GAME SYSTEMS TO GO
Portabilizers take apart video game systems and turn them into portable gaming units.
Benjamin J. Heckendorn hacks video games, in the most literal sense. The 29-year-old from Verona, Wisc., disassembles video game systems, cuts apart their circuit boards within, rewires them, and stuffs them into smaller, custom-made casings. Adding battery power systems and an LCD display, he transforms them into portable gaming units.
Four years ago, while employed at a company that had computer-controlled machining equipment, work turned to inspiration as he fashioned out a handheld casing to contain the circuitry of an Atari 2600 (also known as the Atari Video Computer System; see MAKE Volume 02, page 192). “I thought it ...
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