When Jay Silver thinks of people with radical ideas, he thinks of his late father starting a food co-op in South Florida in the 1970s. People thought his father, Joel, was crazy for gathering a group ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. TJ McCue is Seattle-based and covers tech & productivity tools. Jun 20, 2012, 05:09am EDT This article is more than 10 years old.

If someone were to tell me that I could make a piano out of bananas, I’d probably say to them “you’re nuts!” But after I checked out a Kickstarter project called MaKey MaKey I now know that it’s a ...

BALTIMORE, Jan. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Makey Makey, which produces invention kits, has partnered with project-based learning leader Workbench to launch Makey Makey Labz, an online ...

Learn coding and circuitry basics as you incorporate sound effects into a story book. Design a soundscape for your story, record your sounds, and use copper tape, Makey Makey and Scratch to help your ...

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 ...

If you’ve read any issues of Make: Magazine in the last few years, you’ve probably seen reference to MaKey MaKey, a simple prototyping board for thinking-out-of-the-box inventions. While the banana ...

BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkFun Electronics (www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is now shipping the MaKey MaKey, a new ...

At GeekDad we have been big fans (and I'm pretty sure most contributors have been big backers) of the Makey Makey Kickstarter project. The team has done really well over at Kickstarter, but the catch ...

Two MIT Media Lab students created "an invention kit for the 21st century" and recently attempted to raise $25,000 via Kickstarter. The project instead raised more than half a million dollars, piquing ...