There’s one place in which the originals sometimes have the edge though, the classic controllers ... Arduino board onto the original serial interface. We might have made a Nintendo socket to USB ...

you can easily turn an old NES controller into a USB gamepad with an Arduino. This project requires the usual tools one would expect from an Arduino project: a soldering iron, a multimeter ...

Meanwhile, the Arduino Mega is getting the same USB chip along with an ATMega2560 processor with twice the memory. Right now only 128K is available, but that's a software limitation and they're ...