{"id":630,"date":"2017-04-24T19:15:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:15:35","slug":"zvezdarevell-star-destroyer-lighting-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Zvezda\/Revell Star Destroyer Lighting Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst waiting for the Zvezda Star Destroyer to become available through Revell in Europe, I have started putting together a speculative lighting controller board.<\/p>\n<p>This features a flickering effect for the 3 main engines and the 4 auxiliary engines. It also provides 12 additional static (non flickering) LEDs to provide light for the windows via fibre optic strands.<\/p>\n<p>The board has been designed primarily for battery power and has a total current draw of around 60mA &#8211; which should give may hours of operation on a set of 3 AAs. Alternatively there is also an on-board voltage regulator that can be fed from a 7-12v wall adaptor.<\/p>\n<p>This test build features cool white LEDs for the engines and warm white for the windows<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_9591.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-635\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_9591-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_9727.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-636\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_9727-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_9729.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_9729-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst waiting for the Zvezda Star Destroyer to become available through Revell in Europe, I have started putting together a speculative lighting controller board. This features a flickering effect for the 3 main engines and the 4 auxiliary engines. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=630\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10,4],"tags":[31,36,34,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}