Friday 7 September 2012

MakeyMakey eyeball interface controlled by cardboard and a coin

Well, I have to say that the MakeyMakey is pretty f. awesome and the whole idea of crowdsourcing a product via Kickstarter is really quite superb.
And so, let's build something...

Here is a nice physical cardboard eyeball (about 8cm x 3cm)
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The eye was knocked up in about 40 minutes from card, paper, pencil, Promarker felt tip pens, glue and a two pence coin...
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Here is that very coin - glued aback a cardboard ring, which is the iris.
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On the left is the completed layered eyeball. At the bottom, you can see a crocodile clip...
On the right is the cardboard eyeball, connected to the MakeyMakey, connected to the PC which is running the virtual Twitr_janus_eyeballs Processing sketch running on openprocessing.org
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Below on the left is the easy-peasy MakeyMakey crocodile clip connectors (I love crocodile clips)
Right - twitr_janus eyeballs
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Or you can just watch a fairly short demo video...
This took about 90 minutes to set up from nothing to working. SWEET!!

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