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NES Controller Interface for Etch A Sketch

YouTuber Alpinedelta32 created this simple but fun retro remix by combining a Nintendo Entertainment System controller with an Etch A Sketch. The drawing toy’s knobs are rotated by 12 volt stepper motors and they’re controlled with the d-pad of the NES controller. Behind the scenes he has an Arduino for motor control and a computer power supply to provide the 12 volts needed by the steppers. I’m guessing the next logical step is to rig the start button to flip the Etch A Sketch over and shake away the drawing.

Continue Reading November 26th, 2011 Matt Richardson6

Hack an NES into A USB Drive Dock for Retro Data Storage

Instructible user fungus amungus turned his broken Nintendo Entertainment System into a flash drive dock and modded his game cartridges with 8GB flash drives. Now when he inserts the game carts into the NES, the drives appear on his desktop. As a nice touch, he added custom icons for each drive so that he knows […]

Continue Reading March 9th, 2011 Matt Richardson6

Open Source Nintendo DS Bluetooth adapter

Gordan Savicic and Gottfried Haider of DSbrut fame have tipped us off that they’ve just released their DS Bluetooth adapter for the Nintendo DS.

Continue Reading October 20th, 2009 Adam Flaherty

Automatic Mario could go on forever …

What happens when automatic level generating software meets skilled Mario-bot software? – the above effortless automation apparently. Hmm, not so quite as exciting to watch without the possibility of tripping up. Though, there was a classic wall-jump save near the midpoint. Update: In the comments, Ian points out this higher qual youtube version and clarifies […]

Continue Reading August 12th, 2009 Collin Cunningham14

Austin Event: Mario Kart 64 Tournament!

Tomorrow night, you can get your classic game on at Game Over Videogames’ last event of Classic Game Fest ’08. And, there’s an outdoor screening of The King of Kong, a great if somewhat sad story of the ridiculous rivalry induced by Donkey Kong addiction. Here’s the full info: Sign ups are at 8:00pm, but […]

Continue Reading August 20th, 2008 Luke Iseman2

The iBand

We all have seen tons of hacks for the iPhone and the Nintendo DS, but this one is a bit different. The iBand is a musical collaboration between (2) iPhones and (1) Nintendo DS. They don’t have much on their site, but they claim more information, and songs, will be posted soon. – Link

Continue Reading February 20th, 2008 Marc de Vinck