bbenchoff.github.io

Design Portfolio

I design strange things in hardware and software. Highlights include:

• An isolated thermocouple reader, replicating a $2000 National Instruments module for $120.

• I converted a car without semiconductors to use CAN for everything.

• A Nikon lens adapter for the first digital camera.

• I made an Instagram clone for my pics of San Francisco take with vintage digital cameras.

• Exaluminal, a device that tell you the Earth will be destroyed by a supernova hours before it happens. This was #1 on Hacker News, but Orange Website Bad.

• Here’s a $15 Linux Machine. Also #1 on Hacker News, but Orange Website Bad.

• I’m restoring a vintage electric car

• The time I built a blockchain of Tide pods
  • This was part of the indie DEFCON badge I made
• Reverse engineering 20-year-old consumer electronics
  • You would not belive how useful a fiberglass pen is.

• I made full-color printed circuit boards

• I also do CAD work
  • With molded silicone
  • and injection molded plastic
• And embedded development:
  • Write a TFT driver they said
  • There is no standard for terminal escape codes
  • Now-unobtanium LED drivers