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Tuesday 22 Jul 2014

Sistema solar y Makey Makey

A beautiful solar system navigator made using Makey Makey:

Thanks to Andrea Torres ‏(@amekare) for the link.

Tags: science

Tuesday 22 Jul 2014

Makey Makey water sensor

Two years into Makey Makey and people are still constantly blowing us away with their uses. Check out the water sensor by Adriano Parracciani (@CyberParra):

Makey Makey water sensor

Tags: science

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Who's Behind This?

Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum have both been working with invention kits for the last decade. They are the people who brought you Drawdio and Singing Fingers, and they have been on the Scratch programming language team in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT. The kit is based on research at MIT Media Lab, and the circuit was designed in collaboration with Sparkfun. The original funding was Kickstarted.

ERIC'S BIO

Eric Rosenbaum is a doctoral student in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, where he creates new technologies at the intersection of music, improvisation, play and learning. His projects include software for finger painting with sound, painting with light, improvising with looping sounds, and creating interactive behaviors in 3D virtual worlds. His recent speaking appearances have included TEDx Pioneer Valley, Economist Tech Frontiers, and Dust or Magic App Camp. His work has been shown at venues including San Francisco Exploratorium, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, San Jose Tech Museum, and the OFFFmatica and CineKid festivals.

Eric holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Technology in Education from Harvard University. He also holds a Master's degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab, for which he developed Jots, a system to support reflective learning in the Scratch programming environment.

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JAY'S BIO

Jay Silver lives in Florida and is Founder/CEO of JoyLabz/MakeyMakey. Before that, he was a PhD student at MIT Media Lab where he won a Lemelson-MIT Award for Invention and Innovation. He was Intel's first ever Maker Research Scientist. Time named one of his inventions "Top 15 Toys for Young Geniuses." Jay has given talks at TED, PopTech, VMWorld, etc. He has exhibited internationally at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Exploratorium, Ars Electronica, etc.

Jay studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech where he was named Engineer of the Year. He was awarded a Gates Scholarship to earn a master's in Internet Technology from Cambridge University. He also holds a master's in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab where he invented "Camera for the Invisible."

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