{"id":11174,"date":"2018-01-24T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/video_we_made_our_own_nintendo_labo_toy-con"},"modified":"2018-01-24T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:45:00","slug":"video-we-made-our-own-nintendo-labo-toy-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/24\/video-we-made-our-own-nintendo-labo-toy-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: We Made Our Own Nintendo Labo Toy-Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>One of the criticisms we&#8217;ve seen time and time again surrounding the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nintendo_labo_toy-con_01_-_variety_kit\">Nintendo Labo<\/a><\/strong> construction toys is that you could easily just recreate it yourself for mere pennies and a spare half an hour. Well, we thought it would be interesting to see if we really\u00a0<em>coul<\/em><em>d<\/em> do as so many claim they can, so we set aside a morning to recreate Nintendo&#8217;s design, and we actually came up with something that looks pretty close to the original Rc car\/bug\/thing.<\/p>\n<p>We took some liberties with the design due to our limited tools and because we didn&#8217;t have a full understanding of the design&#8217;s intricacies, but even so we were fairly pleased with how accurately we managed to reproduce what Nintendo designed. Unfortunately we were limited to only being able to vibrate the Joy-Con in the controller menu that allows you to vibrate a controller in order to find it should you have misplaced it on a hard surface.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/video_we_made_our_own_nintendo_labo_toy-con\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/video_we_made_our_own_nintendo_labo_toy-con\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"homemadelabo.gf\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We had to use two Switch consoles for this though as this menu only allows you to control one controller at a time, and we weren&#8217;t going to get very far without simultaneous vibration. And wowsers trousers, as the video and gif above show, it actually works! True we had to put it on a very uniform and sloped surface to get it to move, but even so, we were marginally chuffed.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t move anywhere near as freely or smoothly as the official product however, and this can partly be put down to the limited control over the controllers&#8217; vibration, but also simply due to our own knockoff design. What this has shown us more than anything is just how well-designed Nintendo Labo actually is, and that &#8216;just making your own&#8217; is not going to prove a viable option. Having said that it will be interesting to see how well it works with the actual game this cardboard cutout is made for once it&#8217;s released.<\/p>\n<p>Has this affected your view of Nintendo Labo at all? Let us know down there in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] One of the criticisms we&#8217;ve seen time and time again surrounding the Nintendo Labo construction toys is that you could easily just recreate it yourself for mere pennies and a spare half an hour. Well, we thought it would be interesting to see if we really\u00a0could do as so many claim they can, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}