Colecovision portable

posted Jan 1st 2006 12:01am by Eliot Phillips
filed under: portable video hacks

colecovision

Ben Heckendorn has been busy this holiday season. His latest project is cramming the guts of a Colecovision into a portable case. The project was commissioned, otherwise he probably wouldn’t have tackled it. The first bit of weirdness he found was the use of +12V, +5V, -5V lines to power the console. To get the board to fit in a smaller space he “flattened” it, remounting the components so they have a lower profile. The screen and case are standard issue Ben Heck, which he admits he can pretty much build with his eyes closed now. All told, it still looks great, but Ben says he isn’t going to be repeating this project any time soon because of the complexity involved.

[thanks HK-47]

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good mod! well done.

I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST COMMENT FOR 2006!!!

Posted at 12:12 am on Jan 1st, 2006 by bumsk

good mod! well done.

I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST COMMENT FOR 2006!!!

Posted at 12:35 am on Jan 1st, 2006 by bumsk

12:01 good job

Posted at 12:46 am on Jan 1st, 2006 by Bob

Excellent! It’s about time he did this wonderful machine. Too bad he won’t do another; I think an ADAM portable in the style of his Atari 800 laptop would be sufficiently awesome.

Posted at 3:39 am on Jan 1st, 2006 by ravuya

Amazing hack, I can only imagine the number of hours it took.

Posted at 4:44 am on Jan 1st, 2006 by Alan

the picture of the wiring half way down is amazing. nice job.

Posted at 5:49 am on Jan 1st, 2006 by Giles

re-mounting components is a pain in the arse, but you can’t argue with the incredible results!
Well done!

Posted at 4:28 pm on Jan 1st, 2006 by strider_mt2k

This is a very good mod. The end results were fabulous and it looks very professionally made. Very nice job with this one.

Posted at 7:51 pm on Jan 1st, 2006 by Kazuko

I wonder how much it cost the person that bought it. That truely is amazing though. He is my god.

Posted at 11:19 pm on Jan 1st, 2006 by 0x1d3

Very nice! Makes me want to finish my N64 one more now!

Posted at 5:37 pm on Jan 3rd, 2006 by usbcd36

awsome mod. well done mate!

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