Rapberry Pi NES with working power light and power button

the on/off button is just a tactile switch nestled under the hood. I carved out a lego piece to put the button in so it would lock into the set up.

I took out a 1x4 block right in front of the clear red bricks to stash the LED/resistor, and fed the wires out one side. This puts the LED directly behind the clear red bricks so when it lights up you can see it shine through.

Cut a square out of the lego brick the size of the power button.

Wired up the power button so that it can be unplugged if the lid of the NES needs to be removed.

When installing the button it would fall back when I pushed on it, so I added a piece of another lego's wall to give resistance, then I tucked the wires into the lego piece and covered it all in hot glue.

This is where it sits on the lid of the NES. I added a few extra parts to the lid for support and hot glued them together.

When it is plugged into the pi... Putting the power button on GPIO3 (pin 5) and a ground makes it so the button can power on the pi, then you program that button to have a shutdown script.

This is the python script for the LED. You then add a line to /etc/rc.local to run it on startup. There is a slight delay between power up and the light turning on, which I'm sure could be fixed by running the script in an earlier startup process but I didn't care.

This is the script for the shutdown portion of the button, also needs to be added to /etc/rc.local (as shown below).

This is what runs these scripts on startup. All you need to add to this script is the two "sudo python...." right before "exit 0".

Original design credit and parts list:http://imgur.com/a/fQJqc
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