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Ben Hencke

I make all the things. I'm a born tinkerer. I love a good problem, and share the tricks I've learned.

Santa Cruz, CA

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This user joined on 05/18/2016.

My Projects

Tiny computer OS for 1kB challenge. OKOS is just ok because OKOS is just OK.

One Kilobyte Operating System (OKOS)

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

Turn almost any flat surface into a sensor using cheap piezos and time difference of arrival.

TapTDOA

Stereoscopic 3D VR maze on a pair of badges

Supercon 2017 VR Badge Hack

Turn your badge into a 1-channel oscilloscope!

2016 Hackaday SuperConference Oscilloscope Badge

PIC assembly is fun, but GOTOs suck. I wrote this macro library that lets you write nested IF blocks, just like C or other languages.

Ben's PIC nested if macros

Projects I Contribute To

Tindie

A place for Tindie sellers and the community to meet and stretch their legs

Tindie Dog Park

oshpark

electronic conference badge for 2018 Open Hardware Summit attendees

2018 Open Hardware Summit badge

oshpark oshpark

Join us to talk about all things Superconference (Pasadena, Nov 5+6), this chat includes badge hacking!

Hackaday Superconference Chat

ESP32 WiFi/BLE AddOn, using AT firmware

ATTENTION: SuperCon AddOn

Projects I Like & Follow

Always jealous of people who could afford big Nixie Tubes, I rolled my own alternative with WS2812Bs and laser cutting!

"Lixie", an LED alternative to the Nixie Tube

cordwood + smt + jewelry + blinkies + zinc-air batteries

cyborg ring

Conference badge for the 2017 Hackaday Superconference Features: camera module, 128x128 OLED display, MicroSD card socket and accelerometer

Camera badge for Supercon 2017

A Teensy 3.6 running as an Apple //e

Aiie! - an embedded Apple //e emulator

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

fully portable ESP12 project with battery charging and power muxing

LAMEBOY - another ESP12 handheld

Sensor platform for monitoring PH, Temperature, 02 absorption, and conductivity for Hydroponics Systems

PH & Temperature Sensor to monitoring Hydroponics

Mini blimp flies through hoops! Features 3 DC motors/ propellers, battery charging, and wireless communication.

Remote Control Mini Blimp!

Arcade games on the Micro:bit

Micro:Boy

Make it act as a USB disk and just copy files on it.

ESP8266 with True USB

Portable super small low cost 3D SLA printer with a 30mm^3 print volume.

SLA 3D Printer HaD Super Con 2017 Badge Hacking

As title says, my random essays about microcontrollers, all in one package

MCU how-tos, reviews, rants

This circuit accepts 6-12VDC, and outputs programmatic 8KHz 200V squarewaves to drive electroluminescent wire or small panels.

Multi-channel electroluminescent driver

Superconference 2017 weekend project: take panning time-lapse videos with the camera badge

Panning Time-Lapse with Supercon 2017 CamBadge

The sino:bit a single-board micro controller designed for computer education in China.

Sino:bit

Elecrow Elecrow

USB on an ATtiny10

µ-wire

ESP32 WiFi/BLE AddOn, using AT firmware

ATTENTION: SuperCon AddOn

How to export/transcode video using ffmpeg to be played on the Hackaday SuperConference 2017 badge.

Transcode video w/ffmpeg for SuperCon 2017 Badge

My educational journey into the development of a single board computer.

Journey SBC

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