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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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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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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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DIY Ambilight – Update

Posted on 22nd February 20209th February 2023by Tom

I’ve been working on the Prismatik code to get it ready to go back onto the main branch so I thought I’d post a little update.

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DIY Ambilight

Posted on 1st February 20209th February 2023by Tom

When I moved house I disassembled my bookshelf lighting and my Mote kit has been sitting in a box since. I’ve been looking for something to do with them and it struck me that the Mote sticks are the perfect size to be mounted behind a monitor for a DIY Ambilight setup.

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Xmas Fireplace Ornament PCB

Posted on 10th December 20189th February 2023by Tom

Inspired by seeing Xmas-themed-PCBs all over Twitter, an idea popped into my head. Two days later, I’d sent off a new PCB for manufacture.

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