https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17253688/nintendo-switch-labo-cardboard-toy-con-garage

Over the last few weeks on YouTube, Nintendo’s been teasing what you can do with Labo — the DIY cardboard accessory kit for the Switch — which comes out this Friday. One of the most intriguing videos was a demonstration of Toy-Con Garage, the programming platform within Labo’s software. Using the toy piano included in the Variety Kit, a makeshift cardboard guitar, and multiple controllers (including one attached to some Crocs), Nintendo showed off a Labo band.

There’s some really creative use cases for Toy-Con Garage, much of which allow for Rube Goldberg machine-like possibilities. But using the Switch as a tool for music production seemed like one of the most practical and promising features of Labo, so I decided to test it out for myself. One of the biggest challenges was finding a song that was simple enough to play on the toy piano’s limited number of keys, and also used minimal guitar chords, since I’d have to program each note individually. I chose “Rainbow Connection” from the Muppets movie because I naively thought would be easy. It was not easy. It was one of the most mentally draining experiences of my life, and I may have concentrated harder on this than I did on my actual SATs.