Super Nintendo controller becomes doorbell

Posted by anthonykuo , Jul, 2009 @ 12:09 pm

Apartment Therapy Unplugged brings to light an awesomely geeky DIY mod — turning an old Super Nintendo controller into a doorbell. At one point in its life, pressing the A button would have told Mario to jump up and land on a Goomba, but not anymore. Alas, the game itself and the system are no longer in mainstream play.

But when it comes to actually sending the controller to the junkyard, well, that’s just hard to do. Nostalgia kicks in. And so, pressing the A button (or any button, really) makes a doorbell ring — it works up to 30 feet through walls.

Tags: DIY, doorbell, hack, mario, mod, nintendo, super nintendo