We love a good DIY project, and MaKey MaKey is a tool that promises to inspire several of them. It's already capable of creating a piano out of bananas, a Pacman controller from a paper drawing, and a keyboard out of alphabet soup. It's essentially a board built on top of arduino—which is already capable of doing many cool things—that connects to your computer via USB and helps you easily create a simple link between hardware and software. It is designed to allow the average person to create some simple things, but because it's based on Arduino it's capable of a whole lot more if you're up to the task. More »