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Ben Heck: Interview with a Mod God

Ben Heck: Interview with a Mod God

If you’ve been following Technabob for a while, you know we have mad love for the console modding and hackery of Benjamin Heckendorn (aka “Ben Heck”). So I was thrilled to have…

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Ben Heck Builds PS3 Wii U Xbox 360 Combo System

Ben Heck Builds PS3 Wii U Xbox 360 Combo System

I’ve been waiting a very long time for somebody to build a single game system which could play all of today’s console games. Well that day is today – courtesy of master…

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Ben Heck’s Naughty or Nice Meter Helps Keep Kids in Line. If They Still Believe in Santa.

Ben Heck’s Naughty or Nice Meter Helps Keep Kids in Line. If They Still Believe in Santa.

Master modder Ben Heck recently finished a Holiday hack that could help the young ones stay behaved. I say could because as we all know how utterly wild these creatures known as…

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Ben Heck Analog WASD Keyboard Mod: Because You Can’t Type With a Joystick

Ben Heck Analog WASD Keyboard Mod: Because You Can’t Type With a Joystick

Modder Ben Heck has removed one of the few remaining advantages of videogame consoles over the PC master race: the analog stick. Heck sacrificed an Xbox 360 controller to make the W,…

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Ben Heck Shows You How to Build an Xbox 360 Laptop

Ben Heck Shows You How to Build an Xbox 360 Laptop

I lack any of the skills you need to make cool mods and DIY projects of just about any type. That is certainly not true when it comes to modder Ben Heck.…

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Ben Heck’s Bionic Sunglasses Automatically Make You Look Cool When It’s Bright

Ben Heck’s Bionic Sunglasses Automatically Make You Look Cool When It’s Bright

If you watch Ben Heck’s online show you’ll notice that the master modder has branched out beyond the gaming mods that made him famous. For his latest episode, Heck shows us how…

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Ben Heck’s BASIC Pocket PC: The Franken-Computer

Ben Heck’s BASIC Pocket PC: The Franken-Computer

Ben Heck is well known as a modder extraordinaire, and this time he doesn’t let anyone down by cobbling together a pocket PC from an array of harvested parts, including a chatpad…

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Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi Keyboard Computer: BBC Micro-inspired, DIY All the Way

Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi Keyboard Computer: BBC Micro-inspired, DIY All the Way

Do you love 80s computer tech? Well then you’ll love Ben Heck’s BBC Micro-inspired Raspberry Pi keyboard computer. He managed to put the $35 DIY Raspberry Pi computer into a nice keyboard…

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Glowing Toilet Light is Perfect for the Wee Hours of the Night

Glowing Toilet Light is Perfect for the Wee Hours of the Night

I never go into the bathroom upstairs at my house. That’s the bathroom my son uses, and he can’t aim. If he goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night,…

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Xbox 360 Controller Hot Pocket Dispenser: Another First World Problem Solved

Xbox 360 Controller Hot Pocket Dispenser: Another First World Problem Solved

You’re in the middle of an intense gaming session, talking to each NPC you meet, hoping to stumble upon a line or a glitch that you can turn into a meme, when…

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Ben Heck Creates Xbox 360 Automatic Disc Changer

Ben Heck Creates Xbox 360 Automatic Disc Changer

When I had more than one person over playing video games as a kid we always ended up in an argument about who would change the video game when we wanted to…

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Ben Heck Makes Motion Detecting Hand Sanitizer: No, He Didn’t Use a Kinect

Ben Heck Makes Motion Detecting Hand Sanitizer: No, He Didn’t Use a Kinect

Ben Heck may have earned fame and fortune (and possibly love) by creating custom video game devices, but that doesn’t mean that that’s all he’s good for. In the latest episode of…

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Xbox 2600: Ben Heck Builds Atari-Themed Xbox 360 Laptop

Xbox 2600: Ben Heck Builds Atari-Themed Xbox 360 Laptop

Atari will be re-releasing some of their classic games on Xbox Live, and to help promote it they’ve asked modder Ben Heck to create an Atari-inspired Xbox 360 laptop. At first I…

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Build a DIY Hand-Cranked USB Charger

Build a DIY Hand-Cranked USB Charger

If your phone dies in the woods, how do you charge it? Sure, you can bring a backup battery, but what if you’re out there for an extended period of time? You…

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Ben Heck Ruggedized PS3 Is Ready to Go to War

Ben Heck Ruggedized PS3 Is Ready to Go to War

Out of all the things that he’s known for in the gadget world, modder Ben Heck is most famous for his unique specialty – making portable versions of current video game consoles.…

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Ben Heck’s Coach Section Laptop Lets You Compute While Flying

Ben Heck’s Coach Section Laptop Lets You Compute While Flying

Created for the latest episode of The Ben Heck Show, the modder created yet another ingenious design, a laptop with a screen optimized for flying in a in the cramped cabin of…

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