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Saturday, September 3, 2005

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Saturday, September 3, 2005 HOWTO convert an NES controller to an optical mouse There's lots you can do with a classic NES controller (belt-buckle, wrist-band, TV remote, etc), but how about turning it into an optical mouse? Here's step-by-step instructions for gutting a classic Nintedo controller and transplanting the innards of an optical mouse to its interior. Link (via Geisha Asobi) posted by Cory Doctorow at 09:19:57 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: