Today, I sort of tinkered with MakeyMakey with my group. I have seen this on the internet before, I thought it was little cool but never attracted me enough for me to become excited and make me want to try using it.
However, I got to use it today anyways.
On Monday, our group was discussing what we should do today, and nothing really came up for us to start immediately today. So, we had to decide what to do today before we could begin. We first tried to play tetris with a play-dough controller to fully understand MakeyMakey, it was alright until then. But then, afterwards, we didn’t know what to do. Jilean(i don’t know how to spell her name, and I only know her name and anthony’s because they were mentioned by professor Kaufman) seemed to be frustrated with this whole process, I wasn’t really interested with buttons, the girl left of me wanted to motivate us, the girl right of me just sat there the whole time.
We eventually had to make progress, so I thought we could make a piano with MakeyMakey but, the program, Alduino? required me to fully understand C++ i think, and even if i did, it seemed like it would take me forever to figure out which classes i gotta remodel to rebind all the keys. Then, Professor Kaufman gave us a suggestion that we should play a game and start from there, so the girl left of me(sorry for not knowing names, I am horrible with names) suggested something about bubbleshooter. As I was looking at the back of MakeyMakey, I realized that we could also bind the mouse movements, so we quickly made a controller and bound those keys with MakeyMakey, and i later improved the controller so that the ground is in the back of the controller so that one person can hold on to the controller and control it easily by his/her own.
bubble shooter – http://bubbleshooter.net/
This process was sort of like my writing because i don’t create an outline before I write.
When I write, I pick a topic, and I just start writing. If I don’t really know what I am really writing about, that paper would be all over the place, but if not, it wouldn’t. I have tendency of going back and fixing stuff so the paper would not make sense from the beginning to the end, and not be consistent.
I felt accomplished to be in the only group that used the mouse 😀
-Jason Cho
