THE BLOG

Fun Fact Friday: What are your favorite conductors?

Feb 15, 2019 Last week over on our Facebook educator group, Michael Carroll (inventor at Scrappy Circuits) posed this question... What are you favorite conductors to use with MakeyMakey and your students? Any unexpected ones? I’ll get the list started with aluminum... READ MORE

A Makey Makey Valentine Gift!

Feb 13, 2019 Happy Valentine's 2019! To celebrate we are releasing a Labz guide with a free template to create an interactive Valentine's card for ya! This paper circuit made with conductive tape from our Inventor Booster Kit and an LED, will have kids... READ MORE

Announcing the All-New Makey Makey Homepage!

Feb 07, 2019 Come celebrate our new homepage with a GIF Contest! We are stoked to announce our new homepage redesign at makeymakey.com, spiffied up with its very own Makey Makey GIF.We'd love to see what kind of Makey GIF you can share with... READ MORE

Engineers Week Webinar with Sylvia Martinez of Invent to Learn

Jan 22, 2019 Engineers Week Webinar (Edited 2/14 to include webinar recording and list of resources mentioned.) To honor Engineers Week, we hosted an informal webinar with author and maker advocate Sylvia Martinez. Gary and Sylvia have just updated and expanded the must... READ MORE

Featured Educators: Kimberly Boyce and Bradley Quentin

Jan 18, 2019 We love the innovative ways that educators (in both formal and informal learning spaces) introduce learners to the concept of physical computing with Makey Makey and coding languages like: Scratch, Processing, and Python. Each month, we will feature an educator... READ MORE

New Scratch 3.0 Extension for Makey Makey!

Jan 09, 2019 Hello 2019 and Scratch 3.0! The new Scratch is here AND it has a Makey Makey Extension. This extension has a super cool new block that allows you to make secret codes and gesture controls for your Scratch games and... READ MORE