What is Makey Makey all about?

Makey&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;is a DIY kit that has been&nbsp;in the market since 2012. It has an&nbsp;Amazon rating 4.6,&nbsp;and uniform high ratings across all selling&nbsp;and review platforms. The current upsurge in its popularity started in 2020, with coding, hardware and home electronics projects becoming extremely popular during the lockdown.&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;started trending so much this year that it got sold out on Amazon and&nbsp;Flipkart&nbsp;several times since April. Let’s see why&nbsp;parents, students and teachers find it such fun.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



What is&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;Makey?&nbsp;&nbsp; Makey&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;is a&nbsp;hardware-based&nbsp;invention kit that encourages users&nbsp;to find creative ways to interact with&nbsp;their computers, by using everyday objects instead of a keyboard and mouse.&nbsp;It’s popular videos on&nbsp;Instagram&nbsp;and YouTube show people using a banana instead of a space bar, a staircase to play the piano, toy clay instead of a mouse, PPT slides moving every time 2 users do a high five, and other incredible projects. Of course,&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;Makeys&nbsp;signature crocodile clips and wiring connect these objects, from the banana to the stairs, with its circuit board.&nbsp;&nbsp;



How was&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;invented?&nbsp;&nbsp; MaKey&nbsp;MaKey&nbsp;was born as a student project by&nbsp;Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum, as part of their research at&nbsp;MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten&nbsp;programme.&nbsp;Their&nbsp;first experiment with&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;in&nbsp;2010&nbsp;had&nbsp;participants&nbsp;creating a console game with&nbsp;a beach ball as a controller and water buckets as the foot-pads. In 2012, after several prototypes,&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;was&nbsp;launched&nbsp;through a Kickstarter&nbsp;fundraiser campaign that got over $50,000.&nbsp;&nbsp;



How does&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;work?&nbsp;&nbsp; This is clearly a fun kit whose bizarre experiments are loved by teenagers and college students. But how does it work? The&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;is a two-sided circuit board, compatible with the popular hardware kit&nbsp;Arduino.&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;Makey&nbsp;uses high resistance switching to detect when&nbsp;a connection&nbsp;is made with anything attached at the end of its wiring with the crocodile clips. The software built into the hardware board then communicates this signal with a computer&nbsp;using the Human Interface Device (HID) protocol, making the connected object work just like an input device,&nbsp;i.e.,&nbsp;keyboard or mouse.&nbsp;&nbsp;

This DIY invention kit is back in news. Let’s see why students are buying and gifting it.  

Makey Makey: Why is everyone talking about this electronic kit again?

This DIY invention kit is back in news. Let’s see why students are buying and gifting it.

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