To date, the Nintendo Wii was still impossible to buy. Aaron wanted one, so he did the next best thing. He got hold of a rental unit and reverse engineered it. Aaron’s version looked like a pig, but it worked.

Then he took it a step further. Aaron stacked processors and tweaked firmware until the pig flew. His console clocked 215% faster than Nintendo’s, and the controllers had twice the precision and range.

Soon, people learned about Aaron’s homemade “Uus,â€? and wanted one of their own. He knew, however, that he couldn’t legally build and sell the units. So he did the next best thing. For a fee, he emailed step by step instructions for people to build their own Uus. His emails were untraceable and set so that as each step was completed the customer clicked a button on the email, simultaneously sending the next instruction and destroying the previous one. Aaron made a small fortune.

It was while checking his bank account that Aaron realized he had the solution to Henry’s processor problem all along.