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 …
Beautifully made alcohol stove
This is a great video because it’s obvious this stove was made by a scale modeler, based on the tools he has. …
Saved offline Google maps
These instructions only pertain to saving maps from the Google Maps app on your mobile device. Although you can create and save maps …
Creating WordPress theme from scratch tutorial
This post is more a note to myself to remember this excellent set of tutorials by Brad Schiff. He shows the development …
Shop tour continues: Tool swapping
I don’t have room to mount every bench tool I have. Of course my most commonly used tool is the bench vise, but …
Deflector dish glow update
Above is the circuit I created to simulate the amber/blue deflector dish glow of a Federation starship. Although the timing isn’t perfect, I find …
Deflector dish glow
After puzzling out how to use a transistor to turn on multiple LEDs using the output from a 555 chip, I’m now …