Teeces and related things

Not a lot done today. I wound up ordering the last bits and pieces I will need for the Teeces lighting system. Unfortunately, several bits are on various slow boats from China, but hopefully by the end of the month I'll have everything. In the meantime, I've got enough to at least start soldering.

Interesting note: according to my part spreadsheet, I have expended $125 in Teeces parts including the PC Boards, resisters, IC sockets, LED controllers, the Arduino and of course the LEDs themselves. This sounds like a lot, but if I go on to Astromech, I can buy a kit pre-assembled... for $275.

Yeah.

Anyway, not my first soldering job and almost certainly not my last. So no worries there.

In the meantime, I did some more work ont he front logic frames. I printed them out, but the top one needed to be tapered a bit because of the dome shape. So I stopped by the makerspace real quick to make use of their belt sander, and had it fitting in no time. Check it out:

As you can see, they fit nicely in the inner dome, and will flush up with the blue frame just fine. Obviously I'm going to have to smooth them out a bit and paint them before mounting the actual LED grids behind them, but that's no big. Tempting though it is to leave 'em green ;)

Anyway. I need to get things measured up and nailed down properly as far as meshing the inner and outer domes. When I do that, I can secure the radar eye and use that to secure them. I should be getting static holoprojectors before too long, with any luck, as well as a rear logic display (he hasn't released those 3D models to the public yet, alas). Anyway, at this rate, I reckon I'll be done with the dome sometime in February and off and running on the body. We shall see...