An arduino kit is usually the force behind a lot of GeekTech’s favorite hacks, such as the Yarn Monster, and it even has its own documentary. And then there’s the Rainbowduino for those drawn ...

Luckily, Nortje knows a little something about wiring together a faux Nintendo using Arduino.So he set up an old monitor into a Game Boy-like housing with an oversized D-Pad and two buttons.

In a previous project, Arduino Ping Pong Pinball, I used solenoids and u-brackets to construct a pinball type game. However, in this earlier version, a solenoid had to be manually triggered to ...