Circuit Break - A MacroFab Podcast
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Episode 23
Season 1
EP#23: Interview with Ben Heck of The Ben Heck Show
Podcast Notes
- Dactyl nightmare - One of the first demonstrations of virtual reality used in a video game at the mall of America in the early 90s.
- Sony/Nintendo console – Before Sony created the Playstation, they had partnered with Nintendo to create a SNES console. The Ben Heck show has featured a tear down of the device.
- Snes star fox voices – Ben shows us his excellent talent of emulating the voices of the characters from the Super Nintendo Star Fox game.
- Parker and Ben tell the story of how they met at the Midwest Gaming Classic.
- Pinheck system – Parker and Ben discuss in detail the design of the Pinheck pinball system. This control system is used in the America’s most haunted pinball maching made by spooky pinball.
- We determined that the Parallax Propeller utilizes the Von Neumann architecture as opposed to the Harvard architure for its program memory.
- Adafruit recently had an interview with Matt Berggren, the director of Autodesk circuits, to talk about the future of eagle. The interview can be found here.
- Mega processor – A massive, discrete-level processor designed by James Newman which uses over 42,000 transistors is finally complete. His project can be found here.
- A clone of the Apollo Guidance computer, the computer that brought astronauts to the moon and back, has been built by John Pultorak. schematics can be found here.