Whelp, it’s almost a month since the Chinese New Year and most of the parts I have ordered are starting to arrive. It takes anywhere between 4 to 8 weeks for the items to arrive and by then, I kinda lose steam on the projects. Sure, there are other ways such as paying more for […]
Category Archives: Razor Crest
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 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 […]
20230105 The Engines are done!
THE LEDS, THEY HAVE COME The Warm White LEDs arrived and as soon as I got back home, I started to solder them onto the PCB. The problem with ordering online is that it takes a average of 8 weeks to arrive. So, it was a great surprise that they came within 5 weeks.! 1.21 […]
20230104 Razor Crest Lighting: Navigation Lights
RED NAVIGATION LIGHTS One thing I did not realise until very much later is that the Razor Crest does have a set of red Navigation lights. There are no other Star Wars ships that I can think of which has these as standard. THE EXACT LOCATION I started to re-watch the Series and boy, there […]
