SUPERCHARGED SUPER MARIO
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The maker movement has really inspired me to think about purchasing one of the programmable boards with the popular ARM chip set. I picked up the Ardruino flagship board, the uno, and had some fun writing code to control LEDs and even play the old Super Mario music from the NES game. Speaking of NES I always had an itch to build an awesome Mame machine and never really sat down to draft up the plans to build one. I also wanted to continue to dabble in the maker space and go beyond the simple breadboard applications using the adruino. That's where the Raspberry Pi comes in. I waited patiently for the new model b to come out before going to my local electronics maker shop to purchase one. I even received a sweet 3D printed case that fits perfectly for all the new ports available on the new version Pi.
Call it fate but I was lucky to find an old NES at an electronics resale store and got it for free since it was pretty much dead. Right now I disassembled the case and removed the unusable guts of the game system. I held onto the power and reset switches as well as the controller ports to use on the rebuild. Now I'm ready to place a fresh coat of primer before moving on to the final color which I'm still debating on going with either all white or chrome. Here are some before and after pics from the disassemble and primer coat.
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