Interactive Art With Bare Conductive and a Makey Makey

Use a thrift shop painting to make art come alive. Parts: Bare Conductive Ink Makey Makey Different Sized Jumpers Thrift Shop Painting (or other art) Tools: Laptop Soundplant Software Tape

Find a painting or piece of art work that you want come alive. Check the thrift shop or your attic.

Use jumpers to poke through the painting on the spots that you want to make interactive.

Dab spots of conductive ink over the jumpers on the front side of the painting. These will become the contact spots.

On the backside of the painting attach the jumpers to " wasdfg" of the Makey Makey. Let the ink dry for 30 min.

Using a USB cable, plug the Makey Makey in and connect it to your laptop.

Use another wire to connect to the ground (or earth) on the Makey Makey

Test your work by holding the ground wire and touch the painted dots to see if all of your connections are working.

Find several short .wav sound files that you want to use. You can create your own or use sites like www.wavsource.com

Download Soundplant 39 from www.soundplant.org Assign .wav files to the wasdfg keys on the keyboard.

Holding the ground wire, touch each of the painted spots to hear the sounds that you assigned. Have your friends try it too.