Ben Heck's Hackmanji Board Game Part 3

[@joechill1]

This project is fantastic. Very creative use of many disciplines (woodworking, laser cutting, circuitry, on-demand printing, mechanics, etc.). Keep up the great work!

[@yottazoid3222]

The final product looks amazing!

[@green4free]

this should be massproduced and sold. it looks awesome

[@tylisirn]

It would be uneconomically expensive, unfortunately. You'd have to replace those banana plugs with something else, or you'd end up with something on the order of $150 - $200 retail price.

[@TheOMGWTFBBQ777]

thats not that bad of a price to be honest.

[@billkillernic]

It has like a small logic board a SD card some ram 4 servos some plastics some wood and a few other connections etc... I think you can make this in china (considering you will do a bulk order of lets say 1000 of them) for like 30$ each tops.... then there is shipment and import duties and taxes but then again you can always kickstart your way out :P

[@chakglanz4656]

When are you going to make a collaboration video with Adam Savage??

[@yottazoid3222]

5:15 - TF2 Engineer In A Nutshell...

[@thethingsbypete7195]

Yea XD

[@swampflux]

There are a few boardgames from the late 70s that included a plastic card and a grease pencil. It's kind of like dry erase except that the grease pencil never dries out so you can keep it in the box with the rest of the game pieces, and instead of a booklet of paper sheets to record scores/notes on that end up as trash after each play, you can just wipe the grease pencil marks off with a tissue. I think including one of those for each player would do the trick-doesn't have to be embedded in to the board itself. Board games you can look at as examples are Black Box and Close Encounters of The Third Kind

[@DesignBuildExecute]

Besides the giant Gameboy, I have to say this is the best looking project you've ever produced. It was worth the wait to see.

[@MarcinKurczalski]

Calculator was exactly what I needed while watching the show. Thanks Ben!

[@n.h.s.a.d.m.]

Wow, I recognized the RF shield was from a CV before I even saw the note! "Wait, that's a .... yup."

[@SeamusCampbell89]

Did they intend to reveal Ben's personal email address at 11:06?

[@shaunpja]

Not really that is the email address listed on his webpage.

[@StoneFlange]

The only thing I would do different on this project is... Let Felix play his turn!

[@chartle1]

Do the latches automatically open or was it a camera trick? I figured to get the piece in place you get slide them towards the magnet on the arm.

[@felixdietzCGN]

those dice-count anouncements by felix are awesome, I didn't think he could be this loud and tense :-)

[@markinnes4264]

This is one of the most beautiful builds I've seen! Congrats! It looks so neat to play. Very cool.

[@corneleousworthington4566]

The "Welcome to Hackmanji" announcements (Felix?) were epic, awesome, and hilarious at the same time! All projects should have this! :-) Imagine a home HVAC thermostat with this announcer feature!

[@RetroRoadshow]

I want.. no.. make that NEED a magical Felix voice theme for my phone. Make it so!

[@WatchdogGoon]

The only thing I would change to the physical game would be to add a support to the screen part of the top so it could be held partially open so you could see the screen easily.

[@t.Mooney]

I would pay so much money for this. Great job Ben and team. That came out really good.

[@richb313]

This is one of your best effort guys. I am sure when you are done you always think of better and simpler solutions to problems but the results of this build are fantastic and you still have the ability for improvements through programming. Great Job Guys.

[@3rdaxis649]

Where do i buy one?!?! Very cool and educational.

[@johnkoch2]

I would buy this. Any plans to produce these? This would be great for my kids!

[@craigj20]

Cool game! You should make the puzzle section removable and battery powered so that the kids can play "Hackmanji Go" during long road trips in the family truckster

[@colinstu]

Looks fun! Would love to play it

[@SeamusCampbell89]

What program is Ben using to read the WAV files in hexadecimal?

[@sirp0p0]

HxD

[@CMM1215]

SUPER super cool builds. I'd love to see more electronic games built by you guys in the future!! Hoping to see you do an update video once you tweak stuff, too :)

[@GodsMemeTV]

this project needs to be Kickstarted = mass production ASAP :) Nice job

[@azyfloof]

4:20 Siren irons? :P

[@Alluvian567]

Very awesome. This is something I would love to do, not this exact thing, but a similar concept with making a physical boardgame automated. A game like roborally or a dexterity game with robotics are ideas I have considered (but have no time to do it)

[@pinkflame7237]

you guys should build a stackable console system. the best way I can explain my idea is, If you could build a wooden Tupperware big enough to fit the insides of the biggest console in it. so you could make one for every console and even consoles yet to be released. all you'd have to do is only a small bit of customization for each console, while keeping the same design on the bottom and top. you could just keep stacking on till you have a pillar.

[@TheTundraTerror]

9:19 - Please. Fucking blow my speakers out.

[@michaelmaass351]

I would love to play this game. Good work guys!

[@Mike-zl4zs]

What MCU did you use Ben?

[@maker_karen1785]

Parallax Propeller.

[@haakonness]

In audacity you can export audio files as raw audio. That way you would not have to bother with headers/metadata. And figuring out the length of the audio file is just reading the size of the file from FAT, and divide by channels and bytes per sample. It would be less hacky at least. I wouldn't say harder to change the files, since you already hard-code the length of the music, etc. So I think it would have been a more clean solution with raw files.

[@NaokisRC]

I just want to know what the cost is shipped to my door.

[@niqhtt]

Awesome, but really sounds like it needs a better speaker.

[@kstringer24]

I think it would have been better to have the source bits and the result compare beside each other so you can see the clues and the outcome together, without having to look back and forth.

[@brycenwilliams.3185]

Can somebody please show me where i can buy a not gate?

[@NickHjorth]

What an awesome project! I would love a game like that :D good work guys!

[@hydrolisk1792]

Freaking awesome mate. I would so play this all the time with my mates :)

[@ObiTrev]

Who's the 4th guy?

[@Furby_assassin]

looks awesome! I would love to play it, need to sell them so I can buy one.

[@john-paulhopman318]

Case looks great.

[@rvd2339]

Great project, board game looks amazing!!

[@ASilentS]

You could have undercut the pegs and filled in the space with leather strips to look like stitching.

[@Zyk0tiK]

I really want this game. You should get it manufactured and sell it.

[@four-en-tee]

What would i do to make it better?... I'd make the puzzles designed to solve math problems. I mean, we could be using a game like this to teach children basic algebra in elementary schools. (maybe as a 4th or 5th grade board game)

[@brandonmichael5529]

Why is this show not called Hecks Hacks?

[@crazycraig6]

Here's hoping for a Colecovision project.

[@McMeatBag]

How does this have such few views. This project is amazing

[@MrChri1990]

:( I was thinking of doing a jumanji board like this. Oddly enough I was going to use the parallax propeller also.

[@mmmhorsesteaks]

Heckmanji, soon on Ben's Etsy page :-p Really cool build guys, totes love it :D

[@kironoschannel]

The announcer soundbites that Felix did remind me of Gauntlet Legends/Dark Legacy.

[@nrdesign1991]

Red warrior shot the food!

[@oldenburgermitrad]

A very cool project and it looks great!

[@ronaldramirez5601]

What a nice game, I'll buy it right now

[@TechDark]

Can you make a geocache on raspberry pi

[@dirtybee6454]

"Batten down the hatchissssssssssssss"

[@JaapioNL]

Those sounds are very reminiscent of pinball machine sounds.

[@maker_karen1785]

That's what I said. It sounds just like the Pinball game Ben made.

[@mikespark72]

that was awesome guys! great job!

[@Dudemi]

The end result looks really nice. :)

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

can you not use a 256GB or a 512GB SDHC card to allow for more space, could you not use... for(result=0,mask=1,iter=0;iter

[@trulygg]

It looks pretty damn cool, I'm not sure if it's any fun to play but I am impressed.

[@maker_karen1785]

We need to fix some of the puzzles, but it is really fun to play. So intense!

[@MicahTheManiac]

You guys should do another Raspberry Pi portable. Not a MAME portable but like the Pi Zero portable, with a keyboard. And the Pi 3 has built in WiFi + Bluetooth so all 4 USB ports could still be accessed.

[@kedwa30]

I think that would be too easy and redundant. You take a SBC (could be Raspberry Pi 3, could be Odroid, could be C.H.I.P. etc.) and you add a power supply (battery and charger), case (could be 3D printed, could be made with hot-glue and sticks), output (screen, speakers, etc.), user input (keyboard, track-pad, mouse, trackball, camera, microphone, etc.) you put them all together and you're done. I think it makes for a better show to try to figure out how to do more with less or to repurpose old tech. Like what if you have an old cell phone but you don't have thirty five bucks for a Raspberry Pi 3. How could you reprogram the MCU in the old phone (not a smartphone) to do something useful? For example, I have an old Samsung SGH-A737. It has bluetooth but not wifi, a micro-SD card slot, a charging and data port, controls, a screen, and a processor. It turns on but then turns off again, so something is wrong with it. Of course it makes more sense to just upgrade to a newer phone than to have an unreliable repaired old phone, but what a waste to throw it out when parts of it are working. I'll bet with the right knowledge, someone (maybe even me) could take it apart and make it into a bulky bluetooth smartwatch. I just want to re-use the existing microcontroller to do it.

[@theneroliveira]

very nice indeed, it really looks cool guys, worth the effort

[@dustinm2717]

now you just need to mass produce them

[@over2there]

i'd love to buy such game!

[@chaegle]

Should have called it Heckmanji...

[@njharper1983]

Who else's computer heard Ben ask Cortana to open calculator and opened it?

[@maker_karen1785]

Ha! That's awesome.

[@fmhqbattousai]

hackmanji --- Shut up and take my money!

[@chadschlesinger]

lop läp verb 1. cut off (a branch, limb, or other protrusion) from the main body of a tree. "they lopped off more branches to save the tree"

[@greenlaceblue]

Looks amazing, bad thing i would be able to solve the puzzles

[@TechMojos]

Very impressive!

[@kawawete]

Damn, gotta copyright the whole thing before someone else steal the idea and sell it ;) Came out really good !

[@KuraIthys]

Copyright is implicit. They already have dated evidence seen by a large audience that it was their idea. XD Unless they declare it public domain themselves, they're good...

[@veneratedmortal4369]

KuraIthys wasn't it a viewers idea?

[@satchelfrost6531]

Kickstarter!

[@benmitzelfelt5296]

Did any one else's computer respond to the " Hey Cortana"

[@DJzSith]

No because we dont use windows 10

[@dan33yandrew]

Hi Ben

[@kirknelson156]

thats a very cool game, i'd play it :)

[@peterbrandt7911]

Very, very nice!

[@raindogred]

It's a good project, but I don't see this concept taking off outside of ben heck community..electronics/gamers nerds..trying to advance by having to work out logic circuits?? If you had it connected to wifi and had a whole bunch of content..answering trivia questions, puzzles..maybe a bigger screen..it could could be commercially viable

[@ik04]

The word is "lop."

[@MAYERMAKES]

it still looks like a swastika

[@pepe3351]

Amazing!

[@hazza3238]

haha love this idea i want this game my kids would love it and it is good to start education young so good concept lol would be cool to have switchable games for it tho make it more interesting and to have s choice to play with similar to when they started doing double sided boards so you could switch from snakes and ladders to checkers.

[@DeviousMalcontent2]

make Quake3manji.

[@MDFRESCUER]

Nice.

[@Flfagundes1979]

Amazing !!!!!

[@countzerobah]

I want it!!!!

[@abshirjama48]

Cortana Activate!!!!

[@dangarris5309]

Id make a robot dog that can poop real poop.

[@afdsadf147852369]

hackmanjiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[@danieldking]

i have lookt ate al the part and its awesome i hope i going to sel i store in a near future

[@xboys_archive]

10th

[@KaienSander10Official]

Early :D

[@HuntersMoon78]

Jewmahngee

[@cobaltyt19]

cringe

[@jsmines5482]

first! lol

[@PaulXerxen]

Except that in the movies it interesting, and I'm sorry to say yours is "boring". Children wouldn't understand logic gates. :-(

[@maker_karen1785]

It's not boring when you play it. It gets really intense and you feel like you're diffusing a bomb. Not all, but some kids would be able to understand the logic gates and I bet they'd be better at the game than we were! Don't underestimate the mind of a child. They can surprise you!

[@xxXXCarbon6XXxx]

Fantastic! Protype built, only 5999 more to make.

[@frozenlicks]

awesome as always...ive always wanted to do stuff like that :(

[@naughtyzippo]

ben saying hey cortana actually opened cortana on my pc lol

[@themadhacker9376]

i actually turned off the voice recognition for that because every time someone on tv would say "hey" it would switch on XD