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Oh cool. Do you any more pictures with a little more context? I'm having trouble visualizing where exactly these are. Right now, it's not a big deal, since I'm doing a USS Larson conversion, so I ended up putting my own strobes on it on the saucer top and bottom. When I build the Enterprise, I'll do...

Thanks.

I saw this one a while ago, but I'm not sure it can be applied to the TOS ships.

I came up with some locations that probably aren't canon, but it's my ship anyways, right?

I can't seem to find any reference as to where (if any) strobes are on the TOS Federation ships (including the Enterprise). Does anyone know the locations of the (pre-refit) strobes?

I'm doing some conversions of the TOS Enterprise and want to make sure my strobe locations are accurate.

Thanks!

Hi all,

I think I saw a thread on here at some point about this, but can't find it now.

I want to have some random thruster effects on my Star Trek ships where I want it to look like the ship computer is trying to maintain the ship's position.

Anyone know how to do this?

Could you share who you found? I'd like a circuit with this effect too!

Madman Lighting wrote:Just about any 12V DC wall transformer will work as long as it makes at least 100mA...

What about 18V DC? Would that work with this system?

I strongly agree with something that is modular. Perhaps a central lighting system, like your Deluxe-8 and then be able to add various items that do things like photon torpedoes, etc. Each modular item can be used on its own, but linked to the other modules allows it to be even more impressive. Then...

That's awesome. Thanks very much for the info. I'm trying to learn as much as I can so your advice is much appreciated.

Yes, you can connect LEDs in parallel but there's a catch. There are 4 regulators on the card, each will "source" 18mA of current. This means that LEDs in parallel will share that current and be less bright. NO, you cannot hook the regulators together to get "more". If you're wo...

Would it be possible to connect multiple LEDs to a pin in parallel? I want to avoid having all LEDs go out if one burns out.

I was just in an electronics supply store last night and got some HD 15 pin dsub connectors (i.e. VGA connectors), so I picked up a bunch. I will likely use that for more complicated lighting systems, but the 8 pins on a CAT 5 connector will do fine for my current project.

Great ideas here. I was thinking of using a dsub as well, however, it's a little big. My idea is to create a cable that can add to the diorama, looking like a fueling hose or something. I like the idea of 9 pins though, so i'm torn. Is there anything else that has that many pins that could do it wi...

Really, any plug will do what you want. But most of them will not be a good structural connection to hold the model rigidly in place. Stereo headphone jacks will be fairly rigid, but it will allow the model to spin. The micro plugs and others of that size won't spin, but they won't support the mode...

I could do it with my kit pretty easily, its already got a microcontroller on it and the software is all setup to read brightness levels from a table. I dont know what people are willing to pay for such a beastie and now that I've read this thread it might be a little unethical to "borrow"...

AVRs (the microcontroller used in the Arduino) tend to be much easier to program in assembly language than PICs. They can also be programmed in C and there are excellent free C compilers and assemblers available for the AVR. Ya, programming them in C is what attracted me greatly. I already have yea...

In the future it probably will be arduino and sequino stuff because the basic boards are so cheap and easy to program (i'm especially charmed with the arduino nano since it is so small). Besides, i'll have to delve into the arduino stuff some more because i'm going to build me a RepRap next year. B...

jwrjr wrote:Look carefully at the VFX torpedo. That is exactly what is going on. It uses an 8 pin PIC.

Is there a particular PIC I should try this with? It seems like there is a plethora of PIC chips out there.

You need electronics for your models? Check out these sites: http://www.arduino.cc http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/aduino_gift_guide.html to get a taste of it: www.sweelssen.com/v3_arduino_small.pdf they have miniboards and nanoboards that are fully programmable with usb port. easy to make...

As far as i can tell by looking at the firing sequences frame by frame, there are actualy 2 colors, 1 orange/red ramps up to full in approx. 0.6 seconds, holds full for 1 second, and ramps down in approx. 0.6 seconds. The second color is a 1/10 sec white or blue flash exactly in the middle of the 1...

drache wrote:Voodoo's kit is really cool, but it's $90 - a bit too steep for me.

Has anyone purchased this kit? I want a review of it before I buy it, plus details about how it works.