If you’re one of the nearly 3,500 Kickstarter backers paying to give your Lego Game Boy an actual screen and buttons, I have a question: did you expect those buttons to have physical switches underneath?
Because the BrickBoy – not to be confused with Natalie the Nerd’s Build A Boy – is not currently going with physical clicks. Instead, it glues rare earth magnets inside Lego bricks, for what will hopefully be a magical experience.
This came as a surprise to me, because the BrickBoy Kickstarter, ending in three days, barely mentions magnets at all. Every one of the startup’s promo image shows domed switches underneath the buttons, and star …
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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/832654/brickboy-kickstarter-lego-game-boy-magnet-buttons
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