<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">That's cool.<br><br>A nice application for this would be for kids who have dyslexia-type problems with learning spelling: these kids often benefit from a tactile component to learning spelling (any multi-sensory approach helps). My friends' kid would arrange magnetic letters on the fridge, trace them with his finger, first with eyes closed, then with eyes open, then have a go at writing the word on paper. Providing a kid an arrangement of 26 touchable letters (and something for accents, if they're doing french), coupled with a screen to see their output, as well as audio output to read them a word, would create a great tool for learning... It could be "game-ified" to make it more fun. The letters could be arranged keyboard-style to lead into learning typing.<br><br>From what I gather, you'd have to use 2 MaKeys running 18 letters each, to
get a full alphabet, accents, etc...<br><br>thanks for forwarding that Richard,<br>Eric<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@tricolour.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "lab@artengine" <lab@artengine.ca> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, June 15, 2013 10:52:08 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Lab] MaKeyMaKey<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Here's something that opens up some ideas for inventors and kids:<br><br><a href="http://www.makeymakey.com/" target="_blank">http://www.makeymakey.com/</a><br><br>Basically, a USB device that
lets you break out the connections to whatever interface you can imagine to invent.<br><br>It is arduino-compatible from what I understand.<br><br><br> slainte mhath, RGB<br><br>--<br>Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net><br><www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike!<br>Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\%<br>Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Lab mailing list<br>1. subscribe <a href="http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab" target="_blank">http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab</a><br>2. then email <a
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