Starship Modeler Discussion Forums

I bought the first generation board for its Photon torpedo effect and was very happy with it. The 2nd Gen board has nav and strobe lights as well:

http://www.starling-tech.com/index1.php?id=gen2-torpedo

But for that matter, you could do this with a microcontroller and then you'd only have one IC. :) I totally agree with you there, I use the Arduino board (30$) to create the code and then export it to a cheap AT-tiny microcontroller (1$ -2$). Being that you code what you want, the sky is really the...

Hi there, The best start for finding out what you need is to plan how many LEDs you want/need and use a LED calculator to find out how best to hook them up. http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz for example, If you are running a 9volt system, then you could put 6 red LEDs in a parallel circuit as each of t...

If you are going to use an Arduino, you can export your code to an ATtiny85 microcontroller for example, and then just hook up your power/GND and LEDs to one or all of its 5 Output pins and you are good to go, and you do not need to put the much larger arduino in your build. Each output can support ...

An effective way to interface a FO from a LED is to drill a hole into the top of the LED about half way into it above the diode internal guts. I use a CA glue to bind it. Are you serious Don? I always considered CA to be the Angel of death for FO. aside from potentially reducing the amount of light...

I think what Hobbit is talking about is a potentialmeter a.k.a. a little knob that by turing increases or decreases the frequency. I do not have a lot of experience with these but it us usually just hooking up power to one pin and ground to the other. there are a lot of HowTos out there in google th...

I do not have the lighting kit, but there should not be any difference from the strobe to any other LED, I am assuming that it is just a reference to the strobe light on the enterprise it is suppose to represent. i.e. the strobe nav light is a generally brighter, quicker flashing (approx 0.5 sec on,...

I have also seen it here in Germany with a "sparkle" effect. Again, it would be much nicer if this was availible in smaller diameters.

http://www.lichtfaser.de/images/Lichtleitfaser11.jpg

I am also doing a Galactica (the TOS version) and I have the Arduino but I did not want to put an Arduino in the model... seemed to me like a little overkill, I am exporting the code to a couple microcontrollers. the Atmel ATtiny85 is about the size of your fingertip, costs about 2 cents and has 5 o...