Last Wednesday, during English class, my class and I were one of the few lucky ones to experiment and invent things with Makey Makey – a new, exciting technological invention that helps invent new ways of doing things and performing different functions.
My group members and I started off immediately with our idea of playing different musical instruments and composing a song with the makey makey. However, we spent almost half of the given time working on the initial stages of that idea until we realized that technical problems and time constraints wont allow us to complete it. Nevertheless, we all were thoroughly enjoying with just experimenting with the makey makey.
Later, though, we became a bit dispirited when our subsequent ideas didn’t work out as we expected them to. We were trying to make a game controller with the makey makey on paper, at first, to hook it up and play some game, but that didn’t work. So, we resorted to making game controllers with play and hooking them up with makey makey materials to play a game. We all tried to play the game with the controllers but it was not working consistently, and in the end, that was our final invention which did not turn out so good.
But no matter, we all learned how the creative process parallels to the inventing process in the sense that we keep at it trying out different ideas and working on them despite many failures and let-downs, but in the end, we somehow manage to put together a decent essay or an invention, even if its not perfect.
I’d say maybe if I focused more on enjoying it, stressed less about the time constraint and took a cool-headed approach to it, then I probably would have come up with a great idea. And the same goes for writing an essay as well. If you really put yourself into it, the end result would be a lot better than your expectations.