Lifelong Kindergarten :: MIT Media Lab

Hook-Ups

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The Hook-Ups system is a set of technologies and activities that enables young people to create interactive experiences by programming connections between physical and digital media. With the Hook-Ups system, young people integrate sensors with a myriad of materials to create their own tangible interfaces. These interfaces control digital images and sounds based on computer programs the young people write to make projects such as games or responsive art pieces. For example, a 10-year-old created a paper-plate-based flying saucer, added a sensor, then wrote a program to control an animation of a flying saucer on her computer screen.

Amon Millner Mitchel Resnick