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ben heck is an old dweeb on u-tub who prototypes cool gadgets including portable-ized classic consoles. light on the awkward comedy, no lame gimmicks, just an old nerd and his DIY electronic projects. in this video he's trying to fix a rare or one of a kind sony playstation/snes combo console. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug-CyGXMabg
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Sep 6, 2016 19:49
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i love this guy too he always keeps it real and retro. He gives his audience credit for knowing whats up and whats hot in the retro gaming news business. lets give him a like and subscribe to show support for a fun guy who really knows his stuff! (did not click)
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Sep 6, 2016 19:53
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how could you know those things about the ben heck show if you didn't click?????
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Sep 6, 2016 19:57
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I recently saw this YouTube as well. He's the guy who made all those really cool portable n64 and GameCubes before phone tech really caught up. [Sorry, you did mention this] His show is kinda weird though, it comes across like an old g4 tech tv show but uses YouTube formatting which is more favorable to less strictly structured scripts. For those who didn't click or don't know, Ben got his grubby mitts on what is likely the only prototype model of the original PlayStation when Sony and Nintendo were gonna make it together. It's basically a super Nintendo with a CD drive. He cracks it open and figures out it must've been purposefully demodded so he cinches it back together and gets the sound to work again. ziasquinn fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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Sep 6, 2016 20:07
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oh ya i remember reading his website back in like 2003 when modding the dreamcast was stil la thing
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Sep 6, 2016 20:12
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scott zoloft posted:how could you know those things about the ben heck show if you didn't click????? a youtube thumbnail is worth a thousand words
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Sep 6, 2016 20:14
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ben heck is a bit of a poseur he never really invents anything he just cuts it up and solders it back together in a new case back in the day he talked a lot of poo poo about dudes in the hacker community (that actually reverse engineered and emulated various video game consoles) and made kind of an rear end of himself what was the "girl hacker" who invented the commodore 64 in a stick thing? she got a lot of similar hype - then i watched her youtube show and it was unimpressive big clive and eevblog are the only youtube channels with actual electronics guys I think e: photonicinduction is cool but he is more about blowing stuff up and not so much educational
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Sep 6, 2016 20:27
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yeah he didn't strike me as someone who's dumping firmwares by probing memory buses, but i do enjoy his chop and resolder projects.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:35
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why would you need to mod the dreamcast it didn't have any copy protection you can just burn games to CDs all you want straight out of the box.
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Sep 6, 2016 21:11
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:why would you need to mod the dreamcast it didn't have any copy protection you can just burn games to CDs all you want straight out of the box. there was a region mod (solder the jumper that says jpn/eu) that let you play imports way before utopia released their boot cd and kickstarted the "scene" also various video mods
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Sep 6, 2016 21:12
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http://devcast.dcemulation.org/gallery/gallery2.php mines the one with the spitfire stickers
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Sep 6, 2016 22:07
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i watch ben hell cause i'm hardcore
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Sep 6, 2016 22:13
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ben heck is both the mythbusters guys smushed together
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Sep 6, 2016 22:25
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bring back old gbs posted:ben heck is both the mythbusters guys smushed together Lol this is a thought I had that hadn't crystallized
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Sep 7, 2016 01:37
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The teardowns are cool and good from a nerdy standpoint just because of his incredibly knowledge base, the goofy projects are less interesting but still pretty dope. Felix is the fuckin man though.
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Sep 7, 2016 01:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoGHKe7Fr_g This is the only thing that I care about that's from Ben Heck P.S. just skip to 13:00 mark Napolean Bonerfarts fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Sep 7, 2016 |
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Sep 7, 2016 01:39
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His spring-loaded "soldering gauntlet" is one of the coolest things I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_J2_uI8kyE
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Sep 7, 2016 01:41
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I bought Ben Heck's first book a long time ago and it's kinda fun. It has all kinds of information and steps on making consoles portable. He goes into detail on testing components and removing useless parts and it's very helpful. Then there's always a step like, "use your CNC machine to make a custom case" with no further details. The jump from using a simple multimeter and soldering iron to mastering a $50k machine is pretty jarring.
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Sep 7, 2016 01:48
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I thought this was a thread about bullying Ben Affleck tbqh
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Sep 7, 2016 02:24
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I like the the content of his videos but i hate his jokes and the intro and the skits but that's youtube for you
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Sep 7, 2016 02:51
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SpaceAceJase posted:I like the the content of his videos but i hate his jokes and the intro and the skits but that's youtube for you i think they work because he's old and looks lame as hell
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Sep 7, 2016 13:17
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gargle chome posted:http://devcast.dcemulation.org/gallery/gallery2.php mines the one with the spitfire stickers Posted by Alexis KoRn I think it's funny his show is sponsored by Element14 now
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Sep 7, 2016 14:35
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For someone who constantly talks about getting into electronics via design, he is a really uninspired designer. All the original cases he makes look identical, and totally fail to evoke the spirit of the thing he's modding, and he never tries to experiment with or improve interaction. His projects are mostly a stack of near identical boxes with flat laser cut faceplates with those gimpy little switches.
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Sep 7, 2016 14:51
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chaosbreather posted:For someone who constantly talks about getting into electronics via design, he is a really uninspired designer. All the original cases he makes look identical, and totally fail to evoke the spirit of the thing he's modding, and he never tries to experiment with or improve interaction. His projects are mostly a stack of near identical boxes with flat laser cut faceplates with those gimpy little switches. There's a 3-part episode where he makes a ps3 / xbox 360 / WiiU combined box, out of wood, and he has several problems like getting a cd tray to open and other stuff that he mentions while building it. In the finale episode he finally tests it, and all he shows is him playing Arkham Knight on the Xbox 360, he doesn't verify whether the WiiU or the PS3 work and I'm pretty sure its because they don't, also since the case is wood it probably overheats and warps the wood. So basically, he's not the best engineer, he should change his name to Ben Hack!
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Sep 7, 2016 17:05
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Before the advent of yootoob his big thing was making portable versions of every console, they were pretty cool IIRC his last one was a 360 laptop
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Sep 7, 2016 17:08
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Yeah, his EE skills aren't super duper, but as someone who spent hours in high school playing fighting games by the lockers on stuff like this:  and  I always drooled over some of his laptop-style creations.
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Sep 7, 2016 17:40
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He made a guitar for a guy with one arm and a bunch of accessibility controllers. Those are pretty feel good. Needs to clear his throat more. Maybe that's me being an intolerant rear end but it makes headphone watching a challenge. EEVBlog and Great Scott! are also pretty good electronics channels. Bill Barber posted:Felix is the fuckin man though.
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Sep 7, 2016 20:06
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felix and newer lady assistant are pretty good looking. makes ben look like even more of a cave troll than he used to.
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Sep 7, 2016 20:41
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i like when felix glumly explains what menial poo poo he's been tasked with by ben, while looking visibly irritated that he's using his engineering background to be a youtube sidekick.
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Sep 7, 2016 20:51
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Felix designed a bridge that collapsed and killed 50 school children and a truck load of puppies. He can only legally practice engineering on youtube.
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Sep 7, 2016 20:57
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I'm gonna pretend that's true
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Sep 11, 2016 19:26
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lol i have an irl friend named ben heck, weird
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Sep 11, 2016 20:16
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I love poo poo like this, so thanks! Sub'd! Rated 5!
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Sep 11, 2016 20:34
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Someone posted this in the tech relics thread and it's way cooler than heck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Y146v8HxE
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Sep 11, 2016 21:02
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Someone posted this in the tech relics thread and it's way cooler than heck These are awesome but somehow I don't think I could ever make anything even close to that myself.
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Sep 11, 2016 21:05
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does he still make those supid "portable" consoles that weigh like fifty pounds, are 18" square, and have a battery life of like eleven minutes? because what the world really needs is a "portable" neo geo.
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Sep 11, 2016 21:11
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Pawn 17 posted:These are awesome but somehow I don't think I could ever make anything even close to that myself. Honestly the fact he makes all the fasteners by hand is the most crazy part
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