Husband builds ‘accessible’ Nintendo Change battle station for spouse with aggressive MS / Boing Boing


All for the love of Animal Crossing within the coronavirus pandemic.


“My (comparatively) younger spouse is in a nursing dwelling with very aggressive [multiple sclerosis], writes her husband, IMGURian @KWIP.

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“She LOVED the earlier Animal Crossing games, but it surely broke her coronary heart she was now not capable of work the controls of a gaming system due to her MS.”

So he constructed an accessible rig for her to make use of within the nursing dwelling.

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All of the feels.

The setup was impressed by “My Mate Vince’s” publish on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZsaFPN0IrA. Powered by a Nintendo Change, utilizing an Xbox Adaptive Controller and the MAGIC-NS Controller Adapter for Nintendo Change to permit the Controller to speak with the Change. My (comparatively) younger spouse is in a nursing dwelling with very aggressive MS. She LOVED the earlier Animal Crossing video games, but it surely broke her coronary heart she was now not capable of work the controls of a gaming system due to her MS. On high of that, the nursing dwelling has been on lockdown for a number of weeks now, so we’ve not been capable of see one another (aside from each night time on video chat, thank Gord!) and he or she’s been bored out of her thoughts.

So I constructed this method to permit her (and different residents of the nursing dwelling – supplied she shares!) to have the ability to have one thing to do. The entire thing is positioned on a wheeled, height-adjustable desk that may be moved into her room or any obtainable space and adjusted to suit the wheelchair top of whoever is utilizing it. It has headphones to maintain the disturbance down (in all probability not sufficient to cease my spouse from yelling obscenities/speaking trash, although).

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I might have constructed your entire factor less expensive – as pictured, it is about $1k (sure, I do know – however what else am I going to spend that candy covid19 bonus examine on?). I used to be in a rush to get it completed by my spouse’s upcoming birthday. Not solely did I’ve to construct/configure every little thing, however arranging to drop it off on the extraordinarily locked-down nursing dwelling was a monumental job itself. Fortunately the employees there are superior and have been prepared to work very onerous to make it occur!

And sure, I notice the monitor is off-centered and it bothers me, too. It has since been adjusted so that every one issues are in stability…

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Extra beneath.

A handicapped-accessible Nintendo Switch battle station for my wife

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