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Projects I Would Do in a Heartbeat (Time permitting)

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Some of you may have seen my last post and thought it meant I was sick of building everything. Not true, I’m just sick of being asked for the same 3 things over and over. As far as not doing any more movies, I should clarify – not making any more with my own money. I’m glad many of you enjoyed Port Washington but I’d really enjoy having the money it cost back in my pocket.

As a counterpoint, here’s a list of project ideas I would enjoy trying:

  • Custom pinball machine – I’ve been planning one for 2 years but have never had the time or money, at the same time. Problem is I’d want to keep it. If you listen to our podcasts you’ve probably heard about this project.
  • Domestic automatic can crusher – Would be the coolest thing ever.
  • Alternative fuel car of the future – I’ve always wanted to build a car, I think that would be quite the challenge. It would have to be sporty and have a cool stereo however. (No Sparkomatics) The Tesla thing is cool but it’s not really a “people’s car”.
  • Hub-based main house PC / Xbox 360 / PS3 / furnace – Hey, those things put out a lot of heat!
  • Mass-produced single-handed game controllers – As mentioned before.
  • A robot.
  • Lead singer in a country music band – Much more interesting than an N64 portable.
  • Apple ][ portable – It’s shocking that I’ve only been asked about this maybe once in 7 years.
  • Design consultation work -If your company is working on a product, especially game related, and would like my input, please contact me to discuss.

So there you go – the kinds of projects I am interested in these days. Now I must get back to this new laptop…

Articles, Video Games

Another interview for you all

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Recently I did an interview for a magazine, and there’s a full version of it here.

Sometimes people have noted that I don’t have links to every interview I do. Is this something people would like to see? Honestly I only post about half of them, I figure they have their own channels for distribution. Discuss!

What I’d really like to do is get some interviews for my podcast… Anyone famous out there read my site and want to come on over Skype for 2o minutes or so? I promise to ask interesting questions since I am fully aware of what it feels like to be asked the same 8 things over and over again. Email me!

In other news, I’ll have a new How-To on Engadget this week and, if all goes well, there should be a new portable before the end of February (the most stylish one yet, I promise)

Articles, Video Games

Projects and article lists

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OK over on the right under “Quick Links” you can now click on “Browse all projects” and “See all articles” to bring up a list of, well, guess. Bingo.

I’d like to do it this way because otherwise the sidebar will be filled with even more clutter. Perhaps I’ll get some drop-link action going in the main header, but this will do for now.

Enjoy!

Articles, Video Games

New Book Section

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As I continue to work on the new site after last week’s “rush ‘o doom” I have added in the “Hacking Videogame Consoles” book section again. You can get to it using the link on the top over to the right.

It has all the content and links as the old site, plus the automatic eBay search links, but done up in the new format, using WordPress to manage the pages. I’m contemplating using WordPress pages to catalog ALL the old stories (right now they’re on the site in the old structure, you can find a partial list here or use the Search feature to find the article and link), but that will take me awhile. But hey, for now, if you’re new to the site you could type in a random system in Search and see if I’ve ever done it!

On the old site there was a list of all projects in the side column. I didn’t do that this time because I thought it looked a bit messy. But is this what people would prefer? I also considered a single page, linked to as “Browse Projects”, that contains all the projects in a list. Same for movies, podcasts, etc. That’d work, but it kind of defeats the purpose of a lot of the easy WordPress features.

I’m open to suggestion, email me! Or comment, I guess we can do that now too.

Articles

Welcome to the new Benheck.com!

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As you can see the benheck.com site has undergone a major facelift. The main news section, what you are looking at now, runs off WordPress and has much more functionality for our viewers/listeners, including RSS feeds and a commenting system.

Every post I’ve ever done has been put into the database, allowing you to look back as far as December of 2000! There were a few months older than that (the *original* GeoCities site) but I can’t find the files. No big loss, nothing really happened until December anyway.

The DNS changed before I was ready, so I’m having to rebuild a few things (including getting the forum data in the right place) Stay tuned, we’ll get it going!

Forums are now up, sorry it took so long, I basically made a fairly dumb mistake. Or a series of them. Thanks to Jason Jones for knocking me upside the head and setting it all straight!