Life of Brian's Project List

[Life of Brian]

I've finally gotten the itch to make portables once again. This forum has really grown up in the past couple of years, and compared to the BenHeck forums now it's a happenin' place! I thought I'd post a bazillion links and sample pictures of all my past finished projects to bring myself up to speed on these forums and consolidate my work into one place, if that is okay with all of you.

My old YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/joedog86
My new/current YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/BrianHenderson86

In reverse chronological order:

This doesn't really count as a "project", but it's funny as Heck I pranked my brother Sean.


Airsoft Machine Gun RC Car: http://www.instructables.com/id/Airsoft ... -Car-Hack/

Here's the full tutorial video:


The Ankle Biter: http://www.instructables.com/id/Hack-an ... h-channel/
The inevitable hilarious result of my experiments with hacking RC cars.

The Knee Blaster
A remote controlled squirt gun with a range of 30 feet. 'Nuff said.

RC Drone: http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=44114
Still working on making the perfect First Person POV RC car.


CNC SNESp's:
In my quest to streamline making SNES portables, I decided to take the Ben Heck approach and try my hand at making some cases using a laser cutter. They looked pretty, but weren't ergonomic. Got it running off of just 4 AA's, a long-time goal of mine

http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=37968
http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=40463
http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=31076

CNC SNESp Rev 3 (White/Red edition)

CNC SNESp Rev 2 (Metal/Wood edition)
Okay, so not technically a "finished product" but it looks so good I wanted to include it here.

CNC SNESp Rev 1 (Black/White edition)

boNES (A barebones Portable NES):http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=37802
It had a very snug cartridge jack! Unfortunately the danged screen died on me, but it did have a brief life as a "completed" portable. Used one of those RetroBit NES systems. I need to get another one of those...

Atari Portable: http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=23455
Used a Flashback 2, had a nice chunky retro vibe to it. Screen fit into the battery compartment of an enclosure box I had lying around.

NOACp #2:
http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=27897
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/nint ... ny-screen/
Another project of mine posted on Engadget - a real highlight of my life

The Nintendo SuperBoy (SNESp): http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php ... 1&p=378157
It won a portable building contest, and hailrazer sent me all sorts of cool prizes It was my favorite portable that I ever built, and I foolishly sold it. I wish I hadn't. Used a directional tact switch for the dpad.

The Man Himself approves

ZN-40 SNESp #2: http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=25304
Built it on commission, took forever, never built on commission again!

Yes, it could even play that game.

PSOneP: http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=22131
Not much to say about this one. I built it out of spite because I bought a similar portable from another forum member and it turned out to be a lousy piece of... stuff. Not at all what it looked like in the pictures. I thought, "Man, I could do better." And so I built this.

The Fugtendo (Fugly NOAC portable): http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=22962
Man, that thing was beyond ugly. It was... fugly. Based on the Game Grrl by ladyada - back when she was a member of the benheck forums!

A speaker on the back? Really, Brian?

Oh, okay - here's some shiny shelf liner. That's a bit better.

ZN-40 SNESp: http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=21814
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/snes ... um-member/
My first time making it onto Engadget. Sweet!

The Nintendo Stupendo: http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=17124
The beast that started it all. After failing miserably at trying to make an SNESp following the designs from Ben's book, I took the basic outline for the NES portable and added my own flair to it - and a second controller jack!

There is another whole list of false starts and dead end projects that I've worked on over these past few years, but we won't talk about those

Maybe now I'll finally get around to building a couple of N64 portables that use the LOB64 port

I just want to say that the caliber of portables showcased in these forums has totally blown me away. I hope I can help keep the good thing going that you all have going on here.

 

[Joeyjoe9876]

was wondering where you had gone to haha. Welcome to the forums! I always loved those CNC SNES.

 

[AfroLH]

Your portables are what got me into this scene.

Love them. Every last one of them.

 

[Tchay]

Words cannot express how excited I am that we have 100% more LOB on the Modretro Forums!



...

(the envision had its speakers on the back )

 

[nuke]

Woo its L.O.B!

 

[Life of Brian]

Words cannot express how excited I am that we have 100% more LOB on the Modretro Forums!

I'm currently working on a TurtleBot. It's going to have an Airsoft turret under the shell!

 

[Mario]

LOB is here, woo!

Sweet stuff. Saw the RC cars a little while back on Instructables, and I forgot to look at the name! I would have recognized it if I'd bothered to look. Nice job with those!

 

[Zero]

Oh wow, it's awesome you joined up! All your projects are just awe-inspiring.

 

[Life of Brian]

Sweet stuff. Saw the RC cars a little while back on Instructables, and I forgot to look at the name! I would have recognized it if I'd bothered to look. Nice job with those!

I was so stoked that I got featured AND made it into the weekly email update for Instructables. I love that site. I won a Leatherman Juice pocket knife (which I use daily!) and t-shirt way back in the day when the site was brand new for posting this project: Cheap 'n Easy Digital Picture Frame. That was back when digital picture frames still cost $200! So I decided to make my own for my then-girlfriend-now-wife as a gift. Unfortunately I'm still stuck with the username I had back in 2006 when I joined.

Oh wow, it's awesome you joined up! All your projects are just awe-inspiring.

Technically I joined a while ago to reserve my username, but it's about time I showed my face here Thank you!

 

[Mario]

I was so stoked that I got featured AND made it into the weekly email update for Instructables. I love that site. I won a Leatherman Juice pocket knife (which I use daily!) and t-shirt way back in the day when the site was brand new for posting this project: Cheap 'n Easy Digital Picture Frame. That was back when digital picture frames still cost $200! So I decided to make my own for my then-girlfriend-now-wife as a gift. Unfortunately I'm still stuck with the username I had back in 2006 when I joined.

Ooh, nice! The most popular thing I ever posted was a step-by-step guide to my NES portable. That won me some sweet Sanyo Eneloop rechargeable batteries and a couple stickers. They also eventually ended up sending me a hoodie, Halloween postcard, and most recently, an inclusion in their "How to do Everything" book. Pretty ridiculous amount of attention, if you ask me. But I've definitely seen that picture frame Instructable before. Very well done.

 

[Ashen]

Woohoo! LoB, welcome to the forums!

 

[grossaffe]

Welcome to ModRetro, LOB. I was always a fan of your work back in my Ben Heck days.

 

[Twilight Wolf]

Welcome, officially, to ModRetro, LOB! Your projects are killer and, like many other people here, they've always been a favorite of mine. Great to have you grace us with your presence, and I have to say I really enjoyed having a neat little overview of your past achievements -- I nostalgia'd pretty hard a few times.

I look forward to seeing what you'll come up with in the future!

 

[brunoip]

I remember a rc car with a video camera on it, it was pretty good.

 

[Kickback]

Seeing those SNESps with the shoulder buttons on the back is like meeting my ex-girlfriend.

The one I actually like, that is. Those (the white one more so) we're my favourite portables for ages.

 

[bentomo]

WOAH!

Great to see you here Brian, glad you're on the scene. Great ideas come from you.

 

[Drakon]

Jesus I think you're the god of creating perfect snes portables.

 

[Life of Brian]

You guys are too kind. I came across some 3.5" screens that apparently still work and a couple of SNES's so maybe I'll be back in business sooner than I thought!

 

[grossaffe]

excellent. The SNES portables seem to have become a lost art, but I was always rather fond of them.

 

[Life of Brian]

Holy cow I found two 3.7v li-poly batteries, a 7.4v li-poly regulator, and a completely NON-BUTCHERED FC Twin! The FC-Twin was in a box of XBox games and controllers my older brother gave me a while back when his original XBox died. I didn't realize he gave me his FC-Twin as well! I'm thinking dual cartridge portable... I need to dig up those designs I made for on a while back.