Larger Than Life Project

For our project, me, Joel, Josh, Grace, and Devin chose to make a Super Nintendo Controller. The final project is 6 by 2 1/2 feet large with about a 3 foot long cord. The controller is made up of mostly styrofoam and poster-board paper. All of the pieces are mainly connected with glue and tape, and the entire project is painted.

This project was a fairly large challenge for all of us, mostly because of how hard it was to find the right materials and work out how to construct it. We started out by gluing three pieces of 2 inch thick foam together in order to create the right depth of the controller, and we cut the pieces out with a styrofoam cutter. In order to create the right surface texture, we glued poster-board paper to the surface and painted over that. We painted the lettering and logos on with stencils and glued the buttons on top of rolled up newspaper in order to make them pushable. I learned a lot from this project simply because I had never worked this extensively with these materials, and in order to figure out how to make it from scratch was a challenge.