With Nintendo Labo a mere few weeks away, we're getting more than a little excited to start seeing the world in cardboard. Enter the latest Toy-Con Garage tutorial from Nintendo, which this week details how you can make a functional guitar out of your Nintendo Switch, some rubber bands and a little cardboard.
Using the frighteningly deep canvas that is Toy-Con Garage - where you can design your own Labo creations from scratch - you can set the pitch and notes of all six strings on the touchscreen and attach the rubber bands around the device to create that tactile feel of strumming. You can even use one of the Joy-Cons to alter the notes, effectively enabling you to create a virtual fretboard. Add a rad cardboard body and neck and you'll be shredding like Kirk Hammett in no time.
Nintendo Labo launches on 20th April in North America and 27th April in Europe.
Let us know what you made of the video above, and whether you'll be picking up Labo when it launches later this month...
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I'm excited. I really like these garage videos. I posted some of my ideas on the forums today.
That is really cool
@Late I really liked your AR ninja shuriken game idea!
I'm not particularly interested in buying Labo myself, but I'm definitely interested in following what everyone else makes with the Toy-Con Garage. I've never been one to fiddle around with map/level editors, but I've loved playing what others have made.
Oh man! The thing at the end is basically a Labo Theremin!!!
Nintendo is recycling all the old iPad gimmicks. They should hired real musicians to perform on their cardboard instruments like this bunch of idiot quartet:
This is looking to be really really exciting for us chiptune musicians! 😊
@GrailUK Thank you. I've already had a fair share of fun just thinking about things you can do with Labo Garage. The ones I posted were just simple ideas that shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to make. I'm still a bit afraid of its limitations since I have some really complex ideas as well.
"It just feels right, man."
OK serious question - will Garage be available w/o the cardboard, maybe as a $30 download? I don't expect it to be available in stores, just digital.
@roboshort Yep, touchscreen cat is out of the bag now.
Embiggen'd
I love nintendo
Quick, we need some band names!!
Labo Man & the Toy-Cons
The Nintendo La-Band
Cardboard Fever
naming things is hard
This is almost reaching LEGO Mindstorms levels of customizability.
I'm sure crafty children and parents with have a lot of fun.
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