From games like Wii Tennis to accessories like the Wii Balance Board, Nintendo made it possible turn your consoles into fitness devices to help players can active. But hardware hacker Mike Choi can only have find the best way to stay in shape with the switch turning Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in a completebody training.
Among Nintendo fans, Mike Choi is best known for helping to create the FlipGrip: a $ 12 accessory that allows Switch’s Joy-Con controllers to be connected to each side of the console while in portrait mode to improve the gamevertical gaming game experience like pinball Choi is also known for his creative console hacks, but the Labo Fit Adventure Kart it is undoubtedly his most ambitious creation to date.
The hack pairs the Switch console and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with the Ring Fit Adventure training accessory, elements of the Nintendo Labo cardboard kits, a completeon the exercise bike, and a customcomponent designed and developed called TAPBO. An optical sensor on the exercise bike monitors how many times the pedals turn, and that data is used to control the acceleration of the game. If the pedaling speed drops below a certain RPM, the player’s character stops accelerating in the game.
More complicated is how the Ring Fit Adventure accessory is used as a steering wheel and a way to use in-game items like shells and banana peels. The custom TAPBO accessory that Choi created features a set of small servo-controlled robotic arms that actually press physical buttons on a connected Joy-Con controller. The spoon TAPBO and Joy-Con are then attached to the Ring Fit Adventure accessory, which translates movements of change in direction in the game, while the squeeze movements are used to fire items or keep them behind the cart for protection.
Choi spent about six months designing and perfecting the Labo Fit Adventure Kart, which was done without actually modifying or hacking any Nintendo hardware. All of this is possible thanks to the TAPBO accessory that he created, so I hope Nintendo doesn’t make any attempt to remove this video as it did recently done with other hackers sharing your work on YouTube. And as perfect as the setup looks as we move on to another year of being as responsibly at home as possible, Choi currently has no plans to put this prototype hardware into production or sell it to other players.