{"id":9668,"date":"2017-10-18T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T21:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=9668"},"modified":"2017-12-06T08:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:22:59","slug":"just-got-makey-makey-in-search-of-a-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/18\/just-got-makey-makey-in-search-of-a-banana\/","title":{"rendered":"Just got Makey Makey, in search of a banana &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01GGTU8P0\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B01GGTU8P0&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=f374bde1f410ae0bcb0c05280e01b130\">Makey Makey kit<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B01GGTU8P0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> (which, by the way, is on sale at the link provided, at this moment). <\/p>\n<p>A Makey Makey is a device that allows a do-it-yourselfer to create a closed loop electrical signal, that the Makey Makey device converts into a specific serial signal that is sent via USB to a computer.  The signal is a keystroke or mouse event.  So, you can hook the Makey Makey to, say, a banana and a laptop, then when you touch the banana the laptop gets a mouse button click or a space bar or something. The kit is designed to give easy access to the key signals most used in gaming, but I think it allows the full range of keystrokes, and it can also interface as a sensor to an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008GRTSV6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B008GRTSV6&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=5730d79850bd1f40697d88b2d4cd4629\">Arduino<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B008GRTSV6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> or similar, so you can use a banana to control, say, your robot. Or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not used it yet, so this is not a review, just a note that I&#8217;ve got one. Do you have one? This should be fun.<\/p>\n<p>OK, off to get the bananas.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got this Makey Makey kit (which, by the way, is on sale at the link provided, at this moment). A Makey Makey is a device that allows a do-it-yourselfer to create a closed loop electrical signal, that the Makey Makey device converts into a specific serial signal that is sent via USB to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/18\/just-got-makey-makey-in-search-of-a-banana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just got Makey Makey, in search of a banana &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5028],"tags":[1113,1016,1114,1112,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Makey_Makey_Kit_Greg_Ladens_Blog.jpg?fit=439%2C780&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2vW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9670,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions\/9670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}