A3, A3 where art thou, A3?

20230208 Blade Runner Spinner: A3, A3 where art thou, A3?

It’s time like these that I wished I had my original circuit diagram in A3 size. Boy, the A4 version are really testing my eyesight. This is the circuit diagram for the Fujimi 1/24 Blade Runner Spinner. It runs off three microcontrollers for the different lighting effects. At the last count, according to this sheet […]

20230206 The Fujimi Blade Runner Spinner

20230206 The Fujimi Blade Runner Spinner

THE PROGRESS SO FAR It’s been more than 3 years since I last worked on the lighting system for the Spinner. It’s not the electronics which stalled the project but rather, the backwall. Year before that, I was detailing the backwall and had butchered and transplanted the middle details to a new template. The template […]

20230201 Every Milliseconds Counts

20230201 Every Milliseconds Counts

The basic programming for the Engines are more or less done. The effects are close enough but in terms of timing, it is still not there yet. You see, the timing from startup to the engines on full blast, is about 2 seconds. And in that time frame, there’s a lot of exciting things happening. […]