Dear Ben,
I have a perfect idea for the Ben Heck Show that I feel should also be a part your build history. I feel that this Idea would intrigue watchers of your show to see where the human race has come to where we are now.
My idea is to build the Apollo Guidance computer, The Ben Heck way of course. I am going to include some links to get your creative juices flowing. I have Long since wanted to build one of these but do not have the funds or the time and I feel this would be a perfect history lesson for all of your watchers and readers.
The Apollo Guidance computer of course as you know is the first computer to do computations to land us on the moon. There is a book out there and the link to my old blog gives an ISBN Number as well as the information on Amazon where to get the book. This is a great book to learn about the computer, function and operation. The Link to my old Blog is
http://geekazoidtech.blogspot.com/2012/05/apollo-guidance-computer-book-review.html
I also have several You Tube Videos I have saved that I am including along with this email (Links) so that maybe this would give you ideas.
I feel that this would be a good history lesson as well as be very entertaining to your viewers, it sure would be to me. I hope to see this in a future project and I would love to see it in operation. I love radical ideas just as much as you and I love to hack things apart and figure how they work. This would be a new learning experience for everyone. I am a very big aviation and space enthusiast myself so this would be very interesting to many of us out there.
Links to You Tube videos
This is a You Tube Query that I have saved for the Guidance Computer itself
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Apollo+Guidance+
Sincerely,
Dan Rivera
Owner, Geekazoidtech Consulting