It's been a while since my last blog about my DTE learning. Here I am again to tackle the topic and the project we've been working on the last term and until 2 weeks of this term. So our topic is about Makey Makey. So what is a makey makey?. Makey makey is a tool where people can use it to connect everyday objects to computer programs. (below is the photo in the DLO part) So to make it work you will need the makey makey, wires, usb cable, and a conductor ( can be you! cause you yourself is a conductor). You need these things to create a circuit and then you will see how it works.
What are we going to do with the makey makey?. Mr. Carter assigned us to research on how can we use makey makey. Then we chose what ideas we wanted to make out of makey makey and we'll create it by ourselves.
DLO
We decided to do a controller. Heart-shaped controller specifically. And here it is:
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| Here's the plan |
REFLECTION
Actually, our controller is not yet finished and it's not yet tested if it will work. Our original plan wasn't like this. The first plan is to create a controller and just put foil all over the bottom of the controller to make it easier and it will just one wire. But that made our problem. Mr. Carter showed that perspective to us and he helped us how to solve it. The point is to separate foil every button. Why? Because if we are going to use one foil, with one tap in a button all of them will work and we want is for buttons to work by themselves with one tap without affecting the other buttons. It seems complicated, yes, we found it like that too but it was making sense. We reversed the plan. We decided to cut some pieces of foil enough to cover the buttons. That solved the problem :).
Our supposedly next step is to decorate it and to actually use it in a game but we lacked time. But it's alright because I found out that Devie ( one of my groupmates) worked on how to make it work. And she managed to check it and it worked. If only we really had time, I could say that it would be successful but it's undone.
RESOURCE
The resources that we used are tools such as cardboard, scissors, tape, foil, pencil, wires, and clay.
QUESTION
Have you checked out Makey Makey? Why not try it?
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