7p8 makey makey

Planning Questions

Are you working by yourself or in a team?

I am with Zach

What materials will you need for your project?

a makey makey and play-doh

What is your plan to create in this project?

various creations

What unique qualities will your project have?

it will use play doh as keys or a way to click

Daily Log:

day 1 learned how to use makey makey

day 2 brain storming ideas

day 3 made play doh piano

day 4 made a snake controller

day 5 absent

day 6 absent

day 7 finished reflection

LIST OF 25

1. banana piano

2. whack-a-mole

3. magnetic maze

4. play drums

5. dance game

6. controller

7. key board

8. sausage piano

9. cookie dash game

10. presentation pizzazz

11. snake game

12. minesweeper

13. gummy bear piano

14. gummy bear keyboard

15. voting machines

16. compose music

17. create interactive art

18. interactive play doh sculptures

19. play doh piano

20. holiday whack a mole

21. potato whack a mole

22. create instruments

23. flappy bird

24. mazes

25. compose electric music

Reflection

• Using snake game and makeymakey.com, we created controls with the makey-makey because I wanted to make controls for a game then make the controls better. We made a snake out of play doh connected to earth on the makey-makey. That's what activates the controls we used for the snake game with the makey-makey. We created round and better controls that you would just have to tap, and it would work and move the direction of the button you tapped. We also created a better version of the controls because we used more cords and used all the play doh to make better looking controls.

• During this process, I learned how to connect a cord to earth to make the other cords work. I learned how to use a makey-makey with snake game. I learned how to use more cords and more play doh to make the controls more effective and better looking. Another thing I learned is how to make the controls play like a piano. On my day 1, I learned how to make piano controls that would work by just a single touch. On day 4, I learned how to make flappy bird controls. I learned that I only need 2-4 cords to make flappy bird work while snake game is about 6-8 cords.

• The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to Knowledge Constructer because I used a variety of technology. The variety of technology is iPad, makey makey, and my computer. I'm a knowledge constructor because I used that variety of technology to make controls for a piano, snake game, and flappy bird. I used the iPad to record and take pictures of everything I constructed, then I used iMovie to edit all of it. I'm a knowledge constructor because I used the iPad for pictures, videos, and iMovie then I used the computer to upload all of the videos and I lastly used the makey makey to make all of my projects.

• A challenge I overcame on this project was finding out how to make the controls work. I was able to do it by connecting a white cord to earth and connecting the other end to play doh. Another challenge I overcame was finding how to make the controls work correctly and faster. A challenge I overcame was making better controls for the snake game like a snake model and round controls that will help work better. Another challenge I overcame was getting the right amount of cords to make the makey makey work with my snake game project. The last challenge I overcame was learning what the makey makey is and learning to use the makey makey.

• Given a chance to do this again, I would change how the main controls for the snake game look. The reason why I would change it is because I only had simple controls and not arrow shaped ones that could look like the actual controls. If I was given a chance to do this again, I would change how much I edited my video of my final project. Another thing I would change is how I could just tap my down button on accident for the snake game and it would take a few seconds to go down. Also, if I was given another chance to do this project, I would like to get different color play doh and make each control with a new color of play doh. Lastly, I would change how messy the cords were in the video and straighten them to see which cord controls which is easier.