Ever wanted to move Pac-Man using pencil drawings, make music with bananas or type an email with alphabet soup? Now you can thanks to Makey Makey, a simple circuit board that turns almost any object ...

At 10 p.m. on June 29, 1975, Steve Wozniak was ready to test his odd new computer. It didn’t look like much—just a circuit board with 32 chips attached, connected to a video monitor and a keyboard.

The device features an on- and 0ff-events that are translated to keystrokes of a virtual keyboard. A common way of quickly prototyping physical actions is to assign actions to certain key presses on a ...