Makey Makey

Makey Makey boards are pretty cool. They allow you to control your computer by just touching items! Here's how it will work. You need a Makey Makey board, some crocodile clips, some paper, a soft pencil, and a computer!

1) Plug your Makey Makey board into your computer's USB port.

2) Go to https://www.abcya.com/games/flappy_dragon

3) Make a dense line from the edge of the paper and clip a crocodile clip onto the edge of the paper with the pencil marking on it. Attach the other end of the crocodile clip to the Click or Space parts of the Makey Makey board.

4) Hold the Earth line of the Makey Makey board in one hand, and with your other hand tap the pencil drawing on the paper. The electricity should flow through the crocodile clip, along the pencil markings, through your finger (you won't feel it) and your body to the Earth strip and back into the computer, making the dragon flap his wings!

See how complex you can make your pencil drawings, or if there are other games and websites you can control with a Makey Makey board, like maybe https://jellymar.io/

The Makey Makey website is here.

This is a Makey Makey


Plug it into the computer's USB port


Attach a crocodile clip to the Makey Makey


Clip the other end to your drawing

Make sure you have left a thick layer of pencil on the paper.

Touch the Earth strip with one finger, and the pencil markings with another finger

You then complete the circuit and the Makey Makey is controlling your computer.