anything, touch that and the LEDs light up again. Every flashed LED is a key press or mouse command sent to the PC to control your favourite software. Find music programs, games on the internet and let your imagination run away as you design a custom controller for them. Try drawing a game controller in pencil, hook up the alligator clips and the drawing IS the controller. The kit comes with 7 alligator clips and 6 connector wires as well as a USB cable. No extra purchases are necessary to get the thing to work, not even fruit. For the dedicated inventor you can plug in two or more boards at once and create an orchestra of Makey Makeys! (tested with up to 3, but could work for more). Tthe software is Open Source so you can find it on the internet and modify to it to really experiment. Makey Makey® is compatible with the Arduino development environment (IDE).