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Nintendo’s part in inspiring young STEM students

Across Choi’s projects, Nintendo remains a constant. “I’m a huge fanboy,” he laughs. From his days as a high-school student poking at DS’s touchscreen technology, the company’s products helped Choi decide to become an engineer. “That’s such an enormous part of my inspiration. Nintendo is always doing something really weird.” His favourite product of recent years is Labo. “It’s one of the most ambitious things they’ve done,” he says. In how it explores the Switch hardware, it could inspire the next generation of hardware hackers. “Labo totally has the spirit of trying to teach younger kids how to think about engineering.”