This article was published on March 31, 2017

This DIY Nintendo build is pure portable nostalgia


This DIY Nintendo build is pure portable nostalgia

If you’re still going nuts over the NES Classic Edition, you can do better.

For around $40 more (not counting a bit of manual labor) you can turn a Moleskine notebook (or any notebook, really) into a portable gaming machine loaded up with your favorite classic games — and not just from Nintendo.

Better still, you can add or remove games at any time, unlike the NES Classic Edition which is pretty much a what-you-see-is-what-you-get experience that comes with 30 games (and doesn’t give you the option to buy more).

In some cases, it’s better to just build your own.

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The system uses a cheap microcontroller — the Raspberry Pi Zero — and a few easy-to-find parts to create the ultimate in on-the-go gaming. The build instructions are available at Hackster.io, and it’s estimated to take about three hours.

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