BBC Coverage this Week
We were on BBC World Service this week, and they covered us in an article yesterday. Here is a snippet from the BBC article:
Around 150 beta-versions of the kit have been made available to test-users and AnnMarie Thomas, based in Minneapolis, was among the first to try it. She says even her four-year-old daughter has managed to connect the kit without any help. "My kids love it. My daughter was able to plug it in and set it up. She has tried tin foil and playdough and has even managed to connect herself to the kit."
Ms Thomas, a former professor of engineering, trains future engineering teachers and thinks the kit has a lot of potential for use in schools. "It is a great way to engage kids with science and technology," she said. "It helped my daughter understand how circuits work and how to ground herself." (Read the Rest of the BBC Article)
AnnMarie, the professor quoted above has a TED talk about squishy circuits. Sometimes we like to think of MaKey MaKey as squishy computation or squishy Human Computer Interaction.
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Creator Robert Nichols on July 13, 2012
I backed this after seeing it on the BBC in the UK :)
Creator Matt Sponholz on June 16, 2012
...And congrats with the BBC!! :D
Creator Matt Sponholz on June 16, 2012
Why those selfish little banana gentlemen!
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Yes we get paid negative $0.30 every time we eat a banana. This deal holds all day long no matter where in the U.S.A. we are.
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or maby chikita
Creator Brian Holme on June 11, 2012
do you guys have some sortive contract with dole?
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Closing in on $500K and 10K users!
Creator VaLiAm on June 9, 2012
Congrats on BBC article! Thanks for the link to AnnMarie's talk on squishy circuits. As a novice in this realm, videos and instructional websites on the basics really help me generate ideas.
Creator Quentin Hoenen on June 9, 2012
cool !