Uncomplicated homemade Author of Instrictables under the nickname Dissension does not just distribute employee business cards among visitors to the office. If one of them not only takes a business card, but also presses the A or B button on the joystick, he will hear, respectively, the sound of adding life or the sound of receiving a coin from the Mario game.
The master joystick becomes the original joystick from the NES console. Of non-original controllers, it is better to take one so that the case of it is also rectangular, as, for example, of Dendy Junior. It is clear that the remake, and not that vintage, from the nineties - it is a pity for him. The source of the sound is the keychain with samples from the Mario game, purchased in the now closed ThinkGeek online store. If this cannot be found, the Echo Keyller keychain produced so far will do. The sounds in it are different, but no less nostalgic.
The wizard opens the cases of both devices, and cuts out a slot in the joystick housing to accommodate business cards:
Glues unused joystick pushers, battery compartment and dynamic key fob:
It places the keyfob board so that the pushers A and B press the buttons, when the contacts are closed, the keyfob emits sounds:
Echo Keyller doesn’t work with the board from the key fob; eight buttons are too tight there. Another way will do. Do not stick pushers. Leave the joystick board in place. Cut the printed conductors on it, going from the contact pads of buttons A and B to the microcircuit. Connect them with thin wires to the same areas of the desired key fob buttons.
And now - the stand. As such, the master applies an ordinary door hinge:
On this manufacture do it yourself unusual business card holder can be considered complete. Something similar can be made of many pseudo-vintage items - violating outEntality, as video blogger Kokovin says, it’s a pity to really vintage things.