IoT Hardware · Student Handout
Build Three Toys with Claude
Make three fun toys by asking an AI called Claude, then play them with a Makey Makey board.
What you need
- A laptop with a web browser.
- A free Claude account: open claude.ai and sign in. Your app appears live in the preview panel (an Artifact).
- Later: a Makey Makey board, alligator clips, and a banana, foil, or playdough.
Three steps
- Open claude.ai and paste a prompt below.
- Play the toy in the preview panel with your keyboard.
- Clip on a banana and make it yours.
Makey Makey key map
| Keyboard key | Touch this |
|---|
| Space | Front: Space pad |
| ↑ ↓ ← → | Front: arrow pads |
| W A S D F G | Back of the board |
Makey Makey pretends to be a keyboard, so touching a banana is the same as pressing a key. Your code does not change at all.
Make it yours
- Ask Claude for your own sounds or colours.
- Turn the catch game into a banana joystick.
- Add a high score, or a two-player mode.
The three prompts to paste
1 · Banana Piano · Easy
Make a fun web-page piano. When I press Space, the arrow keys, or W A S D F G, play a different musical note and flash a big colourful button for that key. Make it work with a normal keyboard.
2 · Memory Game · Medium
Make a memory game like Simon Says. Show four big coloured pads for the Up, Down, Left and Right arrow keys, each with its own sound. Flash a sequence of pads that gets one longer each round, and I repeat it with the arrow keys. Show the round number, and say game over if I press the wrong one. Make it work with a normal keyboard.
3 · Catch & Dodge · Challenge
Make a simple web game. Good fruit and bombs fall from the top. I move a basket with the Left and Right arrow keys to catch the fruit for points but dodge the bombs. Catching a bomb costs a life, and the game speeds up over time. Show the score and lives. Make it work with a normal keyboard.
Safety: only use food, foil, and playdough. Hold the metal Earth bar so the circuit works. Never connect anything to mains electricity.
Bonus to play (not to build today): a full pixel-art
Super Mario level made with Claude's pro tools from a single sentence. It runs on
the same arrows, Space, and Click, so a Makey Makey drives it too —
play it here.