Felix and Ben build an alternative laptop based on the Raspberry Pi, the Pi-Top! The successful Kickstarter laptop which you can build yourself. Still in its prototyping stage but nearing ready for prime-time, Felix gets his hands on yet another...
Ben Heck’s Pi Top Assembly demo
Felix and Ben build an alternative laptop based on the Raspberry Pi, the Pi-Top! The successful Kickstarter laptop which you can build yourself. Still in its prototyping stage but nearing ready for prime-time, Felix gets his hands on yet another...
As Ben and Felix continue building the Novena Open Source laptop, Felix tries to maintain his sanity while customizing a Phantom keyboard with Cherry-MX switched mechanical keys and a teensy microcontroller while Ben uses a laser cutter and CNC Route...
Scales pack a punch for detecting holiday present thieves when Ben, Felix and Karen hack apart a set of weighing scales with a PIC microcontroller and key lock to use as an alarm system, preventing cheeky people and pets from sneaking an early peak a...
No Star Wars spoilers! From the Boonta scrapyard, Ben, Felix and Karen get hacking with electronics, grinders, bearings, laser cutting and a CNC router to build their own R2D2 cooler, who wouldn't want a robot that gives you a drink when you use the...
Felix and Ben meet up with Bunnie and Sean, the creators of the open source computing platform, Novena! With the Novena laptop kit, Ben and Felix begin setting up and building an open source laptop with Linux, FPGA and any other hacks and hardware th...
Ben shows us how easy it is to use a CodeBug to participate in the global movement Hour of Code this week. Now join Ben in exploring coding concepts using a drag and drop development environment with this kid-friendly project! Visit The Ben Heck Show...
For a while now Ben and Felix have been making and selling single handed accessibility controllers. In this episode Ben will tear down the XBox One gamepad and show you how to do mods of your own, from the pin-outs to the connections for the directio...
With the release of Fallout 4 you need sustenance when wandering the wastelands. Ben mods the game controller mounted Hot Pockets dispenser build with motors and 3D Printing. Survive the Hot Pocketlypse and visit the element14 community for the p...
This week on The Ben Heck Show, Ben completes his spy gear project to stop the evil Pieface from spraying radioactive pie filling all over the world. Ben puts the finishing touches on his hidden camera lunchbox by adding the Raspberry Pi 2, a batt...
Ben begins to create spy gear to stop the evil Pieface from spraying radioactive pie filling all over the world on this week's episode of The Ben Heck Show. Ben first builds spy glasses with an integrated LCD screen. Next, Felix takes a Tech Time...