Week 12

In this week, Im starting to refine the prototype. My goal is to let user pressing on the prototype instead of using the stick to touch two separate wire at once. Here is what i found on the internet.

In this video, she uses copper tape and foil for the columns and rows. Then use clear tape to cover the columns that will cross the rows. That way, the clear tape make that area non-conductive. Because every cross are now non-conductive. For example, the image below shows how to press G & W at the same time.

This is the plan i am going to follow when actually implementing it.

Materials:

1. copper tape
2. foil
3. tape
4. box
5. MakeyMakey

First, i used two shoeboxes and cut out one side and combine them together to make the box bigger.

Then, i place and fix those copper tape and foil in the position i wanted them to be. As you can see i used paper instead of clear tape to separate. However, i didn't have to do the same thing for the copper tape because it is a tape the bottom part have glue on it, which make it non conductive.

After that, i cut out some more foil. 

By doing that, user can touch both of the foil inside the square. Just like user is actually press on the grid.