The Ben Heck Show (HD)
Join master hacker, engineer, and conjurer of cool stuff Ben Heck as he tackles a new project every other week. Want to see him transform an Atari into a handheld system? Stuff an xbox into a Macbook? Construct a Gary Oldman pinball machine?
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Ben Heck's Laser Printer Salvage
Ben tears apart a broken laser printer to see what ...
Ben tears apart a broken laser printer to see what parts he can salvage from it. He finds a variety of useful items from springs to opto-interrupters and muses about how the parts can be incorporated into future projects. A heap of ABS plastic is left in
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Beyond WASD: Foot Pedals for PC Gaming
Ben takes on a viewer's idea to make foot pedals ...
Ben takes on a viewer's idea to make foot pedals to supplement the keyboard and mouse in PC gaming. He gets started by programming a Teensy to work as a human interface device. After showing the theory behind the code and a doing a test, Ben moves on to
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Bens Steampunk Persistence of Vision Display Part Three
Ben finishes building a persistence of vision display. He has ...
Ben finishes building a persistence of vision display. He has the LED panels and his home-brew PCBs functioning according to plan. Now Ben and his assistant, Felix, can get to work assembling a solid frame and finding a power source. Ben hooks up the opt
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Bens Steampunk Persistence of Vision Display Part Two
Ben continues building a persistence of vision display. In the ...
Ben continues building a persistence of vision display. In the previous episode, he designed and stuffed PCBs with LEDS and constant current LED drivers. After he tested his LED panel, he began his designs for the rotating rig that will hold it. Now he c
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Bens Steampunk Persistence of Vision Display
Ben gets to work creating what he imagines a television ...
Ben gets to work creating what he imagines a television would be in a steampunk world. This mechanical display will rotate a panel of LEDs at a very fast rate to create an illusion of solid images. After giving an overview of his ideas for the project, B
