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 ...

We’ve been getting a lot of emails on the Hackaday tip line about the Makey Makey. This business-card sized circuit board turns everything – bananas, Play-Doh, water, and people – into a touch ...

Can you make your own video game controller? Can you use play-doh to type on a computer? How can you make your own digital musical instrument using household materials? Invention Literacy with Makey ...

To understand Jay Silver, it helps to go back 10 years, to a night he spent flying kites on a beach in his native Florida with the woman who would become his wife. She asked him whether he knew how to ...

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Play-Doh control pad for playing Super Mario. [Credit: Jay Silver] MaKey MaKey is a new Arduino interface board that let’s you convert everyday objects into touch-based input contraptions. Instead of ...

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 ...

If someone were to tell me that I could make a piano out of bananas, I’d probably say to them “you’re nuts!” But after I checked out a Kickstarter project called MaKey MaKey I now know that it’s a ...

Jay Silver had a smash hit when he co-created Makey Makey, a do-it-yourself invention kit for everybody. And now he is unveiling GameBender, an educational game console startup that has funding from ...