A lot of time has passed since The Ben Heck Show was renamed to 'element14 presents' - and in that time we still have a lot of avid fans of Ben Heck viewing the old episodes, and finding "The Ben Heck Show" across the internet,...
I apologise if this is the wrong place to post this but I'm need of assistance. My brother was hurt really bad at work. He hit his head on a high voltage power line. It blew a hole in his head and He lost his left hand and most the function In his ri...
I really enjoyed watching the Apple 1 Laptop build! But I thought it would be cool to see it do more than "HELLO WORLD" I thought a good idea would be to make a mini external floppy drive, but using an SD card instead of a floppy disc (the...
Hello once again folks – after a VERY long time, my next mod is ready!Some people will remember me from my Radica mods HERE:viewtopic.php?f=58&t=17720viewtopic.php?f=58&t=1517Anyways onto the meat-and-potatoes of this article...Original forum...
You may have heard of the Game Boy Zero, but instead of building a standard game boy zero, try to fit as many features as you can, into the original DMG gameboy shell! Essentially it uses a Pi Zero, powerboost 1000c, TFT composite lcd, etc. What...
i kniw youve done system combos in the past, but what if you made a magic playstation box, that could play ps1, 2, 3, AND 4 games?! I was thinking that you could either use an original fat ps3, which plays all the first 3 playstation generation games...
i kniw youve done system combos in the past, but what if you made a magic playstation box, that could play ps1, 2, 3, AND 4 games?! I was thinking that you could either use an original fat ps3, which plays all the first 3 playstation generation games...
I would love to see a TIS-100 inspired physical machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIS-100 * A small display over each of the nine cores to show the code.* A larger display to show the input stack and outputs.* The ability to reprogram...
Hi, I have just found out about you having given up using any games console since the N64. I want to buy or at least find out how I could get my hand on one of your Xbox one controllers I am a left arm amputee following a traffic ac...
Hi, I have just found out about you having given up using any games console since the N64. I want to buy or at least find out how I could get my hand on one of your Xbox one controllers I am a left arm amputee following a traffic ac...
I come up with a design that could work out for the logic game, it solves both splits output into multiple and false connections (e.g. connect an output to another output).The idea is to have a directional wire that can only go from an output to an i...
Throughout his time on element14, Ben has made a habit of generously gifting his completed builds to community members. His latest random act of kindness was to give cacope a medication reminder device to make his busy mornings a little easier. You'v...
Hello, I hope this is the right place to post things like this. I drafted an email last year that I intended to send to you but didn't know where to send it, then got busy with coursework etc., but I finally thought I'd send you my idea and s...
Ben Hecks Lunchbox Dev Kit Remixed by MAYER MAKES[Scrolle runter um die deutsche Version zu lesen / Scroll down to read the german version] Have you ever wanted to recreate one of Ben Heck‘s projects in your own style?I certainly did, and when...
Hey Ben I was recently going through some of my old stuff and I came across my sega game gear and tv tuner (broken by the way) but it got me thinking that you and your awesome tech wisdom could make the tv tuner that can only pick up analog signals r...
www.youtube.com/watch When I attended Eurogamer Expo last year, there was a great talk with Shuhei Yoshida, who gave an interview where he mentions involvement with Nintendo in the early days. Though he doesn't necessarily give a direct nod to t...
Electronic Jungle was crowned this years’ overall winning team for Music Tech Fest Berlin’s ‘element14 Hack Camp’. element14 proudly sponsored this year’s event hosted in Berlin at the internationally renowned Funkhaus with thousands of pounds o...
In the Power Glove Teardown episode, Ben turned the power glove into a "functioning" computer mouse. Here are the results of us trying to draw in MS Paint using the glove.Here's Ben's drawing. I think he was going for Sonic the Hedgehog. I'm not real...
Ben's a pretty good artist. He can whip this kinda stuff up in minutes. Here are some concepts for the sci-fi movie prop we built for this week's episode.