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Jennifer Petkus

How to unfold and fold the Brompton bike

Despite having folded and unfolded my Brompton hundreds of times, I still sometimes draw a blank how to start or forget an …

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Before we begin, I thought I’d warn you about a common “gotcha” you might encounter when dealing with integrated circuits. This involves …

Enterprise refit arboretum

I can’t pretend that my arboretum is anything special. It simply serves the purpose of being something behind the arboretum windows on …

Support socket for Enterprise refit

One of the reasons I’ve delayed for so long in building my 1/350th Enterprise refit is that I could never figure out …

Lights and sound

There are a mind-numbing number of lights on the Enterprise refit and, of course, it’s up to you whether to include every …

What You’ll Need

At a minimum, you’ll need these tools: Breadboards, on which you’ll test circuits Jumper wires to connect the components on the breadboard …

What You’ll Need to Know

This book is not intended to teach you everything you need to know before you start building your starship lighting circuit. I’m …

How to Light the Enterprise

This post begins a series of articles on how to light the Enterprise refit. This is a work in progress as I’m …

Starship light guide work in progress

I recently started writing How to Light the Enterprise as a free downloadable guide and was getting into the home stretch when …

Simulating phaser fire with NeoPixels

The above is a prototype of a circuit to simulate a phaser array on a starship such as the Enterprise-D or Voyager …