Makey Makey - An Invention Kit for Everyone

Makey Makey is a game-changer! As a parent, I'm always looking for educational toys that inspire creativity in my kids. Makey Makey does just that. It's intuitive, fun, and sparks endless imagination. From turning bananas into piano keys to creating custom controllers for video games, the possibilities are endless. It's not just a toy; it's a tool for learning and innovation.

I bought the Makey Makey to create ridiculous musical toys after watching videos of banana pianos and watermelon bongos. I wasn't disappointed, it's colourful, easy to use and insanely fun. You can use it as a controller for playing games or to trigger sounds / videos. To be completely honest though, it's really difficult to give the Makey Makey a fair review as the usage possibilities are endless and I've only used it for a handful of musical ideas. With that in mind, take these 5 stars and multiply them to the power of infinity. The Makey Makey is a fantastic micro controller that really sparks the imagination.

This is a hilarious little gadget! I've used it to make a couple of things shown in the promo video (gameboy console, fruit drums, cat camera). It really is versatile & can be used to make just about anything. I've ordered some extra cables to turn the stairs into a keyboard; worked perfectly. Really good gift idea for someone who likes to tinker with gadgets; and has a great imagination!!! Would highly recommend.

A fun little project dev board that will get you playing fruit with a touch of your fingers.

The Makey Makey is an exeptional piece of kit. I've used it with school pupils to create keyboard for their Scratch designed games from bananas, clay and many other objects. My favourite was creating a dance mat out of cardboard and aluminium tape. I now own 6 Makey Makey, each one has worked perfectly.

Hours of fun, the possibilities are endless, the programming environment is easier then Microsoft Word to use, as it was design for kids but not so child-like, so adults can use it too.

Bought this about a year ago, and connected various fruits and vegetables to it to play music through Scratch with my son. When the novelty of doing that wore off (well before any sign of rot amongst the veggies), we created a pencil-and-paper piano keyboard, which was fun for perhaps another 30 minutes. We controlled a Scratch sprite with another pencil-and-paper "controller" that we drew. This was fascinating until it wasn't.I note that this extremely simple circuit board is currently selling for just shy of £50. I don't recall what I paid for it - hard to imagine it was as much as that; maybe I just felt especially generous on the day. Let's put this into perspective. For £50 you're getting essentially a one-trick wonder with a novelty half-life of less than a month (a couple of weeks if you're lucky). For £20 less - £30 - you can buy a Raspberry Pi, which is an entire computer on a board, with practically limitless possibilities. I'm not trying to compare the two products, which have completely different uses. I'm just trying to point out the utterly inexplicable disparity in price-for-function here. Clearly, £50 is a MASSIVE mark-up for what amounts to a handful of resistors, a USB controller, and a few wires, when you can buy an entire computer-on-a-board for almost half the cost. You really have to consider whether it's worth the price. In my opinion, it is not. Once the Eureka! moment has passed (and that happens very quickly) - you've discovered the magic of resistance - and realise that, OK, you can control the same things with this board attached to random objects that you could with the equivalent 8 or 9 keys on your keyboard... well, you've gotten your £50 worth, and it will then sit in some drawer for years.

My 8 yr old granddaughter is a digital leader at school where they already use Makey Makey. This was my Christmas gift to her so she can work at home as well. The first thing she did was get it up and running and showing the older generations what fun coding can be!