Reply To: [unofficial weekender] silent weekend

[blinky465 17028xp 3]

@sundancer – so I made a quick and dirty “larson scanner” from a PIC 16F1825 (running at 1Mhz, with lots of sleep commands, to reduce battery consumption) and etched a PCB to try things out

There’s no way of avoiding spoilers – it worked a treat! (though the bloom is enhanced thanks to the camera auto white balance; it’s much clearer in real life!)

I balanced the head on – I need to get some “proper” glue to make sure the LEDs are held in place for the whole time that it dries – I don’t want the LEDs rotating inside the head while the glue goes off, to make him look “cock-eyed”.

I’ve got to wait for the glue to be fully dried before I can paint him. It’ll be the usual trick – blue tack over the visor, a coat of primer (probably skipping the white zenith stage, though I might use grey for some edging and then hit it with Contrast Black Templar) then over-painting the helmet to get rid of any “light leakage” so the LED only glows out of the visor.

It’s early days, but I reckon this might just work.

It turns out, @sundancer , that you’re not a mad lunatic after all…..