Since its launch four years ago, the Makey Makey invention kit has been used to turn bananas into piano keyboards, make potted plants talk when handled and transform the outstretched hands of audience ...

What if your pencil drawings could become your video-game controller? Or, weirder yet, your bananas could become a musical instrument? Such conversions from physical objects to digital interfaces are ...

There are plenty of interactive Arduino projects for beginners, but for the last decade, Makey Makey has been a favorite among kids, parents, and educators alike. Created by MIT alums Jay Silver and ...

Makey Makey Go is a super-cheap invention kit. For $19, you get a USB stick and an alligator clip; use the two in tandem and you can turn (almost) anything into a keyboard or mouse button. Examples of ...

[Guillermo Amaral’s] NES controller was in great shape. Well, except for the fact that it didn’t work. Upon closer inspection it seems the shift register — which is the only IC on these ancient ...

Jay Silver and his co-founder's concept was simple: Hook up everyday objects to small circuits and turn them into touchpads. See how their MaKey MaKey invention kit is changing the way we interact ...

As I discovered when reviewing the Minty Geek Electronics Lab a while back, experimenting with circuit building can be a great deal of fun. There was one particular project in this kit that made use ...

Why bother with trackpads and keyboards when you could control your PC with fruit and Play-Doh instead? That’s the central question behind Makey Makey Go, a $19 Kickstarter project that turns everyday ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

It’s really a wonder that we missed this one, what with all the extra time in front of a computer we’ve had over the last year or so. But better late than never, we always say, so behold, (a little at ...