Two completed works?!
First, the kids and I made a "plant propagation station" for Mary's birthday, using scrap wood and some glass test tubes I bought. Right now it's doubling as a vase, which I enjoy.
Second, I built an arcade stick! This, again, is made from scraps, including some random plywood I was lucky enough to pick up from a neighbor. The buttons and joystick are cheap Amazon pickups -- I didn't want to buy real Sanwa parts until I could prove I could do it and it was worth doing. I can always add new hardware later and save these buttons for non-twitch purposes or other projects.
It's definitely not perfect. The button holes ended up spintering the plywood a bit, and I didn't bother to do anything fancy to attach the joystick from the bottom, opting instead for just dealing with a couple screws in the top. But if I wanted perfect I'd never built anything. This was a learning experience, and a proof of concept, and I can use it on Switch!














