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Jay Silver demonstrates how a cat’s water bowl can be rigged to take photos. Photo: Ryan Lash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

MaKey MaKey — the kit that encourages you to rig a banana piano or control a video game with pencil-etchings — was one of the most successful projects on Kickstarter in 2012. The project raised 2, 272% of its goal in 30 days, bringing in a cool half million from excited makers.<\/p>\n

\"JayJay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!<\/span><\/a>Today\u2019s TED Talk<\/a> comes from the co-creator of the MaKey MaKey<\/a>, Jay Silver. In this madcap romp, he reveals his first invention — a pasta spinner rigged from a fork and drill — and how it led him to a fascination with the way that things are made. Throughout the talk<\/a>, given during our in-office salon TED@250<\/a>, he shows some incredible projects, both his own and those of others, like a paint brush that makes anything it touches play electronic music and a cat\u2019s water bowl that lets the feline snap photos of itself as it drinks.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes what we know gets in the way of what could be, especially when it comes to the human-made world. We think we already know how something works, so we can\u2019t imagine how it could work,\u201d says Silver. \u201cI don\u2019t care that pencils are supposed to be used for writing. I\u2019m going to use them a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the talk, Silver also introduces us to the MaKey MaKey, using it in a demo at 7:50 to turn two slices of pizza into a slide clicker. But to him, of course, the fun part isn\u2019t just his own creating his own projects \u2013 it\u2019s releasing the kit out into the wild and seeing what people came up with on their own.<\/p>\n

Here, a collection of really cool things made with MaKey MaKey.<\/p>\n