Wii ripped apart

John Mahoney at Popular Science resorted to dismantling his Wii via the brute force method - leaving him with an unusable console at the end of the photo shoot entitled " Wii broke it".

Courtesy of popsci.com here are a couple of the pictures.

The motherboard with heatsink still attached:

The IBM Broadway CPU and accompanying DAAMIT Hollywood GPU beneath the heatsink:

The broken mess at the end:

Seth Fogie over at Informit.com went a step further and not only successfully opened the Wii without damaging the console, using a Triwing driver, but also had a good look within the controllers to see what magic was stored within a Wiimote.

You can check out the internals of both the Wiimote and the accompanying nunchuck accessory on this page.

Seth's walk through is much more detailed and you can see step by step how to get your console open for any internal Wii fun you can think of.

If that's not enough he also managed to film the whole process in nine minute video, which you can view here.

Happy viewing. µ

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