"Things are so much funner with others"

Making of a DIY gaming console and the insights of a child

Over the last weekend, my son and I built a video game console. It took little more than a Raspberry Pi mini-computer board, some readily downloadable open-source software, and a few cheap controllers we purchased on Amazon. Our DIY gaming machine is far from today's graphics-intensive systems. It's more akin to consoles of old like the Atari 2600 and t…