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hey it stomachs on the verge I got to try out Nintendo labo today a DIY cardboard cake made specially for Nintendo switch I got to try out a variety of minigames like fishing playing with the keyboard and something around as a giant robot since that's all made of cardboard it seems really simple but there's actually a lot of really interesting text behind it all but before we get into all that we have to start by actually building four projects oh wait I would say this sheet of cardboard is actually a a little bit thicker than your regular like cereal box cardboard definitely not as thick as Amazon packaging cardboard but I'm being as gentle and delicate as I can a little bit like doing origami but the the cardboard is a lot stiffer than regular paper you're just making me realize just how it's like spatially challenged I am oh I think we messed up but it's okay because you can go forwards and backwards on the app and it tells you just exactly where you screwed up you never used the IKEA AR app it's really helpful to see things in 3d instead of like a flat 2d space so we're 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 does the same thing for the blue controller if you want to 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 even make it look at me 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 the 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 it was 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 lava gets really interesting by arranging them in a certain way you're basically creating a code for the camera to receive sure you expect a normal tilt based controller like this motorcycle where you turn the controller to drive an engine or the robot visor we're 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 south so the robot can't all these strings are attached to weights that pull the IR stickers up and down when you throw punch the controller in the back can see the stickers move which controls the robot so the IR camera and the controller really wasn't utilized that much before the lavvo basically it can detect an object in the 3d space so it's really only used for a handful of games like the eating contest game on once you 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 dubious 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 lets do reprogram the toy cons you have and remix their features and map different buttons to different actions like for example if you press the button on the blue controller it can make the right controller vibrate so right now there's two different kits you can buy there's a robot kit which is $79 lets you stuff around as a giant robot and there's also the variety kit which is $69 seems like about our value because there's five troy 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 can't you decide to go with I think you're gonna love it all I mean for the first year of the swish it's already doing super amazing developers are flocking to the console so I'm really looking forward to seeing what other things are gonna add to it you can tell air had to move directions walk up to a building I'm just smash the hell out of it