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. […]

20230126 The Control Board

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 […]

20230131 It sat here in the dark…

20230131 It sat here in the dark…

Over the past two weeks, my Facebook feed was full of news about the Haslab Proton Pack. Namely1. Getting their Packs,2. Not getting their Packs,3. Regrets of not backing the Pack,4. Calling sellers as Scalpers,5. Unboxing,6. Why did Hasbro lie? The video’s Prototype has this, that, and other stuff…7. Memeing the Spirit Pack owners? Then […]