In a continuation of our circuit lesson, teacher’s and students were in and out of the Library Lab all week playing the bananas. Using a borrowed Makey Makey kit, students helped construct our amazing "banana piana". It was such a hit, it was insisted that I include a demonstration (and ongoing banana jokes) in our resident Circus Smirkus performance. We were so inspired, we now have our very own kit in the Library Lab that has inspired some composers.
Two separate LEAP groups are working on musical projects. Here we have another cool musical application of our new technology using the Makey Makey. In this project students drew a picture and, using the graphite from the pencil as a conductor, were able to create a program that plays notes when you touch the drawing.
The other group too the Arduino route starting with wiring their board. The two girls played the default song that comes in the example program and wanted to write their own. They then had to research the notes and frequencies to the song they wanted to create in order to reprogram the board. Pretty fascinating stuff! I'm so proud of all of our young engineers!
