Random: Someone Has Made A Fully Working Pinball Machine For Switch Out Of Cardboard

Ya, this looks cool. I bet Nintendo are rubbing their hands together as we speak. Be it a stand alone arcade cabinet or a new Labo idea. Fair play to the guy, he showed great ingenuity.

Nintendo Pinball !

"using pretty much only an Amazon Prime cardboard box "
Plus the controller, and the buttons, and some wires, and a weight.
I'd imagine the $26 is based on already owning half the things are tools as well.

It's cool though. Would like to see a proper Labo style one using the reflective tape

Amazon Life 😆

The third Labo set has been leaked before the first two!

@NintendoFan4Lyf Who has time for games? This is not a complicated project at all. Great for a couple weekends.

Love how there is a bottle of wine holding the top of the screen

So, the dock... the dock makes creating custom hardware to use Switch games a really appealing thing. Just set your Switch in an arcade box or a table top contraption or even a cocktail table style two-player machine and it comes to life, ready to play.

The solution with soldering these controls right to a cheap controller is so, so simple. Those are easy solders as far as I can tell.

For very little money you could make a little arcade with a pinball machine, an arcade cabinet for fighting games, and a 4 player gauntlet style setup and just drop your Switch into whatever one you want to play.

Hmm...

Oh! And it looks like Switch docks are down to $60 a piece, @rjejr! When did that happen?

The monitor is sort of overlooked in the pricing, however, and my little mini arcade dream would mean 3 monitors... oh, and I'd also need a Mario Kart 4 player machine... 4 joy-con halves mounted on an axel each? This is getting expensive...

What's with the horizontal bottle of wine?

Labo is going to inspire some of the craziest and coolest mods for years to come. People will be posting and sharing these in large numbers. It's an unbelievably genius way to ensure people are talking about the Switch.

I'm surprised third-party pinball controllers aren't a thing.

Now, this, @rjejr , this is an acceptable price for a cardboard toy...

Of course I'd like to upgrade this toy to some proper Sanwa buttons and see what kind of mileage we could get out of it.....

@aaronsullivan "Switch docks are down to $60"

That is news to me, thanks for the tip. $60 seems more like the price it should have always been. Well $49.99 I think looks better, but $60 is certainly much closer, and $89.99 was always, always, too close to $100 for a $30 charger and a $15 hollow piece of plastic.

Makes me think the plan is for Nintendo Switch: Portable Labo Edition (no dock) to be $249, which would have looked mighty expensive if they took out the $90 dock, but taking out the $60 dock, well then $249 looks about right as it still needs the $30 charger. (And yes, I'm still on about the dockless bundle, makes sense for STEM oriented Labo minded parents.)

I saw a TV commercial for KiwiCo the other day, one of those "STEM in mail" monthly subscription services that charge $19.95 per month for a box of cardboard in the mail. People complaining about Labo prices - that would be you @NEStalgia - haven't spent a lot of money on kids STEM toys. Kiwico seems to be down, and they haven't updated their Twitter since November, but lots of others out there.

https://www.momtrends.com/mom-trends/stem-subscription-boxes

https://www.alextran.org/kiwico-crate-reviews/

Best thing about this ad NES, all the kids PLAYING WITH THEIR CARDBOARD OUTSIDE

@NEStalgia Remember that discussion we had awhile back about how kids don't care about keeping anything these days, no nostalgia in them, just disposability? Well how about an $1,800 monthly car subscription service, Book by Cadillac? Or $2k for Porsche.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40538266/your-next-car-might-be-a-subscription

Those crazy millennials.

This would actually be great for Labo.

@rjejr Just because tons of upper-middle-class-SUV-loving gentry spend too much for cardboard to please Little Timmy so he doesn't throw a tantrum and throw cereal all over the Television Room and create SUCH a mess for the housekeeper again doesn't mean it's not overpriced

$1800 subscription for a Caddy? Didn't they used to call them loan payments and they were over in 3 years? Still, that's not millennials....that's silver spoon rich kids buying it on Daddy's money. Pony up....$80 cardboard won't keep Rjejr Jr. happy forever.........

@SanderEvers

Nintendo should ABSOLUTELY create something like this, and a LABO arcade stick. I'd buy one of each.

@NEStalgia I told my kids they have to build their first car out of the leftover scraps of cardboard from their Labo builds so I'm good. 😉

Though once my kids get licenses and my auto insurance goes through the roof we may find it cheaper to just use Uber instead. How long until those self driving cars get here?

@aaronsullivan (Re: dock prices) Even better, the Best Buy dock and a few others are only $30-$40 and are better designed for permanent installation into a machine. imo.

@Ogbert (price) Correct, it was $11 for the button set and about $15 for the controller that I gutted. I had an extra monitor, but even so, this is more about the controller than the machine. I'm hoping the machine will come out to be under $80 in purchased supplies when it's all done.

Nice! Shouldn't be much harder to make a good cardboard SHMUP setup, eh? Playing Gunbird or Strikers 1945 would be awesome like this!

@Stemage Awesome! I utterly love it

Hellz yea, one cardboard box for pinball and one for vertical shumps If I had a hdmi monitor that I wasn't using every day I would've tried this same setup myself, but then with some cheap plywood I think.

@Stemage mate awesome! What a sweet idea this may b the affordable pinball cabinet for me! Can't wait to see the updated non-cardboard edition.

A Labo Pinball table peripheral could be brilliant. Especially if Nintendo then shared the code with Pinball FX3 to allow for it to work with all of their tables.

That's great.

We did "Card Board Jam" in in Aalborg a few years back where people built their own cabinets in a similar fashion, just for their own games.
It was all very silly and very fun.

Wow. That’s cool. Iwas going to build a Virtual Pinball table as my next project, but this is so much easier. Thanks for posting the video!

@NEStalgia Kiwico site is working again.

Everything about the picture at the top of the page - the orange box, the kid playing with cardboard on the floor, the font they used for laboratory - looks like a Labo ad to me. It's like Nvidia Shield all over again.

https://www.kiwico.com/tinker

This vid of the guy who looks like he's from Ntinedo Minute talking about a kid building a cardboard trebuchet outside could also pass for a Labo ad.

@Stemage Definitely, as long as they work, the cheaper the better for this sort of thing. I may have a Summer project... thanks for trying this. Will enjoying seeing how it turns out.

This looks amazing, I love custom controllers! And haha, Nintendo should totally release a "Controller Kit" for Labo at some point. Makes that thing worthwhile for at least something.