Video game consoles are some of the most complex pieces of hardware that you can find in your home, yet there are some more industrious folks out there that take pleasure in ripping them apart. Benjamin J Heckendorn, or Ben Heck as he is more commonly known, is one of those people. For years now Heckendorn has been the Dr. Frankenstein of vintage electronics, gutting the machines of gamers' youth and reconstructing them in an entirely new fashion. You may know him from his work creating portable Ataris, NESs, SNESs, or Xbox 360 and PS3 laptops, and even modifying controllers for disabled gamers.
In the ten years or so that Ben has been rewiring electronics he's come a long way, moving from really basic systems like the Atari 2600 to much more advanced ones like the Xbox 360 and PS3. His creations always border on electronics art, and if his art inspires you, then you might want to start tearing into old systems too. However, if you're just an average Joe, who doesn't know a soldering iron from a Sata cable, Ben Heck had these words of advice should you want to follow in his footsteps as a modder:
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