7P9 - Makey Makey

Daily Log

Day 1. I filled out my List of 10 Good Ideas and started brainstorming with my partner. We decided to make a board game video game combo and came up with story for it.

Day 2. Emma and I began work on the real world console and got a few games done.

Day 3. Emma and I created our video and coded the first video game.

Day 4. I created my reflection

Reflection

Using Makey Makey Scratch, carboard, playdough, tape, and alligator we created a simple minigame. We created that because we thought it would be a fun thing to create. We also created it because we had a plan to use it in a bigger game but we unfortunately underestimated the amount of time we had and could not make more.

During this process I learned how to code a Makey Makey to be controlled by a real world conductive object. I also learned how to connect a Makey Makey console and Alligator clips to a computer. Another thing I learned in this project was how to make new sprites in Scratch.

My project ties to the Empowered Learner standard because I was able to make a goal for how much of the box or coding I wanted to get done each day and reflected on whether or not I was able to meet that goal. My project also ties to Innovative Designer because I was able to make something new with mine and my partners own original ideas without pre-existing blueprints. My project ties to Computational Thinker as well because my partner and I needed to put the code in certain orders for it to work the way we wanted it to.

A challenge we overcame in this project was the aluminum foil not working with the Makey Makey and alligator clips. We needed to overcome this challenge because the code would not be controlled by the real world if it could not be controlled by the aluminum foil. We overcame this challenge by switching out the aluminum foil with playdough.

Given a chance to do this project again I would change my time management. I would change this because we spent more time on the surface of the box itself, appearances, and ideas when we should've been spending more time coding. In the end we didn't get as many minigames done as we planned to make.

My project connects to the Computer Programming CTE at Hastings High School. It connects to Computer Programming in that we made strings of code and through Makey Makey and alligator clips, connected them to playdough. My project connects to careers in Game Designer, Engineering Fabrication, and Web Development.