Nintendo shows off Labo's Garage mode, a programming toolkit for kids

UPDATE 22/3/18 10.15am: Another week, another genuinely impressive video showing off the capabilities of Nintendo Labo, the Switch's upcoming cardboard-based accessory system.

Today's footage shows how you can create your own Toy-Con and program them using the Labo software's Garage creator mode. Specifically, this time, how you can do all of this using inputs from the Joy-Con's infra-red camera to detect other objects.

Toy-Con creations use the right Joy-Con's IR sensor to beam light around its environment and react accordingly. Moving objects flagged up with reflective tape can be spotted by the camera - which then becomes an input to do something within the Garage software's logic. You can then add processes and an output.

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