Retro Repair Blog and Articles
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One cartridge, two consoles, and an LED bright enough to illuminate the workbench. Today I’m building the Pico A10400, a DIY Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 multicart, then giving it a case that looks a bit more finished than a bare circuit board sticking out of the console. If you’re looking for an Atari VCS…
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Two survivors from the house fire hit the bench: a soot-caked Frog Bog cartridge and an Intellivision. I clean them up, then build a Pi Pico multi-cart so the console can run a whole library from an SD card.
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Joy-Con drift is mechanical wear, not a software bug. I fit GuliKit TMR joysticks to a left and right Joy-Con, then calibrate and fully restart the Switch to stop phantom drift.
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Seven Commodore 64s of unknown condition, one untrusted power supply. I build and calibrate an OpenC64Saver from PCBWay boards, then put every machine through the same test.
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The machine doing the work was the Anycubic Kobra X, which arrived as sponsored hardware. It is a four colour filament changing printer that does not need a separate multi material box bolted to the side of your desk, and that turned out to matter more than I expected. Building the Anycubic Kobra X (the…