so what is the Makey Makey it's a simple circuit board it's an Arduino kind of
it's a mouse it's a keyboard and honestly it's a ton of other stuff too
still a little bit confused well stay tuned for the explanation but also open
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to see the crew playing Mario Counterstrike go and even a song with
this little device
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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 Mickey Micky 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 how do
I what terrorist wow
but that was just barely scratching the surface of its capabilities and there
will probably be future Channel Super Fun 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 100t
view of what this is from 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 space bar
and left click amongst a 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 WD f and g for keyboard
inputs up down left left click and rightclick for Mouse movement and mouse
input in general which is awesome that's quite a few inputs to 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 spark fun you can program
your Makey miy similarly to an Arduino don't worry it's just some basic text
editing you'll be okay 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 keyboard's 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 I'll probably do anyways is a conductive punching bag why
conductive 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 D14 and D16 because they control output for keyboard
and mouse respectively why would we need these output options well while 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 feel free to carry on but if you do decide to take
advantage of these output options you could 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- powerered devices in conclusion this thing is pretty freaking
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
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 future Channel Super Fun videos is there anything you guys want to see
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