Ben Heck portable Atari 2600


Most of the time he spent on this project was probably in designing the case and hand-soldering the Atari 2600 itself, the latter of which is about a day's worth of work minimum (I think he mentioned spending a day hand-soldering the 2600 in this video or the soldering video, idk). Then he had to wait 27.5 years for the Replicators to finish printing the case, laser-cut the faceplate, test the 2600 to make sure it works (video, sound, I/O, the works), fiddle with the Battery Booster circuit, and put it all together while making adjustments on-the-fly. In no particular order, anyway.

Plus the soldering of the Atari 2600 itself, I'd say about a week, give-or-take.

EDIT: Lulzbot>Makerbot. That's the only useful thing I learned from FSF.
 
Man, whenever I see a new Ben Heck video I'm reminded of the old Ben Heck show, before it had other people in, before it had a two minute Element 14 advert in the middle, and before Ben tried to tell jokes.
 
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