There are a lot of lights on the Spinner. At the last count on my design, it was about 65 LEDs. I wanted to put up the information about the lights for a very long time. It was neither on my previous Website nor on my Facebook Page, Piscean Works. And so, this blog post […]
Category Archives: Printed Circuit Board
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
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
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. […]
20230126 The Razor Crest Control Board
It took about 16 days (right through the Chinese New Year) for JLCPCB to process and deliver my design to me. And I am quite happy. However, looking at the boards, methinks there could be a possible version 3.0 Right now, this is version 2.0. There was no version 1.0 as the ULN2003 Darlington Pair […]
