Ride an exercise bike to win Mario Kart with this Switch Hack

Games like Wii tennis accessories like the Wii Balance Board, Nintendo made it possible transform its consoles into fitness equipment to help players get active. But hacker Mike Choi may have just find the ultimate way to stay fit with the switch by turning Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in a fullbody workout.

Among Nintendo fans, Mike choi is best known for helping to create the FlipGrip: a $ 12 accessory that allows Switch Joy-Con controllers to be attached to each side of the console in portrait mode to enhance the gameplay experience of vertical mode games like pinball machine. Choi is also known for his creative console hacks, but the Labo Fit Adventure Kart is without a doubt his most ambitious creation to date.

The hack combines the Switch console and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with the Ring Fit Adventure training accessory, parts of the Nintendo Labo cardboard kits, aon an exercise bike, and adesigned and manufactured component called TAPBO. An optical sensor on the exercise bike records the number of times the pedals are turned, and this data is used to control the acceleration in the game. If the pedaling speed drops below a certain RPM, the player character stops accelerating in the game.

More complicated is how the Ring Fit Adventure accessory is used as a steering wheel and as a way to use in-game items like banana shells and skins. The custom TAPBO accessory created by Choi includes a set of tiny servo-controlled robotic arms that press physical buttons on a connected Joy-Con controller. The TAPBO and Joy-Con spoons are then attached to the Ring Fit Adventure accessory, which translates to directional rotational movements in the game, while squeezing movements are used to pull objects or hold them behind your cart to protect them.

Choi spent about six months designing and perfecting the Lab Fit Adventure Kart, which was made without modifying or hacking Nintendo hardware. Everything is made possible thanks to the TAPBO accessory he created, so i hope Nintendo will not make any attempt to get this video deleted like it did recently done with other hackers sharing their work on YouTube. And as perfect as the setup seems as we move into another year of staying home responsibly as much as possible, Choi currently has no plans to put this prototype hardware into production or sell it to d. ‘other players.