The Port Moody Public Library has 12 brand new Makey Makey kits available for loan! These kits were made available through a generous grant from the Port Moody Foundation.
Makey Makey is a circuit board that lets you use real life objects, in place of your computer keyboard or mouse, to provide input to your computer. For example, to make a character jump in a game, instead of pressing the “space” key, you can press an apple instead!
A Makey Makey kit is most commonly used with games and animations built with Scratch, a block-based coding language.
You can check out a Makey Makey kit with your library card from our Accounts Desk.
Borrowing guidelines are:
Want a kit but none are available? Place a hold on a Makey Makey kit through the online catalogue.
Please return your Makey Makey kit directly to the Accounts Desk. Do not attempt to return the kit to the book drop.
Check to make sure you have all the parts in the container. The kit should include:
The Library has different resources to help you learn how to code: