Pimping Pac Man | Let's make it rechargeable! 

For a demonstration of abilities and courage, and for performance beyond the call of duty, I hereby promote you to Major Bodge.

I love mods like this. You made the device more functional and cheaper to operate, and with a minimum of fuss.

That was a nice little departure from the usual, and it had the perfect amount of singing in it, too! Nice!

Pimp my Pac-Man! Mission accomplished… excellent work, sir!

The charge light was genius !

I would just use a small piece of fiber optic cable for the charge light, and you can lead it anywhere you like that way.

Excellent work! And dare I say... solid?

Wow Steve, you are a genius. My friend. You put me so much in mind of my nephew. He's a lighthearted guy just like you. I've been ill for a while. But your videos always put a smile on my face and give me a warm feeling in my heart. Keep up the fabulous work brother. Love and light. Paul. ❤🥰😇

I appreciate you doing the little puff of air before wiping the screen, so many people forget that - you can have a piece of metal dust on the screen that you'll scratch it all up if you smear the wipe on your screen with that. A little puff of air is all it takes to remove those particles before wiping, and you can save so many scratches from happening.

Another win for the Artful Bodger! Nice project Steve!!

Steve, casually demelling right next to the other side of his hand.

Hot Glue and TPU filament. Works amazingly well with my projects for light pipe replacements.

Your battery already has an overcharge protection board (dw01a + 8205a). It was possible to implement 2 packs of batteries in parallel. There is also enough space in the case to install a power bank module (SM5308) - this would expand the functionality of this device as a “Pac Man” power bank.

Like a glove! 😂 👍

As previously commented ....solid.! It's the only way to applaud this work!! Again.....solid !😅

Well done, Steve! Solid soldering on a solid solution. Now you just need to add a second battery underneath the charging board in the left cavity in parallel with the other battery, and give yourself ages of runtime! 😁

Fantastic work their Steve! There's a few things laying about here that could do with this operation to make them better.

Definitely not a bodge but a well thought out upgrade to something you use. Well done. For bodges you should watch some of Electronics Repair School laptop repairs. Capacitors often get ripped out (literally) and mostly not replaced, failed protection mosfets often just bypassed, and blown SMD fuses replaced by bits of wire - all for paying customers!

Nice little upgrade, just a thought on the light, maybe look at a 2 colour LED on legs to stand up and poke out or rest just near the hole.

You can use like 14500 Li Ion battery. They fit in the original battery case. An you can use 4 of them. No need to cut. Regards from Magdeburg

Loved it. You should make more upgrade videos. ❤

What a fun project to watch!! Very well done, Steve!! You too, Dave.

Great video, loved the part where you vacuum the button up 😂

9:15 I really thought you'd got it right. There was just something about the timing of this moment, that gave me a good chuckle.

One word; SOLID! Good job!

You could have used a couple of reclaimed lipo batteries from disposable ecigarettes (vapes), they have perfectly re useable lipo batteries of around 500 mAh capacity and can be found dumped in most streets. 2 in parallel will fit in the space of 2 AA batteries, so no Dremeling is required. The cell protection against over discharge is provided by the TP4056 module. I've done this a couple of times to Poundland flashlights and head torches. If you need a stable 5V from the lipo, DC to DC converters are available from the usual suppliers, they are very small and efficient.

nice little upgrade well done

I really enjoy watching you fix stuff. thanks.

solid work, i would take the hotsnot off and put it on the plastic instead for water proofing but thats me

Fantastic video Steve, great mod and great presentation as usual, I stand in awe of your modding skills ;) Any more like this would be very welcome :)

I collected up some broken toys that have electronic parts, one day I plan on using them up on projects like these. I cannot be bothered anymore with charging regular batteries. Rather have everything packed and ready in one device then one USB cable and that is it.

Cool mod video ! Need more of this kind, love it !

well done, Steve!

I enjoyed this more than a fix. 👍

From repair-pro to product designer. Well done.

That was great! Great job.

I did the same thing to my sons metal detector. Got a lipo cell, charging module, and voltage regulator from ebay. Works fabtastic.

Nice one. I've got a number of battery powered gadgets that I want to convert, I'm feeling inspired after watching this, thanks 🙂

Oh man I'm so glad RU-vid recommend you your a perfect teacher for all sorts of bodg job projects I love to do but never usually succeed in ooo looks like my next tool ill need to get is a Dremel heaps of love this is amazing

One of your best ones yet! I may use this in the future. Thanks!

brilliant brilliant work and you say you don't know very much, you just proved that you do. 👍👍👍

Awesome mod! The only thing I would add is a counterweight to the vacant battery compartment to even it out a bit.

This belongs on the main channel. Great mod. Would love to see battery life comparison.

Very nice mod! :D

Solid ! Excelent video ! Everyone should midefy their appliance and learn electrinics

Lint rollers Use a lint roller instead of a vacuum cleaner, then you won't lose yellow buttons. And they're quieter. And they work better.

awesome upgrade! Well done! I love it

Not the usual style of your videos but absolutely excellent. Who does NOT love a good mod? There should be more mods.

Hot snot to hold a short piece of acrylic rod that butts up to the underside of the lid acting as a light pipe would be a cleaner/pro install.

Very clean mod and will save you some battery money and the environment.

I just buy NiMh batteries cheap, about the same price as good alkaline but recharge hundreds of times. They are 1.2V/cell and not 1.5V like alkaline and have about 1/3 the energy density but its not a problem because I just switch them out with charged ones and put the discharged ones on the charger.

Looking good! You should look into Dremel spiral cutting tools tho. It looks like a drill bit, but it's for cutting plastic. I use them when modifying consoles. Much easier to do corners than with those cutting disks.

You are definitely improving… wish I was!

I love this. Though I think I’ll stick to rechargeable AA’s myself 😅

I like this one even better that repair vids.. Mod vids might be good to mix in.. Good job.

I normally use 2 lifepo4 AA and two blank AA for such things. The lifepo4 have nominal 3.2V. You need a special lifepo4 charger for them.

I often use holes for the lights on these little modules, but I drill the hole then put a bit of tape on the outside and fill the hole from the inside with a bit of epoxy glue, then remove the tape after the epoxy has cured. Have never needed to make a light guide as these little LED's have quiet a focused bright light which shines nicely on/through the epoxy glue.

Great job.

You should definitely consider more mod videos. That was good!

Exelent video Steve! And a perfect amount of beeps from the multimeter ;-)

That was neat, watching you work that out. I'd really like to see a company like PCBWay or one of those that does custom circuit boards and 3D prints able to offer custom rechargeable battery forms... hopefully one day. Then hobbyists like yourself and many others could retrofit more rechargeables into all kinds of setups!

Nice job Steve 👍 but I guess the battery life was reduced several times compared to using 4 x AA batteries.

Loved this one Stevie! Maybe snatch a small transparent button or something off of scrap to cover the hole? It's so perfect but that open hole gives me the jitters!

At a guess, the diode is probably an OR and a reverse protection function, when using both USB and battery power. It may be worth checking whether the USB port has power on it (shouldn't have) when just powering by battery.

You can drill a hole in the front and use a mirror to redirect the light to the front.

Hey Steve! Quick tip for cutting plastic with a rotary tool: the slower the better. It seems counter intuitive but going too fast causes the plastic to melt and get sticky which makes cutting more difficult and the finished product look worse. Hope that helps! Have a wonderful weekend!

I love these mod videos! The first video of yours that got me hooked was adding an echo to an old radio.

I have done the same thing with a couple of devices. The most difficult is to find the best quality battery with the biggest capacity to fit into the case.

Brilliantly done Steve, loved the modifications you made I’m guessing this was a while ago as your melted plastic count has gone down by quite a lot 😊

Nice clean mod. I like it and I was surprised how well the charge light hole was visible

If you need to make a nice LED diffuser then drill a little hole in the plastic, put a small blob of hot glue on the reverse side over the hole, flip it over quickly and push the hot glue through very gently until you have a nice amount filling the hole or bulging out a little. It always looks better than having a bare hole.

Nice one, always good to have it rechargable instead. I was thinking about trying to do this with a Wiimote, but I don't wanna dremel mine haha, need a new one to play around with.

Excellent work Steve !

10:45 this sounds like the siren in the middle of The Rockafeller Skank.

Uh oh, the first stages to designing your own circuity and making new games... I can see it all coming now. lol Thumbs Up!

latest motherboard pcb technology is amazing sir

I thought we were in for a Bruce Forsyth impression at the top there. Good game, good game, unnnnhhhh

Another awesome video! Great idea and as usual, you had me laughing!

Nice Thinking. Just double check that the BMS and the way you have wired it protects the battery from being OVERDISCHARGED. The way you have wired it (parallel to battery), probably not. Overcharged Lithium batteries will fail prematurely- also very unsafe...

Very nice work!

its no surprise to see steve is a low key genius in the comments. +1

This is a neat concept. I've seen it done before but you did a really decent job here ;)

The most sensefree, needless upgrade of a cheap device. It is sooo stupid to put that much time in it. How can one not love this? Pure art ❤❤❤

You're not captain bodge - you are the bodgemeister!

Great job fella

Great stuff, only thing I would have done different is to swap around the battery and charger to save a wire run across the top, also keep the battery away from the hottest chip on the board which i am assuming is the big rectangular one or the blob chip. Actually thinking about it you could forgo the wires and use the old battery circuit that joins the 4 AA cells as the charging circuit instead linking the charger and battery.

really nice mod. you've clarified some thoughts I had.

I have done couple of these rechargable mods myself, and I would strongly suggest you get yourself light guide. It will be much more visible and efficient for charging light. I use them and they are awesome :)

Steve...you gotta get a corded Dremel. The lack of power on those rechargeable ones is horrendous.

Four rechargeable batteries, job done.😂

Good video. Thank you

What? No appearance from that little squirrel thing ? The one that pops up and makes a strange noise? I shall name him Pickwick.

Like a glove

Nice work mate 👍

great idea love it

Brilliant!

Use 4xAA rechargeables, doesnt require any butchering, will last 3 times longer than a 3.6v cell

Brilliant!!

Done this with att my multimeters and whatnot, so much better ^^ Unless you forget to charge em ofc... :P

I'm really dreading the dentist now!😱