Would you want to use a hand-crank to charge your phone every single day? Definitely not. But hardware hacker Ben Heck's clever hand-crank mobile charger could certainly come in handy in those more survivalist moments in your life.
Part one was the teardown. Now it's time for rebuilding.
Fun with Autodesk Fusion 360.
If you need to troubleshoot or design electronic hardware, an oscilloscope is a useful bit of kit. This week Ben and Felix put together a Raspberry Pi-based Bitscope Micro Oscilloscope with a 7-inch touchscreen.
Engadget - In this edition of our weekly question and answer session, Ben Heck -- the master of mods and host of The Ben Heck Show -- discusses the paradigm shift of personal assistants and how E.T. was saved by a Speak & Spell. Head on past the break for the full lot of responses.
