Aug 21
I finally completed the Nintendo controller card reader. Before i drone on about it there are a few things that must be said.
1. I did not play much Nintendo as a child. I was in 9th or 10th grade when they hit it big and i was not very interested in it.
2. If you try this you could hurt yourself, burn your house down, knock down the power in your community, or worse.
You’ll need some stuff for this project.
You can see that the cardreader is just the right size for the controller. Despite some of my other projects i’m really not that interested in soldering and modifying everything - i’d rather just open one case and put the guts from something else in. This isn’t as much a craft as a skinning project.
I glued the buttons in place and then trimmed them down as much as possible to make space for the cardreader.
Mark the areas for the cards you want to be able to read. This was a “12″ in one cardreader but i only use compact flash and sd cards. I used the Dremel to cut the initial hole and then used the razor to trim it nicely.
I did run into a small problem. The cord for the cardreader didn’t fit the form factor.
Looking at the board i realized i couldn’t solder a new usb cord in. I had to risk cutting away plastic to see if i could get the cord to fit after discarding the unnecessary parts.
It worked. I also trimmed some of the sheathing of the cord to make it fit well. I then glued everything in place because i didn’t want the parts to drift around at all.
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August 23rd, 2005 at 5:19 am
you should make a swapable / removable hard drive out of an old atari cartridge system and some of the 1.8″ hard drives [they might just fit into atari cartridges]
August 23rd, 2005 at 3:19 pm
we never even owned a nintendo, did we?
but Amiga games…Dungeon Master, Defender of the Crown, Marble Madness, Populous…
August 30th, 2005 at 12:33 am
this is so MONEY.
September 16th, 2005 at 11:35 pm
yippie Yay
September 16th, 2005 at 11:36 pm
longest post ever
September 16th, 2005 at 11:45 pm
Fastest edit ever.
September 24th, 2005 at 6:10 am
Nice mod!
February 12th, 2007 at 12:53 am
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May 7th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
What brand of card reader is it?
May 8th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
I think it was a generic one. It did not have a brand name on it any where. Seems to me that i paid $9.99 for it at some point.
August 1st, 2007 at 10:09 am
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March 31st, 2008 at 8:19 pm
we are chinese suppliers for card reader and other pc accessries/welcome contact me