Hi everyone,
I am new to the forum, new to Makey Makey as I just got mine yesterday and new to Arduino as I've never owned or programmed one before last night.
I ordered a ESD bracelet but as it hasn't arrived yet, I thought I would give a try to this nice capacitive sensing trick. As it wouldn't work with http://www.freeinvaders.org/ I modified it to map the original keys in a way that it would work.
Here is the code: * makeymakey_capacitive.zip
Then I found out the it wasn't quite behaving like the original firmware and would become unresponsive at times, so I modified the original firmware to include the capacitive sensing trick.
Here is the code: * makey_makey_1_4_1.zip
I found that code to work well except that it is maybe a bit slow, but I don't know how to fix it. Maybe some expert can help out. In any case it allows pressing "keys" continuously!
I found that it is pretty awesome what one can do so quickly with this platform, even as a newcomer!
I will post my projects when I have something