While I admit that the phenomenon commonly known as the "Red Ring of Death" is hardly a news flash, it's a subject I've recently had to deal with. It is also referred to as the "3 Red Leds of Death", and can be shortened to RROD or 3RLOD. There have been some successful repairs out for a while now, but I finally got motivated to fix mine. It has been sitting there sulking on the shelf with those three red lights, blinking steadily, mocking me. It broke a couple months ago, but now that Halo3 and BioShock are out it couldn't wait any longer.



Now that I've gone though the process of breaking and repairing my blinkin' 360, I've decided to take some time away from my two new favorite games long enough to explain clearly what is going wrong with all these fried 360s and how it gets fixed properly.



Looking for an explanation in simple English? Keep reading... Continue reading "The Red Ring of Death: A Full Circle Explanation"

Well it seems Ben is up to his usual mayhem again, and has modded something interesting indeed. This time, it's an Xbox360 wireless controller stuffed into an old Xbox Duke (also referred to as a "fatty") controller. After receiving several requests, he got one of those wild hairs like he does every so often and decided it might be fun. As always, he makes this stuff look easy.









Keep reading to see his story, with nice large clear photos and a movie clip of him using it to play Stranglehold... Continue reading "Another Ben Heckendorn Mod: A 360 Duke Controller"

There are many modders in the world, doing all kinds of awesome projects. However, nobody even seems to come close to the next generation of awesomeness that consistently comes out of Ben's workshop. Now, just in case any of you happened to be under a rock last September, this is the guy that stuffed a 360 into a custom fabricated laptop case complete with HD monitor. It turned out like this:







Ok, now either he must have gotten really bored or someone offered him a boatload of cash because he made another 360 laptop and it's even more awesome than the last one. He hasn't released many details on it yet, because Engadget will be doing a 3 part "How-to" on it soon and they want to get as much attention as possible. Anyway, what did get released is a handful of external photos and a hillarious video of Ben with the laptop.







I've got all of the photos and the video posted after the jump.



Engadget's post on the laptop

Ben's website(Warning: much awesomeness to be found here.) Continue reading "Another Ben Heckendorn 360 Laptop!"