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DIY Weekend: Shining a new light on an old video game classic (Albuquerque Journal)

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For Bryan Duxbury and Adam Ellsworth, a shared interest in DIY Arduino
projects and a conversation at a Christmas party led to a pretty bright idea
and an unexpected side business.

The two San Francisco residents are the creators of the Interactive 8bit
Question Block lamp--a Super Mario Bros.-inspired piece of home decor. For
fans of the game, the lamp should instantly look familiar, as it resembles the
blocks that Mario hits to earn coins and other loot. The design alone already
makes it pretty cool, but that's not where the fun ends.

To turn the light on or off, you must punch (actually, a gentle tap is enough
and recommended) the bottom of the block, and every time you do so, it makes a
coin sound just like in the video game. On every eighth tap, you're rewarded
with the 1-Up sound. It's a piece of Super Mario Bros. come to life.

This project may never have seen the light of day, however, had it not been
for a chance meeting at a company Christmas party.

By day, Duxbury, 28, is a software engineer at San Francisco-based startup
Rapleaf, but in his ...

Albuquerque Journal