20260909 The Lopaka App

20260909 The Lopaka App

First and foremost, when it came to animations on a LCD (or OLED) screen, it is something of a stumbling block for me. Heck, I cannot even make the screen work. The same goes for sound. This one is slightly different as I have yet to figure out how to control a sound chip through […]

20260726 1/6th Proton Pack: Hand soldering a reflow PCB

20260726 1/6th Proton Pack: Hand soldering a reflow PCB

Our office was ordered to close down for almost a month. And so, this gave me the opportunity to catch on the Proton Pack. It’s been getting on and to be honest, ol’ lazy me has gotten bored of this whole thing. In the beginning, I was concentrating on the software side since copying to […]

20260610 So, yeah, I did a thing

20260610 So, yeah, I did a thing

The Primary model, which was a 1/20th scale Neuspotter suffered some bad neck accident and had to be retired. So, this backup Hummel has to come forward (sans figures from Tori Factory) and be done in less than 5 weeks. And boy, I hated those last minute surprises such as bad paints (which was stewing […]

20260518 1/6th Proton Pack: Revision v005B has arrived

20260518 1/6th Proton Pack: Revision v005B has arrived

Today is exactly one month since my last foray into this Project. The 0.8mm circuit boards from JLCPCB has long arrived. And just today, so were the special red 2835 (not 3528) SMD LEDs with a dome lens. Which LEDs? Pulling the Brakes… By now, I can say that the Project has gone to the […]