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This Original NES Now Has a Desktop, a Mouse and a Web Browser That Plays YouTube, Thanks to an FPGA Cartridge and an ESP32-S3 The Nintendo Entertainment System was never meant to be a computer. It has a 6502-based CPU, 2 KB of RAM and two controller ports. Yet Throaty Mumbo has turned his NES into something that looks and behaves a lot like a 1990s desktop PC: a Windows-style desktop with a start menu, files and a trash bin, a USB keyboard and mouse, a MIDI keyboard, CD and DVD playback, and a web browser that can… |
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iPod Lives Again: Open-Source RPi Motherboard Adds Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB-C, 2TB Storage, Spotify, Apple Music & More For nearly two decades, vintage Apple iPods have been dormant in desk drawers, victims of dead batteries, obsolete charging cables, and retired iTunes libraries. Now, a London-based hardware startup called Certain Things is changing the narrative with Sprout, an open-source replacement motherboard that drags early-2000s music players kicking and screaming into the modern wireless era. Rather… |
