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Terence Eden\u00a0is a self-confessed tinkerer based in Oxford, UK. His wife picked him up a copy of The MagPi with a Zero on the front of it and he decided to embed it inside an XBox controller. He cut a few bits and pieces out of the controller and slotted the Zero in,\u00a0hot-wiring the USB connection from the inside. He loaded up the\u00a0RetroPie<\/a>\u00a0gaming emulator and lo and behold, he’d created a self-contained gaming machine\/control device. Take a look on his blog for how he did it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terence Eden\u00a0is a self-confessed tinkerer based in Oxford, UK. His wife picked him up a copy of The MagPi with a Zero on the front of it and he decided to embed it inside an XBox controller. He cut a…<\/p>\n

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