Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Nintendo Labo hands-on: how these cardboard add-ons work”.
( upbeat hip, hop music, ), Hey it Dami from The Verge.. I got to try out Nintendo Labo. Today, a DIY cardboard kit made specially for Nintendo Switch. ( upbeat hip, hop music ). I got to try out a variety of mini games like fishing playing with the keyboard and stomping around as a giant robot.
( upbeat hip, hop music ), Since it’s all made of cardboard it seems really simple, but there’s actually a lot of really interesting tech behind It all., But before we get into all of that, we have to start by actually building the projects.. Oh wait. I have it. I’M sorry. ( upbeat hip, hop music ). I would say this sheet of cardboard is actually a little bit thicker than your regular.
Like cereal box cardboard, it’s definitely not as thick as Amazon packaging cardboard, but I’m being as gentle and delicate as I can with it., It’s a little bit like doing origami. But the cardboard is a lot stiffer than regular paper.. ( upbeat hip hop music ). This is making me realize just how like spatially challenged, I am., Oh, I think we messed up, but it’s okay. If you mess up, because you can go forwards and backwards on the app – and it tells you just exactly where you screwed up., If you’ve ever used the Ikea AR app, it’s really helpful to see things in 3D instead of like a flat 2D space.. So we just finished building the RC car and each kit actually comes with two of them.
One is blank, so you can customize it. However, you want., You can control it with the Switch here. Pressing. The right red controller will make it vibrate and move.. It does the same thing for the blue controller.. If you wan na make it go one direction, you can press both of them at the same time., So this part is really interesting.. There’S actually a camera in one of the controllers here and you can see through the camera on the app.. It almost kind of looks like night vision.
Here. Can even make it look at me there I am. And another super cool thing is: if you just tap it one more time, it turns into a heat-sensing camera., And actually, if you put it on auto-mode, it can follow you around.
According to the source of heat here., If I put my hand in front of it, it follows the source of heat.. This is actually the IR camera on the controller and beyond seeing your own body heat. It works with these little reflective IR stickers that pick up on the camera really easily.
And here’s where the Labo gets really interesting. By arranging them in a certain way, you’re, basically creating a code for the camera to receive. Sure you expect the normal tilt-based controls like This motorcycle, where you turn the controller to drive the engine or the robot visor, where tilting my head controls the direction I walk., But something like the keyboard. Each of the keys have a sticker on the back, which the camera at the end of the piano picks up to see, which note is being played., There’s also IR stickers on the little knobs you can plug in and dial to change.
The pitch of the sounds.. For the robot kit, all these strings are attached to weights that pull the IR stickers up and down. When you throw a punch., The controller in the back can see the stickers move, which controls the robot.. So the IR camera on the controller really wasn’t utilized that much before the Labo..
Basically, it can detect an object in a 3D space, so it’s really only used for a handful of games like the eating contest game on 1-2-Switch.. What’S really cool about, Labo is just how it opens up a world of possibilities like there’s so much potential for 3D printing communities or, like the DIY enthusiasts online, to come together and share what they know. Just really make it their own. And in keeping with this Style Nintendo actually introduced Toy-Con Garage, which, let’s you reprogram, the Toy-Cons. You have and remix their features and map different buttons to different actions.. For example, if you press a button on the blue controller, it can make the red controller vibrate..
So right now there’s two different kits: you can buy. There’s the Robot Kit, which is $ 79. Let’S you stomp around as a giant robot. And there’s also.
The Variety Kit which is $ 69. Seems like a better value because there’s five Toy-Cons you can make and with the Toy-Con Garage you can actually remix and play with it all again.. At the end of the day, Nintendo isn’t just selling a cardboard kit. It’S selling a platform., There’s so much you can do with the technology.
They’Re offering., No matter which kit you decide to go with. I think you’re gon na love it all. – I mean for the first year. The Switch is already doing.
Super amazing developers are flocking to the console., So I’m really looking forward to seeing what other things they’re gon na add to it.. You can tilt your head to move directions, walk up to a building., Big robot steps. And just smash the hell out of it. .