I built a robot to win at Mario Party minigames
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HN · launched Jan 12, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: robotics software and platforms · 195 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No This requires physical robotics hardware, custom 3D design, electronics, stepper motor controllers, and real-time computer vision actuation to physically manipulate a Nintendo Joy-Con.
What it would actually take: The project combines 3D-printed mechanical linkages, a spherical parallel manipulator (SPM) driven by NEMA 17 stepper motors, solenoids for button triggers, motor driver boards (like TMC2209), and a microcontroller (ESP32/Arduino). A host PC captures HDMI video via a capture card, processes frames via OpenCV at low latency to detect game state, and coordinates real-time kinematics over serial. This demands cross-disciplinary mechanical engineering, embedded systems, and computer vision skills.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 611 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #579 of 612 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 75 days after the earliest competitor.
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- minigame · github · 2026-09-16 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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