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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 …
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 lighting working circuit
In a previous post I’d promised a working example for the basic starship lighting circuit using an ATtiny85. Well here it is, …
Starship lighting
Here’s a quick preview of the lighting circuit I have planned for the 1/350th scale Polar Lights Enterprise refit model that I’ve …
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 …
Using transistor as switch
I’ve been asked how to flash multiple LEDs using a timing signal from a 555 timer chip. It’s a good question because it’s something I …
Variable power supply
As part of my 2014 resolution to learn enough about electronics to be dangerous, I’ve built a variable power supply to use …