Ben Heck's Hand Soldered Portable Atari 2600 Episode -- Episode 236

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In a previous episode Ben hand wired an Atari 2600, in this episode he finishes the job by making it portable. Let's get started!

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makerkaren over 7 years ago in reply to lotec25

Check these out. Let me know if anything is missing. https://github.com/thebenheckshow/236-tbhs-atari-portable
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makerkaren over 7 years ago in reply to lotec25

I'll see what I can do. If Ben still has them in the cloud we can probably upload them to GitHub.
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lotec25 over 7 years ago

Can we get the files up loaded for the case? Nothing in the file but the front panel.

thanks
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pgeiger over 7 years ago in reply to teblunde@gmail.com

Hey!

Schematics for the hardware were in episode 226.
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teblunde@gmail.com over 8 years ago

Damn, bought the components to follow along with the build but can't do much without the schematics. I know they aren't cool, tv-friendly and all that... but I watch the show to learn and then you need them.

Otherwise, great show!
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mshields over 8 years ago in reply to makerkaren

Thanks
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makerkaren over 8 years ago in reply to mshields

I'll see what I can do. Ben's .stl files are frequently stored in a cloud so we don't always remember to export them and put them in the directory to be uploaded to github. Thanks for pointing out they were missing. Keep asking for files and we'll get them posted!
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mshields over 8 years ago

Hi! Will the STL files for the case be put online any time soon?
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computer_engineer over 9 years ago in reply to makerkaren

Awesome work.
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makerkaren over 9 years ago

Here are some close-ups of the insides.
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