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Topic: A very different device that seems to make anything into a controller

This looks like a toy, but I can imagine it being used for serious purposes. A new set of buttons on a keyboard? I'm not sure, really, if it only allows button presses or if it lets the user glide across a surface:


http://makeymakey.com/

Too bad that the user has to attach a wire to his body. And I steadfastly refuse to make trivial, juvenile jokes related to this device. I will not say things like "Bananateq," for example.

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Re: A very different device that seems to make anything into a controller

Well, I used the word "toy," but here is a video of someone who has hooked it up to Logic and an acoustic guitar to create a harp guitar of sorts:


http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=4099.0


The problem is of course the limitation of 6 buttons per unit, from a piano-playing perspective.

Last edited by Jake Johnson (07-04-2013 15:22)