Rebuild a Broken NES with a Raspberry Pi

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As time marches inexorably forward, vintage game systems like the NES inevitably stop working. But if you have a deceased system in your attic, you can bring it back from the dead with a Raspberry Pi.

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Igor Kromin shared this project on his blog. Amazingly, you can control the original system's power button, indicator LED, and even integrate the original controllers using an open source driver and the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins.

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A pretty neat modern mix of old and new i think, with the advantage of having every game ever released for the console on a memory card!
 

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