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Battlestar Chronometer v2 (Part 4 – Animations)

Posted on 28th November 202328th November 2023by Tom

With all of the Chronometer PCBs assembled this post takes a look at some of the animations I’ve created to show it off.

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Battlestar Chronometer v2 – Reference

Posted on 24th September 202324th September 2023by Tom

This post provides instructions for using the Battlestar Chronometer PCB.

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PCB Pin Badges – 65 Blinky

Posted on 1st July 20232nd July 2023by Tom

While I’m struggling to find the time to finish assembling the Chronometers, I did manage to throw together a new pin badge – this time with blinking LEDs!

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Battlestar Chronometer v2 (Part 3 – Assembly)

Posted on 28th April 202323rd September 2023by Tom

The Easter Bank Holiday weekend was the perfect opportunity to get through a lot of soldering.

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Battlestar Chronometer v2 (Part 2 – PCB Fabrication)

Posted on 8th March 202327th March 2023by Tom

The PCBs have arrived and a few things have changed since the last post so here’s a quick update.

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Battlestar Chronometer v2 (Part 1)

Posted on 7th February 20237th March 2023by Tom

At the culmination of what I’ll now call “version 1” of the Battlestar Chronometer, I highlighted a few things that I’d like to improve in a future version. It didn’t take long for me to start on “version 2”.

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BSG Chronometer (Part 4 – Finale?)

Posted on 21st October 20229th February 2023by Tom

It’s been a couple of years since I last posted about my Battlestar Galactica Chronometer. In this post I’ll wrap up all of the progress since then and hopefully bring the project to an end.

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Audio Switcher

Posted on 23rd July 20219th February 2023by Tom

Like many I’ve been working from home over the last year or so. While I have a reasonable speaker system connected to my desktop PC, I can’t use it while I’m working on my laptop. The solution as ever lies in a custom PCB!

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Audio Attenuator № 2

Posted on 15th September 20209th February 2023by Tom

The volume control knob for my PC speakers has been intermittent as long as I’ve had them. Sometimes the left or right channel drops out entirely, other times one of the channels is quieter than the other. I’m not sure why it took me so long to realise I had the means to replace it but here we are.

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BSG Chronometer (Part 3)

Posted on 22nd May 20209th February 2023by Tom

The last time I worked on this project was two years ago and it ended up in a box after I tore one of the pads off. I’ve had some spare time recently so I decided it would be fun to solder 120 LEDs on a fresh PCB.

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