A hand-made wooden arcade controller, built for a clone of the classic arcade game "Tempest".
Cherry & poplar solid wood, acrylic, Teensy 4.0, arcade buttons, rotary encoder
2025
The prompt for this project was to fabricate something using primarily 2 different materials that are not acrylic or plywood (ie: 40% material one, 40% material two – the remaining 20% to be acrylic or plywood if it made sense for the design).
I created a retro-style arcade controller, intended to be paired with a clone of the old vector-graphics game Tempest that I made in Unity.
This piece is part of a series around the theme "symmetry is overrated", and plays with the use of intentional and surprising asymmetry.
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