Soldering this simple lighting system for the Razor Crest took me more than a week. Sad to say, it was far too long than I liked. However, coming back home tired and locking myself in the Works Room which felt like a sauna really sapped all the energy I had left. The heatwave has been […]
Category Archives: Microchip PIC
20230518: Speeding up the soldering
As I was soldering this for a friend whose Razor Crest Project is running way faster than mine, it got me to thinking some things. Sure, I’ll get a very nice trade off from this but this is not the issue. The 37 LEDs took me three hours to solder onto the pair of engine […]
20230507 Razor Crest Cargo Bay test lighting
A few days ago, the circuit boards that I designed has arrived. It was quite exciting because of the two boards that has been sent out, one of them was a very expensive experiment. Yes, it is the flexible PCB (aka flexPCB?) and like most projects that I have started, this is really another milestone. […]
20230430 Are we there yet?
Its just one day short of the month of May. Looking at my progress on the project, my disheartening answer is, ‘No, we are not there yet.’ When I first started the project last year, it was just to light the engines of the AMT model and nothing more. Then I realised, the cockpit needs […]
20230423 Razor Crest Engine Test
OK, the recovery was faster than I expected. In a nutshell, what I did was, I used the later version of the Software, re-built the program and added some subtle effects. All these effects did take a toll on the chip’s memory and so, I had to make some compromises (OK, delete stuff). But finally, […]
