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Making a Handheld NES By Turning DIP Chips into…QFN?

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Arya Voronova

Picture showing the way the cut-down piece of chip is soldered onto the mainboard - looking, indeed, like a QFN package.

You can achieve a lot with a Dremel. For instance, apparently you can slim the original NES down into the hand-held form-factor. Both the CPU and the PPU (Picture Processing …read more Continue reading Making a Handheld NES By Turning DIP Chips into…QFN?→

Open-DIP Surgery Cuts Retro Chips Down to Size

Posted on March 6, 2021 by Dan Maloney

At least by today’s standards, some of the early chips were really, really big. They may have been revolutionary and they certainly did shrink the size of electronic devices, but integrating a 40-pin DIP into a modern design can be …read more

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