Nintendo DS Hardware Restoration

I had a few dead Nintendo DS consoles lying around with all kinds of problems — cracked LCDs, broken ribbon cables, bad connectors. Instead of throwing them out, I decided to actually figure out what was wrong with each one and see if I could fix them. That meant testing components one by one to track down the actual issue, then carefully taking each console apart (ribbon cables are way more fragile than I expected) and swapping in working parts from other broken units to end up with fewer, fully working consoles. It was slow, kind of tedious work, but I learned a lot about actually diagnosing hardware instead of just guessing, and I got a lot more patient doing detailed work with tiny parts.