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Hack Lets You Track the International Space Station With an NES
Screen shot courtesy of Vi Grey
People have done a lot of weird things with the NES in the more than 30 years since it was released. There are bizarre peripherals best left to the trash bin of history, like Konami’s voice-activated LaserScope that barely worked, and there are wonderful experiments that push and pull at the hardware’s capabilities in ways Nintendo could have never imagined.
The International Space Station Tracker, made by longtime homebrew developer Vi Grey, does exactly what it absurdly promises: it allows you to use an NES to track the current location of the International Space Station, as it slowly floats above and around the Earth.
While Nintendo did release a dial-up modem for the NES in 1988 (in Japan), the NES…
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