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Duck Hunt NES zapper lamp

From craftster.org:

So one day I picked up an NES Zapper (gun) and went “woah, that would make a cool lamp!” So… after playing around…

I gutted one… who knew this is what they looked like inside?

Then I stumbled around for ideas for the base and shade.  A regular cartridge was too small a base, so I measured one and made a 1.5 scale replica out of cardboard, and screwed the gun to it.  I weighted it with stones, and then tackled the shade.

I picked up a $2 shade at the re-store, a pack of fun foam, and voila!  After hours and hours of cutting pixellated shapes, I was done!  A little dab of glue to secure the shade, and… ta dah!

I want one of these, especially if you can pull the trigger to turn it on and off.

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  1. Fluffypants says:

    Hey, that’s my lamp! :D I was actually trying to get the trigger to function as the switch, but there wasn’t enough room in there to fit in a sensor as well as the working trigger. :(

  2. Ricky says:

    Thanks for stopping by and thanks for making a great lamp too! :)

  3. David says:

    Fantastic!!! I love it!

  4. Louise says:

    Way cool!!
    I have a SNES gun in a drawer somewhere which I could probably put to better use……if only there were more hours in the day…sigh