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Here are some interviews with Ben Heckendorn, these are just links and are not mine, but thought neccessary to share with all you readers.

He is a very active game console hacker/moder. Not in any way related to piracy! But he will strip your game console and remake them smaller, portable and much more fun! He has no formal training in electronics but is self thought.

The reason I am writing about him is that he is one of those people who take a boring subject and turn it into creative, artistic, lovable and fun subjects. Visit his website if you are curious: www.benheck.com

He has written an excellent book:

Hacking Video Game Consoles: Turn your old video game systems into awesome new portables (ExtremeTech) from Amazon.com

Ok, so here are the interviews:

1. Hack A Day: Part 1 Podcast about 21 mins,

Part 2 Podcast about 21 mins.

2. Interview with Ben Heck - Console Hacker Extraordinaire From Racket Boy.

3. From Good Deal Games .com : http://www.gooddealgames.com/interviews/int_Ben_Heckendorn.html

Hello after a very long time. There is no particular reason I am late, but mostly laziness… usual.

Anyway, the project idea I had posted earlier is finished. Its a college project so bear with the technicality. Its a joystick in a glove form, has no base to keep it on a table, and you wear it, its a glove. Its official title is: “Design and Development of a Glove Based Joystick Input Device”. Actually, this version I made can only control 2 servo motors and is not for a PC. Future designs will be able to connect to your USB.

Here are a few images:

The Device:

The joysticks are a single pair of Analog controllers salvaged from the Playstation2. The microcontroller is Basic Stamp 2 from Parallax. This is the first version of a glove based device. The goal was to make this a Joystick that can be connected to a computer, however this model does not, its just a demo of the hardware and connects to 2 servomotors to show the flexibility of the joystick and the ADC. The remaining details can be found in the project report.

Future Ideas:

1. I can either take a commercial USB joystick and strip it, connect the inputs to my device and have a fully functional glove based joystick.

2. The more difficult method is to program a PIC32 with USB capabilities. USB- HID (Human Interface Device) protocol can be used.

Here is a ppt describing the protect:
For a full report and construction details email me: varun@crazyengineers.com