The Top Panel PCB has arrived and immediately, I began to work on it. This simple circuit took me three hours to figure out why it is not working. I have done the troubleshooting and although it checks out, the error was quite puzzling. POST SOLDERING DISCUSSION The soldering took far longer than it should […]
Category Archives: Star Trek
20220720 The Fail
Remember the PCB design which I totally forgot and sent it off to JCLPCB? Well, it has arrived today and I was so happy. My hands were trembling again but I know it is not with happiness but with suspense. To be honest, that design is actually a ‘still in progress’ work and there are […]
20220720 My eBay Tricorder
The parcel took less than 2 weeks to arrive from Texas, United States. The total came to about USD36.00, give or take with the shipping taking up half of that. Yeah, my eyes popped when I saw the eBay listing too. The description said, ‘Vintage 1993 Star Trek Next Gen Tricorder NOT WORKING FOR PARTS’. […]
Did you hear about the JQ8400FL?
More than a decade ago, the sound chips were quite obscure and the only one in town was the ISD from Sequoia Technology. Or was it Winbond? It was so long ago that even Radioshack, which came to Malaysia for less than a year, has them in stock. But after that, I started to hear […]
That Ratcheting Sound
When you open the flap of a TNG, Voyager Tricorder, the unmistakable ratchet sound is there. But there is no such sound on the real props because they added in the sound effect during post-production. Still, that did not stop a lot of people from adding the sound into their Tricorders. If you are going […]
