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My team and I are buiding a new, different way to play the famous board game "SORRY!", using Makey Makey hardware. This entails finding a material, PlayDoh, to conduct electricity along Alligator cords, in order to transfer commands into the game. This is going to be quite a challenge. Buttons of PlayDoh will be in place to move the Sorry! pegs forward, back to home, etc. My team has decided to do the coding in Cospaces. There is a problem that we are overcoming, however, and that is actually programming the Sorry board. It is slow-going. Only one of us can control it at a time, and the same goes for programming it. We are racing against time.
In retrospect, the Makey Makey project was fun and a bit of a challenge. We finally got buttons for every direction, and we are able to play a functioning game of Sorry! It was kind of nerve-wracking for a minute, how slow the project was moving along.
Something I would've done differently is that I would have split up the work into two sections, two of us working on the actual Makey Makey, and two working on the coding of the Sorry! board.
This was a Knowledge Constructor project for me; I was required to get a feel for the programming of the Makey Makey, and build on it to create the pads along with my group. It was also an Empowered Learner project; my group and I had to learn a lot about the Makey Makey gear in conjunction with the coding of the board.
Now, I will get on with it and list 25 uses for Makey Makey.
1. To make a banana controller
2. To make a marshmallow controller
3. To make a drawing of a piano to play the piano
4. To make a picture of Sonic the Hedgehog to control Sonic the Hedgehog
5. To play Mario with a picture of Mario
6. To play the drums on Play Doh drums
7. To play Sorry! with Play Doh
8. To make the cover of a book into a button for your code
9. To draw a picture of a car and then make it honk
10. To make a picture of a deer make a gunshot sound, followed by an agonized shriek, signaling that it has been destroyed.
11. To make a marshmallow man and attach a cord to his face and make it say the words of the script of the Bee Movie.
12. To make a banana make a weird noise for no reason
13. To make a cat picture monolouge the script of the Bee Movie
14. To make a dog picture monolouge the Bee Movie script
15. To make a picture of Jerry Seinfield monolouge the Bee Movie script
16. To make a picture of Barry the Bee monolouge the Bee Movie script
17. To make a picture of a photorealistic bee monolouge the script of the Bee Movie
19. To make a picture of Kermit the Frog monolouge the script of the Bee Movie
20. To teach children to make outside commands interact with a code
21. To play a game of Simon Says with marshmallows
22. To make a picture of a bomb go BOOM
23. To make a picture of an apple make a chomp sound like some body is eating it
24. To make a picture of a banjo make banjo sounds
25. To play the kazoo in varying tones using an online source as well as gummi bear buttons.
A63256FE-8E9F-4751-B991-04D870C4CDB0.MOVA video of us playing Sorry! with our Playdoh buttons
original Sketch for Makey Makey
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