What were some of the difficulties that were encountered during the production of the N64 portable unit.

Judging by Ben’s unwillingness to make another, I am curious.

Posted at 2:38 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by jim

Any interest in mass production?

Posted at 3:04 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by Gary Z

when you cut off unecessary components on circuit boards, do you just cut them off while the circuit board is on and see if it stops working or do you jump the leads? What process do you use to determine what to cut and what exactly do you do?

Posted at 3:04 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by anon

Does he find anything lacking in the portable game market? And if so, what would he change?

Also, what does he think of the GP2X?

Posted at 3:05 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by mastershake916

Have you ever considered a career as a professional corporate designer/electronics’s engineer?

Posted at 3:11 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by Crash

thanks for the opportunity will!

ben: your skill in making new and unique what once were old and common is quite incredible. have you any suggestions for any aspiring engineers? books to read? devices to dismantle? practice vs theory?

many thanks,
steve

Posted at 3:16 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by steve

can i have your children?

seriously though, is there a reason you chose not to do a gamecube portable? i have heard that they are difficult but you surely can do it. their small size just begs for a conversion

Posted at 3:33 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by monster

I was going to say “interviews with the hacking big names, like ben heck, would be shiny” in the podcast feedback… 8|
My question would be, what would you like to see in the new generation of handhelds/consoles, either for the unadulterated system or for hackability? and what potential do you see for novel interface gizmos like those in the revol.. sorry, the Wii?

Posted at 6:49 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by PKM

What are your plans for the wii? With the novel new input device, portability doesn’t seem entirely plausible… So do you plan to do anything with it at all? I’m dying to know.

Posted at 7:10 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by Matt R.

First, what’s your favorite console and why?
Second, i’ll ask the same thing as David Perry, What would you do to bring the sony psp back to life, what design errors you see software and hardware wise? (i mean, such an poweful system ruined by drm and overpriced hardware)

Posted at 9:06 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by elg0nz

@8:
i was thinking of finding (or using a DS (or) Lite’s) LI-Ion battery and making a Wiimote charger, if only Ben Heck is reading this

Posted at 9:22 pm on Oct 29th, 2006 by some person

With your successes with making portable versions of home systems, have you considered making some home systems out of portables?

Posted at 2:50 am on Oct 30th, 2006 by croz

The battery you used for the PS2p: Your build story stated that the battery you used had an output of 9V. I looked it up at Wal-Mart.com, and there it says 7.2V.
Link: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=2350787

I don’t think a PS2 can run off of 7.2V, so did you have a different battery, or what?

Posted at 9:34 am on Oct 30th, 2006 by sgt_easton

What is your favourite mod so far?
Which creation of yours do you personally use the most?

Posted at 9:40 pm on Oct 30th, 2006 by Ben Hou

Can you share with us how to make a battery life indicator like the one on your PS2?

Posted at 10:06 pm on Oct 30th, 2006 by sgt_easton

Have you ever had any really ridiculous idea’s like “man building a game and watch gallery into a hamburger would be perfect?” if so what are they?

Can you do a flip? How about a handstand? A walking one? That would be rad.

Posted at 11:19 pm on Oct 30th, 2006 by mattyfu

I would really like to knwo his reasoning for even using a resivor on the x360 laptop…most of the time thye are just to look cool

Posted at 10:13 pm on Oct 31st, 2006 by weirdguy0101

What were you for Halloween?
and
Have you done any interesting modifications to things other than game systems??

Posted at 8:27 am on Nov 1st, 2006 by Pekar

Hey ben :) I’d love to see some wonderful mods to the nintendo DS. frankly there are not any out there. And if anyone can do it, its you. so when are ya going to do some :P. Good job on the 360laptop, i’d love to have one of those. It came out so clean it looked as if it was ment to be that way. Keep up all your amazing work, i can’t wait to see your next project!

Posted at 1:54 am on Apr 16th, 2007 by DSdude2007

i’ve got ps2 from my friend, and i want add hardisk to my ps2 but i don’t know how. pleeez give me the way. email me how to do it coz i don’t know everything… thank’s guyz…!!

Posted at 10:27 am on Nov 8th, 2007 by smicbng