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 […]
Category Archives: Design
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 […]
20260316 The Enforcer: A Gun for Zhora
This is a very nice concept which to me, is best suited for Police. I could imagine where during the chase, Zhora might encounter a Police or Riot Officer, subdued them and grabbed their side-arm. In the next scene, she could be seen removing the barrel (which I can assume to be some sort of […]
20260316 Who is Rick Ross?
In the SciFi Props and Replicas scene, the name Rick Ross is synonimous with the PKD Blaster and its snub-nosed variant. Heck he was the one who came up with, “Pflager Katsumata Series D” for the PKD Blaster in the Blade Runner Movie. Just like Robocop, their iconic weapons does not have any name. So, […]
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 […]
