The Nintendo 3DS was an revolutionary handheld console in its time, however that point has now lengthy since handed. First launched in 2011, the 3DS is historic by the requirements of the fast-paced world of gaming. However happily for video video games, they have an inclination to get higher with age. Pac-Man, for example, could also be 45 years previous — however when you ask me, he by no means seemed higher.
Even so, the growing older {hardware} these video games have been initially performed on does lack many fashionable conveniences. YouTuber KOUZEX is an enormous fan of the 3DS, however has been dreaming of what it will be like if this traditional handheld received the Swap remedy. Relatively than simply questioning about it, KOUZEX determined to do one thing about it and constructed a Swap-esque dock for the 3DS.
This undertaking was positively not nearly superficial appearances — KOUZEX wished it to essentially work like a Swap dock. Meaning not solely charging, but additionally HDMI output to a TV and Swap Professional Controller assist. Charging shouldn’t be too robust of a job to deal with, however HDMI output and assist for a contemporary wi-fi controller? How is that this previous relic going to deal with that?
Nicely, it will possibly’t. However it may be made to work with some hacking. KOUZEX secretly slipped a USB video seize card inside the unique 3DS case. This works along side a Raspberry Pi single-board laptop that converts the output into an HDMI sign that may be output by way of the dock. Controller assist took some extra hacking to feed the inputs from a wi-fi receiver board into the system. Charging was a lot simpler: supplying 5VDC through a pair of uncovered electrodes was all that was wanted.
To make the dock seem like a completed product, all the {hardware} was fitted into a pleasant 3D-printed case. Now KOUZEX can slide a 3DS into the customized dock and get all the advantages of a contemporary console with out having to depend on emulation to play traditional video games. It was quite a lot of work, however oh so value it!Since when does the 3DS have a dock? (📷: KOUZEX)
Assembling the {hardware} (📷: KOUZEX)
