We might have taken the wrong subject at university. When we had to do projects, it was all "write this essay" and "compare and contrast thing A with thing B". It turns out that we could have been doing way more exciting things with all the paper we wasted on boring, 2000-word assignments on whatever it was we were studying - we could have been making Nintendo Switches instead.
(Well, not really. None of us were at uni when the Switch came out. But a paper GameCube would have been just as cool.)
Reddit user PandaWalkWithMe shared an image of their girlfriend's latest university project: A Nintendo Switch made entirely out of paper, which would be impressive enough without also having detachable Joy-Cons and a Docking Station.
It turns out that the girlfriend (who is unnamed) is studying Product Design, a course in which students are often tasked with making paper and foam prototypes to test out their designs quickly and cheaply.
Unfortunately, it doesn't play any games, because scientists have not yet figured out how to make paper capable of transmitting electricity or light. Apparently they're too busy putting robots on Mars.
Did any of you lot study product design (or something similar) at university? What's the coolest thing you ever built? Let us know in the comments.
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Comments (30)
Now prepare for Nintendo to take this down
Woah that's epic detachable joycons too
Wow that’s insanely impressive. All I managed for my art project was a dress made out of chicken wire, papier-mâché and cardboard that may or may not have given my poor model tetanus. This doesn’t look like it would give you tetanus therefore it’s a good job.
Wow! The joy cons even have drift
Now that is cool
No drifting now that's amazing. Also will it be painted?
Always love seeing things like this. In the early days I acutely made a Switch out of cardboard before it came out., I just used size charts from the internet. Good fun!
I remember doing something similar in my 9th grade art class a few years ago. It wasn't as well made and I didn't have enough time to make a dock but it did have detachable Joy-Con. I made it with foam board, printed paper (for the screen, backside and Joy-Con rails), and colored tissue paper for the Joy-Con.
It's Labo Nintendo Switch
@nessisonett you crafted a dress a la Animal Crossing: New Horizons xD
Ok, it's neat, it's like a paper mache mold. It's detailed. But it's nothing extremely inventive. When you said, all it plays is "Paper Mario", I thought for a moment it literally played that game and they chose it for the reason that the system is made of paper. If all the electronics were inserted and this paper replaced the plastic, I would say, bravo. But as it is, it's just a mold.
I hear the DIY Recipe Card for this says it calls for wood... I guess to melt it down to make the pulp, and then the paper. Ah well... I also hear it calls for 6 pieces of wood. xD
Does the paper dpad work better than the pro controller?
And it plays Doom
That's kinda nice
Now I want some white Joy-Cons...
Imagine the papercuts
Only Paper Mario? Not even Paper Wars or SnipperClips? Oh, the bitter irony. And there goes my brief hope for an overdue Papers, Please port, too.
Doom will run on this.
NINJA APPROVED
Sheet, that's cool.
Watch it have a meltdown running BOTW.
It plays your imagination...! 🌈😂
(Go inside empty card box and magically the SFX comes out from the paper Switch)
Wow, that must have taken a hell of a long time to make. Bravo!
@TheSwitcher Doom runs on a potato.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣paper Mario. Get it??🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
thats so cool. reminds me of when i made a 3ds out of folders back before it released, i gave it a movable circle pad too haha
Cool but doesn't play any games.
4/10
@anoyonmus LMAO
@1ofUs sure
A paper Mario only console? That sounds okay to me.
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