7P5-Makey Makey

Piano
Drums
Guitar
Screaming objects
Talking objects
Pac man
Mario
Video game controller
Carnival
Game show buzzer
Musical things
Maze
Just dance
Map
Songs
Alarm
Compass
Cardboard hand
Fan
Lights
Say words
Race
Coding
Human body
Domino affect

Planning Questions: Project #1

I'm working with my partner Lucas
I will need the makey makey, my partner and planning
Our plan is to make a piano
The thing that will make our piano better than everybody else project is we are going to use random objects around the room

Planning Questions: Project #2

I'm working with my partner Lucas
I will need my makey makey, planning, and ideas
Our plan is to do something that hasn't been done before
It's going to be different because no one else will have thought of it

Reflection: #1

Using Scratch and the Makey Makey, I created a game show buzzer because we thought we could play something like a game show and if you get the question wrong we press the buzzer. The game would have a lot of questions and stuff. I guess all around though we just made it for fun.
During this process, I learned that play-doh is a pretty good tool to use for makey makey's not only food. I also learned that when you make a buzzer don't make it to loud, especially when at one point you accidentally hit it. When making this I should have made the buzzer make a weird sound because ours was kind of boring. We definitely could and should have made it better, but I guess you learn from mistakes.
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 Constructor because we had to use our prior knowledge of coding to make the buzzer sound right and work. I also had to work with my partner on how to make it work, so that's the "Constructor" part.
A challenge I overcame on this project was when we kind of screwed up the code so we had to only slightly redo it. I was able to do it by going back to the mistake and fixing the problem. We found out that it was wrong because it obviously didn't work how we planned it to. All I had to do though was just take the wrong code out and put the right one in.
Given a chance to do this again, I would change the sound of the buzzer, like I said before. The reason why I would change it is because it's ok but it could be better. Let's just say it could be a lot more fun/goofier. Especially because it's just a buzzer and there's nothing else to it, but we could use it for a game type thing.
Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing. My project connects to the Digital Multimedia CTE program at Hastings High School. My project connects to careers in something like factories, video game designer, and/or something like NASA and be a person that puts codes in to make the robots work the way they should .

Reflection: #2

Using my prior knowledge about coding and makey makeys', I created a piano that plays multiple keys because we thought it would be something very entertaining and fun to mess around with. When making the piano I thought we should probably put more than three or so keys. So then we made like six keys to pick and play from, that brought a lot more different sounds. Now our piano goes from pretty high to pretty low.
During this process, I learned that coding more keys for the piano would be better and let you pick a different variety of pitches. I also learned that once you get the hang of coding it becomes easy and I realized it doesn't take a lot of codes to make something work. Now I understand most of the parts of coding about how they work and which one has a certain purpose
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 Computational Thinker because I feel like I actually put a little bit of thought into this based on which codes to use and figuring out how many sounds it can make. It can make quite a few sounds, so we picked an in- between area where our piano doesn't go to high but also not to low. It's in the middle area.
A challenge I overcame on this project was what codes to use because there were so many to chose from to make our piano more interesting. I was able to do it by using my reason and trying to plan out how it was gonna work. I definitely could have used any other keys to make my piano sound more different than it is now but I chose the ones I did because I thought it might sound nicer than the others. It also needed to sound like a piano.
Given a chance to do this again, I would change the coding of the piano because we kind of made it more complicated than it actually had to be. It should probably not have been that long but it's fine because our piano works the way we want it to so.
Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing. My project connects to the Computer Programming CTE program at Hastings High School. My project connects to careers in Engineer, someone working in factories, and robotics programmer.