The space probe “New Horizons” recently reached Pluto and snapped some pictures of the dwarf planet, partly thanks to the same CPU that powered the original PlayStation consoles.
Put into PlayStation consoles back in 1994, the MIPS R3000 CPU was repurposed by NASA in 2006 to allow them to guide the New Horizons space probe to Pluto. The CPU allows the probe to work its thrusters,…
