Just read a very disheartening news from Modelmodz Ltd (aka Chloe Powell) who are one of the Companies which supplies the electronics for the Eaglemoss’s, now, now Fanhome’s, “Build the Back to the Future DeLorean” partswork. This particular Partswork spawned a handful of cottage industries that overcomes the lacklustre quality of the electronics supplied in […]
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20260320 When you give away what you’ve made…
Who I am Despite having an Electronics Engineering Degree, I really got nowhere in Life. Most of my Jobs does not really give my Degree a run for the money. What it did was to tell everyone that I went Overseas and got a piece of paper. The Degree did expose me to the World […]
20260310 So, I bought Toy PKD Blaster pt.5: Programming the JQ6500
Uploading .MP3 files into the JQ6500 is not as easy as it sounds. Since the on-board flash storage on the market is typically 16MBit (aka 2Mb). So, if your samples are long, you will need to re-encode your files to a lower bitrate (but this compromises playback quality). You will also need a Program to […]
20260315 So, I bought Toy PKD Blaster pt.6: Testing the JQ6500
The 28mm 8 Ohm 3W speakers… have arrived. And so are the 5-position switches, plus other stuff not relevant to this Project such as UV Glue. From past experiences, the 3W speakers I’ve had were good enough for prop sounds. The only issue is the choice of amplifiers that must be small enough to drive […]
20260307 When you need to do a Mass Production
Ever since I started doing runs on my Projects, I needed to plan for a lot of things, which mainly, was caused by budgeting issues. The numbers of PCBs required was too small to be outsourced and also, the price, if any, does not justify the endeavor. In the end, the usual solution would come […]
