20250930 Spinner: Top Revolving Light New PCB Design pt.3

20250930 Spinner: Top Revolving Light New PCB Design pt.3

The SMD LEDs I ordered some time ago has arrived just today. I have finished quite a lot of them and well, its either that or I’ve kept them somewhere else and forgot all about it. 20251020 Update Instead of creating a new post, I am going to put it here. 20 days later, the […]

20250922 Razor Crest The Continuation

20250922 Razor Crest The Continuation

From a Land Far, Far, Away… Oh, wow. My last update on this Project was in 20240217. And that’s more than one and a half years ago! And it was also the time of uncertainty due to a tribal scuffle resulting from a deteriorating papa. It was also the time where I had to slow […]

20250909 Spinner: That Inspiration pt. 2

20250909 Spinner: That Inspiration pt. 2

And so, after the first inspiration hit a few days ago, I had another. This time, instead of making the sandwich, the idea is to use a single PCB board with the 0805 LEDs soldered in the middle. It is very difficult and time consuming to align the two halves together to match the soldering […]

20250904 Spinner: Front Mandible PCB ver 02

20250904 Spinner: Front Mandible PCB ver 02

I can’t remember when was the last time I’ve made a real custom PCB to actually fit the internal shape of a model. If memory serves me right, it could be the Warhammer Stormfang and that would be around 10 years ago. But that was just a plain simple rectangle. This time, the challenge is […]

20250831 Spinner: Custom PCB Shapes

20250831 Spinner: Custom PCB Shapes

In the beginning There are some developments in this Hobby which sometimes pushes me beyond the edge and I am not talking about comfort zone. For over more than a decade, I have witness my own development in terms of PCB design and the final products. From basic marker etching to using photolithograhy using software, […]