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Duck Hunt NES zapper lamp

May 9, 2008 at 10:50 am · Filed under Video Games, Other

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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Fluffypants wrote @ May 9th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

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. :(

Ricky wrote @ May 9th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

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

David wrote @ May 9th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

Fantastic!!! I love it!

Louise wrote @ May 12th, 2008 at 12:22 am

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