I built a giant (working) Nintendo Switch for Saint Jude’s Children Hospital

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Whole_Put7272 on April 3rd, 2021 at 18:43 UTC »

I feel like it's pretty heavy

FrankieBigNut on April 3rd, 2021 at 19:03 UTC »

The kids there must be enormous!

icanhazazngrl on April 3rd, 2021 at 19:10 UTC »

This is truly amazing work. Big kudos.

I have dabbled around with switch hacking and there were a couple questions that jumped out at me.

Did you consider building actual bluetooth or USB controllers to interface with the switch, instead of the intermediary solution you chose with the servos physically manipulating a smaller joy-con? Certainly there would be less moving hardware involved in the bluetooth solution. What kinds of pros and cons did you weigh when making your design choices?

I don't mean to criticize. This is truly incredible work.