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"Connect with The Ben Heck Show" is Live!

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Recently we launched a new interactive space for The Ben Heck Show. Connect with The Ben Heck Show is a new space on our site that is exclusively devoted to you. We want to hear your new show ideas, discuss topics of interest to you, and show our appreciation for you by launching regular giveaways.  This is the place to go whenever you have a question for Ben, Karen, or Felix. You can also view questions asked by other viewers, contribute to discussion threads, and connect with other members of the community.

 

Have an idea for a new build for the Ben Heck Show?  The Ben Heck Show wants to hear your ideas.  When you submit a build idea for a show, your idea is visible to other community members.  You can also view other ideas for community members, support build ideas you would like to see by hitting like, and build on other people’s ideas to come up with ideas on your own. Creating a stimulating environment that encourages members to share, express, and come up with new ideas helps to keep the community strong.

 

The Ben Heck Show is only as strong as the community that supports the show.  As a token of our appreciation, we’ll be giving away Ben Heck Show t-shirts for the top 5 build suggestions.  Watch videos of Ben, Karen, and Felix discussing your build ideas by clicking on Top Build Suggestions on the top banner. You will also have the chance to win builds from previous episodes with our giveaway contests.

 

You’re the most important member of the Ben Heck team.  If you have any suggestions on how we can improve your Ben Heck Show experience let us know by commenting below.

 

Thanks again, for your support of The Ben Heck Show.  We look forward to connecting with each and every one of you.

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  • I've only just discovered this channel on YouTube, I really am enjoying it and wish I'd found it earlier. I'm 69 and I'm a retired teacher of Craft, Design and Technology trained at Middlesex University, England. My last project was to take a team from Science Skills High School, Brooklyn to the finals of the F.I.R.S.T competition at Disneyworld, I think that was 2001.

     

    I learned to program Basic on a Sinclair Spectrum a machine I really liked and am now running BASin on this PC.  There's a hell of a lot more I'd like to say but better keep this short.

     

    I'm a novice at computers and electronics, any experience of the latter gained from one of my many hobbies, model railways. In fact my interest in this general area was reawakened by my wondering whether I could build a better control system than Lionels which I can't afford anyway since I have to live on a low fixed income which rules out a lot of possibilities but I was always good at junkshop engineering.

     

    My very limited electronic experience ended with discrete components and electro mechanical switches (I love electromagnetic relays!), I have only the vaguest idea of how a transistor works and solid state is just way past me, okay not quite but effectively I'm an ignoramus.

     

    My son was a navy E.E doing radar on an Aegis ship and he wants me to get to know the Raspberry Pi as he's sick of hearing about the wonders of the Zilog Z80!  I, for my part would love the ZXSpectrum Next if it ever gets built for sale. So i wondered if i could figure out how to build a machine that had the advantages of both and fully portable with the ability to drive small robotics devices controlled via its Basic (preferably or something as helpful and user friendly) perhaps using something like the Sinclair edge connector that was attached to the main bus or maybe with some more modern form of output port allowing more lines and more flexibility. My son assures me that the Raspberry Pi is the 21st century Spectrum and can do a whole lot more yet remains low cost, easy to use  and just all round wonderful!

     

    Hope that introduction was useful and perhaps you might consider a project such as this? I doubt i could manage on my own and Daniels far away from me here in the sticks of VA's Eastern Shore.

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  • I've only just discovered this channel on YouTube, I really am enjoying it and wish I'd found it earlier. I'm 69 and I'm a retired teacher of Craft, Design and Technology trained at Middlesex University, England. My last project was to take a team from Science Skills High School, Brooklyn to the finals of the F.I.R.S.T competition at Disneyworld, I think that was 2001.

     

    I learned to program Basic on a Sinclair Spectrum a machine I really liked and am now running BASin on this PC.  There's a hell of a lot more I'd like to say but better keep this short.

     

    I'm a novice at computers and electronics, any experience of the latter gained from one of my many hobbies, model railways. In fact my interest in this general area was reawakened by my wondering whether I could build a better control system than Lionels which I can't afford anyway since I have to live on a low fixed income which rules out a lot of possibilities but I was always good at junkshop engineering.

     

    My very limited electronic experience ended with discrete components and electro mechanical switches (I love electromagnetic relays!), I have only the vaguest idea of how a transistor works and solid state is just way past me, okay not quite but effectively I'm an ignoramus.

     

    My son was a navy E.E doing radar on an Aegis ship and he wants me to get to know the Raspberry Pi as he's sick of hearing about the wonders of the Zilog Z80!  I, for my part would love the ZXSpectrum Next if it ever gets built for sale. So i wondered if i could figure out how to build a machine that had the advantages of both and fully portable with the ability to drive small robotics devices controlled via its Basic (preferably or something as helpful and user friendly) perhaps using something like the Sinclair edge connector that was attached to the main bus or maybe with some more modern form of output port allowing more lines and more flexibility. My son assures me that the Raspberry Pi is the 21st century Spectrum and can do a whole lot more yet remains low cost, easy to use  and just all round wonderful!

     

    Hope that introduction was useful and perhaps you might consider a project such as this? I doubt i could manage on my own and Daniels far away from me here in the sticks of VA's Eastern Shore.

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