Just yesterday, I saw a friend of mine, Dean Eyre on Facebook asking for some assistance to light up one of his models. It was a very simple request where 5 red LEDs needs to “glow up” once power is applied to it. At that time, the only clue was his posted image below: ORIGIN […]
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Multicolour Silkscreen PCB from JLCPCB
While trawling through my JLCPCB account, I came across this notification dated April 1st. They are now able to to multilayer silkscreen which in other words, you can now put images on your PCB. I have seen some earlier designs from microcontrollers (Arduino?) but they used them sparingly to only mark the I/O pins. Designing […]
202040408 1/6th Proton Pack: The Guesstimation Process
Fitting a circuit board into a scale model is quite challenging and it usually ends up being a bespoke design. The challenge is to maximise the space within and making sure all the components fit in there. So far, in most scale models, I can skip this process because the available space was more than […]
20240316 You buy what we sell you
One of my pet peeves when it comes to buying stuff is the selection. Even with the convenience of on-line platforms I somehow felt that the choices there is rather limited. I can go from shop to shop and the answer is the same. Surfing on-line platforms is no different. And once in a while, […]
20240217 Razor Crest Main Board Rev.05
After more than about 10 days, the newly re-deisigned (and I hope, the final version) of the Razor Crest’s main board has arrived. The circuit is the same except that it has been re-wired slightly to fit into the new screw terminals. To make or rather, allow for last-minute re-soldering, I have moved the components. […]
