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NES Controller MP3 player hack

Posted by Hemos on from the good-stuff-to-look-at dept.

Skadet writes "Martin Kersch of Germany made great use of a boring Saturday afternoon by transforming an ordinary USB Stick and NES Controller into an MP3 Player (original German). He even hacked the buttons on the controller to work with the mp3 player, "Start" is On/Play, and the directional pad functions as the song changer/volume control. Do you remember those NES Controller Belt Buckles? They should integrate these MP3 Players into those things."

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  1. Useless... by mekkab · · Score: 3, Informative

    A link like this is a far greater use than a simple "Hey, I put an mp3 player in an unlikely spot! Here are some pictures and absolutely no explanation!!"
    This is like having the Phantom console make the slashdot front page! Oh, wait. Nevermind.

    /Now if he had put Linux on a toaster, then we'd be all ears...

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  2. Re:PLEASE use nyud.net by Viper+Daimao · · Score: 3, Informative

    in his defense, my internet filter at work blocks nyud.net because it's an anonymizer so I'm grateful he posted the original link.

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  3. Re:How by martin_at · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just to clarify that: It is beyond me why some of the Slashdot folks are calling this a fake. All I did was disassemble an ordinary USB MP3 stick (a SHE MP-101 BD, to be exact), cut the NES controllers PCB to size, and wire the buttons to the MP3 players button contacts. The holes for the headphones and USB connector where indeed done using a dremel tool. This is of course not wizardry, but I still think its pretty cool to have a custom player like that. If you don't like it, don't read it (I wasn't expecting to find this on slashdot anyway). Btw., as anyone with at least basic www knowledge should be able to recognize: .at stands for Austria. I am not from Germany. But then again, flaming is so much easier than thinking.

  4. Re:PLEASE use nyud.net by erlenic · · Score: 2, Informative

    What about those of us stuck behind a Microsoft DNS server? We can't use this silly nyud.net thing. See http://wiki.coralcdn.org/wiki.php/Main/FAQ#SERVFAI L.
    I'm glad he posted the original link, so I can get to it.