As I discovered when reviewing the Minty Geek Electronics Lab a while back, experimenting with circuit building can be a great deal of fun. There was one particular project in this kit that made use ...

To Jay Silver, a banana isn’t just a banana. It’s a piano key or selfie-stick button, or control pad for a video game. Really, in Silver’s world you can turn anything into almost anything, so long as ...

When it launched in 2012, the Makey Makey was the golden child of the maker movement. It was a simple, easy to use board with holes for alligator clips and a USB socket that would present capacitive ...

Mainstream computer interfaces are tough to get right, because they have to be everything to everyone–which is impossible. Even something as “no duh” as a touch screen is going to make someone, ...

Makey Makey Go is a super-cheap invention kit. For $19, you get a USB stick and an alligator clip; use the two in tandem and you can turn (almost) anything into a keyboard or mouse button. Examples of ...

Meet your new touchpad: a banana. Makey Makey, the world’s first invention kit, can turn everyday objects — including bananas — into touchpads by simply using alligator clips and circuit board. The ...

A pair of graduate students from MIT Media Lab have taken to Kickstarter to fund a project designed to turn anyone into an inventor. The MaKey MaKey invention kit allows an individual to turn just ...

This article was taken from the November 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...

Why bother with trackpads and keyboards when you could control your PC with fruit and Play-Doh instead? That’s the central question behind Makey Makey Go, a $19 Kickstarter project that turns everyday ...