Gadgetory

so what is the makeymakey it's a simple circuit board it's an Arduino kinda it's a mouse it's a keyboard and honestly it's a ton of other stuff too it's a little bit confused well stay tuned for the explanation but also open this video in another tab and don't forget to subscribe to channel super fun to see the crew playing Mario counter-strike go and even a song with this little device experience silent performance with the new coolermaster Silencio 652 s minimalist design maximum compatibility click now to learn more so while we've obviously been playing with this thing for a while as you saw in that other video the purpose of this video is to give you a more in-depth view of how exactly the makey makey allowed us to do what we're doing and to plant some ideas in your mind for ways that it might be able to be used for fun or practical applications so the boring explanation of how this little guy works is that it facilitates the completion of a circuit through a signal and ground connection and then sends information based on the completion of said circuit over a USB to a computer which will then take that data as a keyboard or mouse input and hopefully produce a result but boring explanations are well boring and the makey makey is anything but that so what can you do with this thing well hopefully you've seen what we've done on the channel super-fun anyway what Wow but that was just barely scratching the surface of its capabilities and there will probably be future channel Superfund videos dedicated to some of the awesome ideas we have floating around in the office there are already loads of videos of people playing music making vegetables scream when you cut them which is actually rather disturbing along with things like water pianos and interactive dance floors but the point of this video is to give you the 100-foot view of what this is from a hardware perspective so let's do a quick overview of the physical unit on one side you'll see the more simplistic view which has alligator clamp holes for the arrow keys up down left right along with spacebar and left-click amongst the neat circuit board design which features some cool hidden like gaming and music inspired art below this you have the earth or ground bar this side can also be used without any fancy wiring by simply plugging the board into a computer over USB you can then hold a finger to the earth area and tap any input that you would desire with another finger to send that over to the computer and when you do this you'll even see a little LED light up so that you know it's working on the other more awesome side we have access to all the same alligator connectors that we used to but now through some jumper wire connectors we have even more access to ground connections WASD F and G for keyboard inputs up down left left click and right click for Mouse movement and most input in general which is awesome that's quite a few inputs to play with and a ton of fun and this is all we used in our makey makey video for the channel super fun but if you choose to follow the White Rabbit there's an opportunity to go deeper by installing an Arduino IDE also known as integrated development environment and grabbing the makey makey add-on from Sparkfun you can program your makey makey similarly to an Arduino don't worry it's just some basic text editing you'll be ok this enables rebinding all of the inputs of the makey makey which in my opinion makes it way more usable for real world applications and by binding these inputs to something you seldom use like for myself maybe an F key you can get your keyboards unused keys to do cool interesting functions I'm not going to spoil too many things that I might use on channel super fun but one thing that will probably do anyways is a conductive punching bag why conduct a punching bag well if you're getting frustrated with a game you could bind your f1 key to do an alt f4 macro and then if you get mad enough that you want to punch something you can punch the punching bag and it'll close the program for you last but not least there's a jumper wire connector at the top of these output connectors we're going to be focusing on D 14 and D 16 because they control output for keyboard and mouse respectively why would we need these output options well well you can do a lot hooked up your computer and that's pretty cool this thing will make the makey makey a lot more versatile now you can be more mobile with your inventions and creations and you can have a much more integrated environment instead of being constantly hooked up to your computer unless that is your entire environment in which case feel free to carry on but if you do decide to take advantage of these output options you can do cool little things like hooking in an additional LED or much bigger things like home automation that I mentioned earlier and you can use it to act as like an event trigger for motors or other self powered devices in conclusion this thing is pretty freakin cool and it seems like every time I even look at it I think of more awesome ways that I can put it to use it's relatively cheap and very easy for anyone to pick up due to its very wide skill range and it can be used for a seemingly endless list of applications and it happens to be one of those cool opportunities where it's a toy but it happens to teach you things like in this case basic electronics and basic programming while you play with it in those feature channel super fun videos is there anything you guys want to see us try let us know in the comments down below or better yet let us know in the forum speaking of awesome items that can teach you things today's sponsor is iFixit and you've probably used or at least read one of their thousands of in death stare downs or guides on their website but what you might not know is that they have an awesome line of professional electronics tools the crown jewel in this lineup is of course their pro tech tool kit with over 70 tools 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