Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Bullet Bill Zapper Lamp

I want to thank Pixel-Kakashi for the Bullet Bill papercraft, and fluffypants for the Zapper lamp idea. I used a real Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cart and ©1985 Zapper, and built the Bullet Bill around a small, black lampshade. I wanted to make it as close to "seamless" as I could, so I kept the Nintendo® controller plug, and made the trigger a functional on/off switch. This project took about 20 hours, and altogether was around $40 (after a onetime purchase of a $25 bit kit to open all sorts of game cartridges and systems). I hope you land on this blog and like what you see as it has been fun for me.