Makey Makey and Micro:bit Power Glove

Grab your Inventor Booster Kit or conductive tape, rifle through your winter clothes to find a mismatched glove and give it a new purpose! Let's prepare your microcontrollers!

• Makey Makey
• micro:bit
• Scratch Account
• Inventor Booster Kit
• Lost and Found Glove

Prepare micro:bit to use with Scratch

• Connect micro:bit to Scratch (Follow directions here)
• Download Scratch Link
• Download Scratch micro:bit Hex File to your micro:bit
• Add Makey Makey and micro:bit extensions to your new Scratch project.

Make sure micro:bit is unplugged from the battery. Using some regular thread, baste (which means loosely stitch) micro:bit to the glove. You can use the holes along the edge connector to sew through your micro:bit and stitch across the controller to hold it onto the glove. When you are done, tie a knot and cut the thread.

Now that micro:bit is securely fastened to the glove, plug in the battery and tuck the battery pack into your glove. Create your code on Scratch and test your glove!

Try a quick code to make sure it is connecting well with Scratch.

To connect your Makey Makey, use conductive fabric tape to create an EARTH strip along the base of the glove. Then place a separate piece of conductive tape on each finger tip. At the knuckle side of the glove, you can fold the tape onto itself to create a clippable spot for each alligator clip.

Connect an alligator clip to each knuckle! We used a rubber band to keep all of the alligator clips in place. Clip EARTH to the strip on the heal of the glove.

Now that you are all wired up, code your glove and have fun!

Our Scratch code changes the background to a random when you tilt the micro:bit AND press the down arrow.

This is a riff of the Scratch Theramin code from this micro:bit tutorial.

See our full Scratch Code here.