Since our introduction to the maker movement and our maker projects I have had a chance to practically test some of my initial ideas. As a part of our participation in the MAET overseas news program we year ones created a musical segment employing the Makey Makey. I spent some quality time with the wondrous device and found a simple way to control an electronic instrument in garage band. Keyboard commands control certain pitches in garage band. I simply had to connect Makey Makey to the corresponding keyboard commands. I was also able to create a banna keyboard and play live to a canned drum track. We put together a show and it turned out like this.
Obviously the Makey Makey’s ability to control a synthesizer is not limited to bannas. I visited a few vintage stores but did not find anything I didn’t already have at home. So I decided to start there. Here are some conductive materials I’ve brainstormed that can be converted into some kind of music instrument interface.
These are just a few of the materials I have come up with and as I was inserting them here I was thinking of more. It seems to me that the options for creating a musical interface are limitless. Now I have to find out the best way to get these objects to interface with the Makey Makey and find software that will allow me more flexibility than Garage Band. I used http://www.fotor.com to create the above collage.
Teacher Tom Spackman 
