FabLearn Cardboard Arcade
Inspired by Caine's Arcade, we (Black Pine Circle School in Berkeley, CA) start off our year of making with our Cardboard Arcade Project.
In today's workshop, participants will build their own Cardboard Arcade game using low-tech tools (cardboard, duct tape, foil) and higher-tech MaKey MaKey boards and Scratch programming to make their games even more interactive. The arcade is then set up for community participation. This project gives participants experience with the basics of fabrication, physical computing, basic programming, collaboration, and iteration. The workshop is based on an activity inspired by Caine’s Arcade and implemented at .
Presentation slides can be found here; related handouts here.
General outline:
Play with MaKey MaKey
Watch the Caine’s Arcade video
Choose/assign groups
Brainstorm & sketch arcade ideas
Who is your audience (“design thinking”)?
Multiple ideas
Peer feedback
Introduce Scratch & MaKey (no formal Scratch lesson)
Build
Share with Community
Reflect
Partial blog posts (still, and always, under construction....ahh, teaching.):
http://blog.mytko.org/2014/03/cardboard-arcade-using-makey-makey.html
http://bpcsteam.blogspot.com/2014/03/cardboard-arcade-using-makey-makey.html