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Below is Tracy’s project for the Makey Makey Contest. This thread will be used to develop this project during the Makey Makey course Dec 3- Jan 26 2021.
Please feel free to reply to this thread to post progress, to ask questions, or to add input, ideas or suggestions!

[@zhangcu2]

Thanks, Zee. I am hoping to use Makey-Makey to help two students in blind: one gifted in music, another one with limited verbal communication.
1. A basic communication device:
The device would play sounds when you touch is the building block.
• An example in the market: Using jewelry works as a basic communication device. There are rings that use wifi to track steps and things. The ring is central. The phrases could be set initially but would be good if a parent or therapist could change them to meet the specific needs of a student or child.
• It could start very small then build into a much more intricate AAC (Augmentative and alternative communication) device for the nonverbal population someday. Maybe someday they will not need to carry a large AAC device everywhere with them.

2. A device would help kids blind and with autism interact with people more.
An example in the market: MIDI controller TouchMe: https://shop.playtronica.com/touchme

3. A device connecting sounds to come from Alexa or even to a phone through an app or connect to wifi for sending messages from kids otherwise not being able to.

[@zhangcu2]

I am excited to learn at tomorrow’s workshop, hope to get some ideas how to help these two students. Thanks.

[@gravescolleen]

ket: Using jewelry works as a basic communication device. There are rings that use wifi to track steps and things. The ring is central. The phrases could be set initially but would be good if a parent or therapist could change them to meet the specific needs of a student or child.

Hi Tracy! Did you know that Playtronica was inspired by Makey Makey! I think you could use Makey Makey as a way to encourage blind or autistic children to interact with people! You can use an application on your laptop called SoundPlant to map keys to specific sound effects! Here is a guide I wrote for mapping sound effects to water: https://makeymakey.com/blogs/how-to-instructions/musical-water-with-soundplant

[@gravescolleen]

I was really inspired by the Vest Buddy kids! Look at how they made a friend a talking device : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KJRZuQYxqo&feature=youtu.be

[@zhangcu2]

Thanks, Colleen. I will dig into those resources.

[@zhangcu2]

Holiday greeting!
Is it possible to do math like addition, subtraction …for blind using Makey and Makey with Scratch? Thanks.

[@zeek]

@gravescolleen @MMC_Jake any ideas?

[@zhangcu2]

Project update: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aW6BknZvJZkrBUNmLb6RhwMquxarRQRR/view?usp=sharing


@gravescolleen, thank you for all the videos, they are very helpful.

[@zhangcu2]

@ZKv, thanks. @gravescolleen @MMC_Jake. I tried to work on math addition questions. I have a few questions:

1. It seems there are not enough keys (only 12 keys in Makey Makey) to get all the numbers 0-9 and also press keys.
2. Is there any possibility for voice recognition in Scratch?

Here is a very short of video with a math addition: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YV4-1lFIJ6Z-k048CSq6zU0XqAggWC-1/view?usp=sharing

Anyway, would you check if I am on the right track? Thanks.

Happy a wonderful 2021 ahead!

[@gravescolleen]

You can remap both headers on the back to get more inputs. You can even remap inputs and make them into numbers! https://makeymakey.com/blogs/how-to-instructions/back-of-the-board-tutorial

Here is a remap guide: https://makeymakey.com/blogs/how-to-instructions/remap

I once made a giant calculator you can step on. I’ve been meaning to make a smaller paper version.

Cardboard @makeymakey hopscotch calculator in action! Coded in @scratch ! #makered pic.twitter.com/qQwQ2VMhXW

— Colleen Graves (@gravescolleen) October 11, 2019

[@gravescolleen]

Oh! And you can see some cool math ideas students made last year for kindergarteners! https://makeymakey.com/blogs/how-to-instructions/maker-class-eight-math-literacy-game-design-thinking-challenge

[@zeek]

@brentcourson could you or one of your May We Help friends help create Tracey a custom case for the makey makey/a tablet to go inside? [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aW6BknZvJZkrBUNmLb6RhwMquxarRQRR/view?usp=sharing ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aW6BknZvJZkrBUNmLb6RhwMquxarRQRR/view?usp=sharing)

[@brentcourson]

@ZKv we can help with the case. We would just need @zhangcu2 to fill out the request form on the May We Help Website https://maywehelp.org/request-a-solution/ Once the form is submitted, it will be sent to our team in Ann Arbor.

Is there a general design you have in mind?

[@zhangcu2]

Thank you so much! Will do.

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