MMHS or Malcom is now in its 10th year, a far cry from when it was just starting. There were a lot of stories behind it and what nots, from the struggles to friendships history but then again, scale modeling is no different from any other genre groups. IS THIS WONDERFEST? In the 2-day event, […]
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20250529 The 0.8mm PCB
There’s a slight lull in the Office, so this is just a filler post to briefly touch on the thin 0.8mm PCBs. More than a decade ago, when I was scouring locally for someone to make printed circuit boards (aka PCBs), most companies would only produce them with the standard thickness of 1.6mm. They are […]
20250416 C&C Tesla Trooper: Reprogramming the Tesla Emitter
I am happy to report that the Solution worked. Earlier, I mentioned that there were two possible solutions. I would either redo the whole program or, switch the ports. Coming back from Work exhausted, I tried the latter and yeap, it worked. The next thing is to re-program the chip and already being tired, I […]
20250414 C&C Tesla Trooper: First Test of the Tesla Emitter
The 0805 SMD Ice Blue LEDs arrived faster than I expected today. I chose Ice Blue because this is the only shade of blue which I loved and it is literally the same colour of the Starship Warp Coils of the Star Trek genre. When the Blue LED came out during the turn of the […]
20250412 C&C Tesla Trooper: The Circuit Board
I got the circuit board back from JLCPCB a few days ago. Although I was excited but with some Fever mixed with bout of the Flu, Gout attack and a tennis elbow all rolled into one, I had to stay in bed as soon as I came back from Work. Just sitting on the Works […]
