Retro Joystick Invention Launchpad

Unleash your inner inventor!

This hands-on kit includes everything you need to build your own fully functional arcade-style joystick using everyday materials and a Makey Makey.

Every Invention Launchpad comes with a vibrant ’zine featuring step-by-step instructions, fascinating background facts, and awesome insights into inventing with simple circuits. Scan QR codes to access bonus content and loads of ideas for creative project hacks and mods.

When you’ve completed assembly, plug your joystick into Selfie Arcade – an exclusive online browser-based gaming platform that lets you drop your own selfies, textures, or other captured images directly into classic arcade-style games.

You’ll get a hands-on introduction to simple circuits, digital inputs and outputs, and game design, but the fun doesn’t end when the build is completed. Now you’ve got the tools and the confidence to reinvent your joystick – mod it, hack it, personalize it, add more actions and more buttons, build your next game controller out of different materials and play with your friends to see whose controller wins the game – or whose just makes game play more fun. The only limit is your imagination!