I think it's the only project you've kept Did Did it actually turn out and actually work? Oh, yeah, it worked. It had a nine volt battery sticking out the front. Now remember that project? It actually used to batteries? Yeah, it was very ghetto. Like I took an Atari 2600 and hacked it up and tried to make it smaller. And I started doing like hacking video game consoles. And I didn't really revisit it until I was like, almost in my mid 20s. But then I kind of I kind of got away from it for most of my teenage years. Yeah, so I was into that when I was a kid like wiring LEDs, and I would stick like LEDs into electrical outlets and watch them smoke and stuff. It's in pretty good shape for something that a six year old dragged around. I still have it by the way, it's in my shop and prototype with it. I had like those Radio Shack electronic kits, the little wires with springs and stuff. Well, my background I educational work background was in graphic arts actually, as far as hacking money electronics goes, that was something I was interested in as a kid. So Ben, um, how do you get into hacking and modding and stuff like that? Electronics in general? Yeah. It's almost as successful as people who do videos of unboxing products on their couch while complaining about Batman v Superman. He's the host of element 14, The Ben Heck Show which is a popular YouTube show for hackers and makers and enthusiast of electronics and all kinds of interesting things. And just make note that Benjamin HC HC Hecker Dorn Am I pronouncing that correctly hack I don't know if you can actually do anything with it. Like as a VR thing, you know, because VR is quote unquote hot right now. I actually want to do an episode where we do a tear down on one of those and see what's in it, and then try to improve it as much as possible. Was that was even before the Virtual Boy.

This was this was the Oculus, the pre Oculus. Hmm, this was long before the Oculus Rift. And the Mall of America in Minneapolis was one of the places where you could play it. And it was kind of a big thing back in like 92 or 93. Well, Dactyl nightmare was this VR game where two people put on headsets and had to fight terror attack tools. That was where they had the first Dactyl nightmare VR demonstration back in the early 90s. I was there when I was like 17 when it first opened in the 92 or 93. It's also where Prince's from Mall of America is pretty cool. Is that? Where the Mall of America is that? People are like what, but everyone knows where Minneapolis is? Right? People? Most Americans should know. Okay, that should be enough information for anyone to figure out where it is. Birchwood, Wisconsin, which is by Eau Claire, which is east of Minneapolis.

It's my friend Parker, whom you know, of course, and Chris, and we're in northern Wisconsin on a fishing trip.

And now I'm on another vacation, another podcast. You know, last time I took a vacation earlier this year. I am your guest today, Ben hack.ДЄnd we're your hosts, Stephen Craig and Parker Dillman. Hello, and welcome back to the macro fab engineering podcast.

A clone of the Apollo Guidance computer, the computer that brought astronauts to the moon and back, has been built by John Pultorak.

Mega Processor вЂ“ A massive, discrete-level processor designed by James Newman which uses over 42,000 transistors is finally complete.

Adafruit recently had an interview with Matt Berggren, the director of Autodesk circuits, to talk about the future of Eagle.

We determined that the Parallax Propeller utilizes the Von Neumann architecture as opposed to the Harvard architectureВ for its program memory.

This control system is used in the AmericaвЂ™s most haunted pinball maching made by Spooky Pinball.

Pinheck System вЂ“ Parker and Ben discuss in detail the design of the Pinheck Pinball System.

Parker and Ben tell the story of how they met at the Midwest Gaming Classic.

SNES Star Fox Voices вЂ“ Ben shows us his excellent talent of emulating the voices of the characters from the Super Nintendo Star Fox game.

The Ben Heck show has a tear downВ of the device.

Sony/Nintendo Console вЂ“ Before Sony created the Playstation, they had partnered with Nintendo to create a SNES console.

Dactyl Nightmare вЂ“ One of the first demonstrationsВ of virtual reality used in a video gameВ at the mall of America in the early 90s.

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