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Memphis Makers and Creators build giant Nintendo controller By Hannah Bailey
news@dailyhelmsman.com The Memphis Makers and Creators, a University of Memphis student organization, has constructed what is potentially the third largest Nintendo Entertainment System controller in the world. Engineering technology major Shawn Westcott is president of Memphis Makers and Creators, although he credits the idea to make the giant controller to fellow Makers and Creators member Joseph Williams. “Put a bunch of nerds on something that is really awesome and it happens,” Westcott said. Unlike other engineering groups on campus that are professional organizations, Memphis Makers and Creators, started by Westcott last fall, is a hobby and engineering group that focuses on skill building and having fun. “Our main goal is to make something that even a beginner could understand,” Westcott said. “Lots of people in the group are not in engineering. If you want to learn a skill, we will find somebody who knows it.” Five Makers and Creators members completed the project just under their $300 budget, which was funded by the Crews Center for Entrepreneurship.
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favorite,” Ingalls, a former U of M student, said. ”It just kind of came full circle when we realized it was a David Bowie lyric, who we all like. People assume that it’s a reference, which it’s not.” The band was founded two years ago and was started by Ingalls, guitarist Eric Martin and bassist Matt Strong. The three core members also serve as the
Their season doesn’t start for four more months, but the University of Memphis football team has been hard at work over the past few weeks using the short amount of practice time the NCAA allots to teams around the country each spring. The Tigers plan to close out the spring session with the BlueGray Spring Game, an inner-squad scrimmage between two drafted teams. This is the first season Memphis has held the game under head coach Justin Fuente. The event, scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m., will be free and open to the public, and the athletic department hopes to make it an annual community event. The Tigers ended last week’s practices with a scrimmage on Saturday. The defense shined at the start of the scrimmage, but the offense caught up as the scrimmage progressed. Throughout the spring session, Fuente has liked the way his team has competed and worked to get better on both sides of the ball. “I was proud of the way the defense came out and started,” Fuente said after the scrimmage. “They forced the tempo. They were intense.” The defense forced a litany of turnovers at the beginning of the practice. Senior defensive backs Fritz Etienne and Bakari Hollier each recorded interceptions and junior linebacker Leonard Pegues recovered a fumble. Last season, Memphis’ offensive attack struggled to overcome adversity as a unit. If they had one negative play, the drive seemingly halted each time. However, they showed the resiliency they’ve developed in the offseason on
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Shawn Westcott plays Super Mario on his laptop using the oversized Nintendo controller. Measuring 2-foot 5-inches wide, 5 foot 5 inches high and 768 inches tall, and 13.5 times the size of a normal NES controller, its sheer size makes it almost impossible for just one player to operate.
“Our original dimensions were even bigger but people were joking that we were making a coffin, so we decided to make it a little smaller,” Westcott said. The structure of the control-
ler is made out of decking plywood and pine boards held together with a piano hinge, the only hardware sturdy enough to hold its liftable lid. Inside the colossal box are “tactile
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Psychedelic SpaceFace brings power and presence to the stage By Samuel Prager
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When the psychedelic popinfused rock band SpaceFace takes the stage, they are surrounded by hundreds of multicolored bulbs flashing brightly as they hammer through their set. As the last members of the group graduate from college, the band plans to take their unique light show to the stars.
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“I was on tour with the Flaming Lips in South America and my stage manager was showing me his old band, which was pretty metal, and he was telling me the story of the band,” Jake Ingalls, singer and guitarist for SpaceFace and the synth and guitar player for indie legends Flaming Lips, said. “I asked if they had anything online and he said I didn’t have any of that space face stuff since he couldn’t remember Facebook or
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MySpace. It just stuck with me.” Ingalls, who met the Flaming Lips four years ago and eventually became a member of the band, said that although the other members were resistant to the name at first, his persistence eventually led to the name becoming official. “It was vague, kind of futuristic, but most of all it sounded like us. I had pitched a few names to Wayne (the singer of the Flaming Lips), and it was his
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Westcott said. “You can’t plan for everything that could go wrong, and a lot goes wrong.” Initial planning for the project began last fall and the actual construction started in February. Although the fully functional controller is not finished, the group celebrated by holding a gaming party last week in the University Center Bluff room. Around 30 people attended the party
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switches wired to a teensy development board that pretends it’s a USB controller” and the same basic push buttons that one would find on a traditional Nintendo controller, only much larger. “Planning was the hardest part,”
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two great road opponents in Louisville and Houston, and then here comes UCF, who is always athletic and happens to be first in the conference.” Friday night will most likely be a pitching duel. Schoenrock said the Knights plan to throw lefty ace Eric Skoglund, but he plans to counter with Tigers’ ace, junior left-hander Caleb Wallingford. Wallingford has posted a 1.29 ERA in 48.2 innings of work, notching a 4-2 record on the year. His UCF counterpart, Skoglund, enters the game with a 1.83 ERA and 5-0 record. The Knights season has been an inverse of the Tigers’ year. They lost nine out of 10 games early in the season before going on a recent tear, winning 11 of their last 13. Schoenrock said it should be a good
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Midway through their season, the University of Memphis baseball team sits at 18-16 overall and 3-6 in the American Athletic Conference after a hot 12-2 start. Despite the skid, the Tigers are staying positive and looking at the second half of the season as a fresh start. Their first test comes on Friday evening when they welcome the University of Central Florida (20-14, 8-1 AAC) to FedExPark at 6:30 p.m. Memphis head coach Daron Schoenrock wants to get his team healthy, and he said he’s happy to be back at home to get some rest for his team’s tired legs. “Our guys are so beat up,” Schoenrock said. “It was a real big challenge playing
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group’s first big project, something Westcott intends to implement in the group every year. According the Westcott, talk for next year’s project is leaning towards a remote control helicopter. Students interested in viewing the giant NES controller can see it where it currently resides in the lobby of the Crews Center for Entrepreneurship on Walker Avenue.
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and played Mario, Kirby and Punch Out on the giant controller. The controller currently has to be hooked up to a monitor, whether it is TV or a laptop. “We are going to put in a video out and it will be a Nintendo and everything,” Westcott said. “There will be switches to change your game on the side.” The giant NES controller is the
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series, and both teams have posted very similar statistics. He said UCF brings more power to the table offensively, but the Tigers try to grind out innings and capitalize on mistakes. One problem for the U of M has been slow starts. Schoenrock would like to see his guys jump out on their opponents earlier in the game. “We’ve missed some opportunities early in the game,” the 10th-year coach said. “We play much better in the second half of ballgames.” The Tigers have been banged up on the infield, and senior infielder Zach Willis has been limited over the past several games. Schoenrock said the addition of Willis back into the lineup should give
the Tigers a boost on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball. The Blue and Gray are ranked eighth in the American with a lot of baseball left to be played. Schoenrock said the American is looking like one of the best conferences in college baseball and could be a three or four bid league to the College World Series. The U of M plans to dedicate their indoor facility to longtime Memphis baseball supporter W.S. “Babe” Howard. The ceremony is set for 1 p.m. on the south side of FedExPark. In addition to Friday’s game, the two teams will clash on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s game is slated for 2 p.m., and Sunday’s first pitch will be at 11:30 a.m.
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group’s songwriters. “I just hear somebody say something that sounds cool or I see something that sticks out, and I let it incubate in my head,” Ingalls said. “Then I’ll write a line or stanza and then I write around it. I have more of a philosophical approach, Eric has the party element and Matt adds the personal touch to our song writing.” The unique group, which now consists of six full-time members, also features drummer “CaveMan” and the most recent addition, keyboardist and U of M senior Peter Armstrong. Along with the five musicians, the outfit also includes lights and production manager “Big Red.” All the members agree that their light show and stage presence is a very important part of their performance, noting that it not only adds another layer
of depth to their show, but that it also makes the band stick out among other local or touring acts. “The goal is to make every show an experience. Every band can get up there and play music, but it adds another layer to have a big light show behind you—it makes you stick out,” Big Red said. SpaceFace shows, which vary in lights depending on the size of the venue, at most have two light walls, three lighted monoliths, eight 30-foot strands of LED ropes, a retired skating alley disco light, guitar lasers, projectors and many more of the band’s self-crafted effects. “Some people might see it as a gimmick, but we just want to add to the experience,” Armstrong said. “I feel like the music is good enough to stand alone, but we want people to come out and say, ‘Wow that was amazing.’” Ingalls said their initial goal was to bring a light show, which
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are more commonly seen at venues like the FedExForum, to clublevel venues, and make the most out of the audience members’ $5. Along with lights, SpaceFace shows have adopted confetti shows and costumed guests on stage. The group said they hope to never have the exact same show twice. “It’s definitely a production. We pride ourselves on our light shows. The initial take away we hope the returning audiences get is that we try to make every show different,” bassist Matt Strong said. “Sometimes we shoot out confetti, sometimes balloons, sometimes we have projector and occasionally we even have a person running around in a lion costume.” Armstrong, who has played in several pop-punk outfits in the music scene, said that this band is very different from other acts he’s been in and that being apart of the group is much more than just playing music. “It’ s completely different vibe than other things I’ve done. I get to play music as well as help with the production of the shows,” Armstrong said. “We all meet together and say let’s get these pipes and these lights and make something. When we’re practicing, I’m not just rehearsing the music. I have a power drill, I’m mixing concrete and building a set.” The group recently played Austin’s South by Southwest Music Festival, which they all noted was a great experience. The members plan to take the group to the next level as soon as Armstrong graduates this year. “One of the things I really like about this group is that we are all really forward thinking,” Strong said. “We’re trying to pursue this as our career. Ultimately this is something we all want to do. Once we get rid of all of our anchors, we’re going at it.” The group released a selftitled EP last year which can be heard on their website spacefaceband.com
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Saturday. “Since I have been here, (the offense) hasn’t been able to dig themselves out of a hole,” the thirdyear coach said. “They absolutely did that today and made some plays.” Senior running back Brandon Hayes and sophomore receiver Sam Craft shined on the offensive side of the ball. They each scored rushing touchdowns, and Craft hooked up with sophomore quarterback Paxton Lynch for two scores on the day. Fuente loved seeing his young offense compete the way they did. “I think there was an overall sense of not panicking and not getting down which I have seen before,” Fuente said. “It was Paxton, Sam and Brandon. It was the offensive line. It was them just saying ‘Hey, we’re okay. There’s no reason for us to get down. But there is a reason for us to buckle up and go get something done.’ They absolutely did.” The Blue-Gray have received visits from several former players during the spring practices. Former defensive back Robert Steeples, who currently plays professionally for the Minnesota Vikings, paid his former school a visit. He said he likes the direction the program is headed. “The intensity and enthusiasm of practice is there,” he said. “And the physicality of practice is definitely there. Now I think it is just a matter of discipline. It is definitely heading in the right direction, and I’m impressed.” Friday’s Blue-Gray Spring Game will be more than just a glorified practice. Tiger Lane will open at 5 p.m., and the Tigers will do their traditional walkthrough at 6 p.m. Activities in Tiger Lane will include an appearance by TOM III, the live Bengal tiger serving as the U of M’s official mascot. There will also be live music, inflatables, an autograph session and a barbecue contest.
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Sophomore standout Sam Craft takes snaps from the receiver and running back position. He shined in last week’s scrimmage, scoring on the ground and through the air.
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