This Switch Controller Is Made of LEGOs

There are dozens of different Nintendo Switch Pro Controller designs out there if you want to personalize your gaming experience. But if you want something truly unique, you’ll have to make it yourself. That may sound like a difficult thing to do, but as Brux recently demonstrated, it is actually pretty simple. With just a few electronic components and a handful of LEGO bricks, Brux made one of the most original Pro Controllers you will ever see.

From the housing of the controller to the buttons and joysticks, everything (that is externally visible) is made of LEGOs. If you would like to reproduce the build, the design of the controller has been made publicly available. It comes equipped with everything you would expect: a D-pad, two analog joysticks, A/B/X/Y buttons, shoulder buttons, and the Home and Capture buttons.

Underneath the LEGO bricks is a custom circuit board that connects the thumb joysticks to a Waveshare ESP32-S3-Zero development board. The D-pad and main button cluster also have custom circuit boards that feed into the development board. The shoulder buttons have both standard push buttons and potentiometers to support analog inputs. Home and Capture are basic push buttons hidden under a LEGO brick.

Since the ESP32-S3 can act as a USB HID device, it can pass all of the controller’s inputs on to the Switch (or PC, for that matter) just as if it were an official Pro Controller.

If you want to make your Pro Controller as unique as you are, check out the video below to see how you can make it happen.