Happy New Year! I have located the 3mm White LED and soldered onto another prototype PCB. This time, I have not modified the 3mm spacer but just used it as it is. Instead of the 10mm height I envisioned, my calipers said the height should be around the 9mm mark. This means, with the spacer, […]
Category Archives: Scale Models
20251231 Spinner: Front Mandible PCB ver 03 LED Spacer
Are you high? A typical height of a 5mm LED is 8.7mm (1mm collar and 7.7mm resin lens). Add that to the 3mm spacer, we’re looking at a 11.7mm height. But as shown above where the 0mm height LED position looked more accurate, lets have a brief calculation about the 3mm LED. Its typical height […]
20251229 All Hail the great Pantone 646C
When Blue is Grey and Grey is not Blue During the time before the turn of the Century, everything was well. And Movies were great. We know that T.I.E. Fighters were grey and Spinners were deep blue. But everything changed after Y2K. The Internet grew and everyone started to connect with each other. The whole […]
20251223 Writing a Manual. This is the Way
The one thing I hate about Projects is the Manual writing part. In the beginning, it was fun but now, it felt more like a chore. Based on the experience on the previous Product, I was quite concerned that many who has bought it did not RTFM, as in Read The Fragging Manual. I am […]
20251221 Syd Mead’s Concept Spinner printed by Colin Catchpole
This 320mm model is 1/15th Scale as 3D built by Colin Catchpole. Someday, I would like to have some 3D model built, complete with lighting and stuff. I might still not own a 3D Printer nor know much about 3D software but one can still hope.
