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Announcing Three New Builds! -- Episode 279

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The Ben Heck Team announces a major change on the show after receiving a lot of interest from community members who would like to see more detail in each episode and longer term builds.  By focusing on three long term builds they can give community members what they want to see, a more robust design and detail build.  In this episode you’ll see which builds they will be focusing on over the course of the next year and set the stage for their next major challenge in the evolution of the show.

 

Great Glue Gun Episode

Hackmanji Episode

Teensy Pinball Portable Episode

Over the next year the Ben Heck Team will be focusing on three long term builds.  Two were chosen by Ben while a third was chosen by community members by a poll.

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  • Originally posted this in the wrong thread I guess.

    This is in reference to the hackmunji project.

     

    First for names of ports, It should likely be something along the lines of Output, Input, and Result.

     

    You guys were talking about in the video moving the LEDs to one side of the board, however it is my understanding that only some of the outputs are active at a given time.. Correct?

    This would cause a huge mental disconnect and likely add more confusion. You are shrinking the board anyways, why not build a light ring around the output and input ports. This would increase the visibility of them and likely no longer require scanning. If it still isn't enough try moving them to the short side (top and bottom currently), I think that would be more than enough. Having the LEDs removed from the port that they represent just seems like a bad idea.

    When talking about light ring, I am thinking along the lines of the Xbox ring of light, but obviously much smaller scale. I have even seen these on a device before I just can't think what it was.

    I just seen post above about using RGB to get rid of 1 set of leds and I think this fits perfectly into this idea.

     

    in the thread I posted in had brought up old telecom switchboard ports/wires as a good idea instead of banana plugs, but no clue if they still are cost effective being their primary use is dead.

    If those are a dead end you likely could look at what multi-meters and other testing equipment use to connect the leads to the device. I have no idea the longevity of them, but they for sure are cheap.

    For longevity reasons there are few connectors that are designed for such frequent plugging and unplugging in a package that would fit the scale of this project.

    If neither of these other options work I think you just have to look at what banana plugs on the cheap side are in bulk orders. Skimping here would seem like a really bad idea and stress what is already the most common failure point.

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  • Originally posted this in the wrong thread I guess.

    This is in reference to the hackmunji project.

     

    First for names of ports, It should likely be something along the lines of Output, Input, and Result.

     

    You guys were talking about in the video moving the LEDs to one side of the board, however it is my understanding that only some of the outputs are active at a given time.. Correct?

    This would cause a huge mental disconnect and likely add more confusion. You are shrinking the board anyways, why not build a light ring around the output and input ports. This would increase the visibility of them and likely no longer require scanning. If it still isn't enough try moving them to the short side (top and bottom currently), I think that would be more than enough. Having the LEDs removed from the port that they represent just seems like a bad idea.

    When talking about light ring, I am thinking along the lines of the Xbox ring of light, but obviously much smaller scale. I have even seen these on a device before I just can't think what it was.

    I just seen post above about using RGB to get rid of 1 set of leds and I think this fits perfectly into this idea.

     

    in the thread I posted in had brought up old telecom switchboard ports/wires as a good idea instead of banana plugs, but no clue if they still are cost effective being their primary use is dead.

    If those are a dead end you likely could look at what multi-meters and other testing equipment use to connect the leads to the device. I have no idea the longevity of them, but they for sure are cheap.

    For longevity reasons there are few connectors that are designed for such frequent plugging and unplugging in a package that would fit the scale of this project.

    If neither of these other options work I think you just have to look at what banana plugs on the cheap side are in bulk orders. Skimping here would seem like a really bad idea and stress what is already the most common failure point.

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