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Habe a look at the arduino microcontroller board. It's an atmega board with integrated usb port and a nice and simple ide. You don't need any programmer, just an usb cable. The Arduino nano hat 14 I/O pins and is small enough to fit in a model: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardNano - That one c...

I always use 6 inch cold cathode lights for the nacelles. For the voyager you have to break away the casing. They're cheap, very bright and fit perfectly. Only downside is that you need 12 volts. The driver board fits nicely in the hull. EDIT: Here's a photo of my voyager with cathode nacelles: http...

Put the LEDs on the stationary portion, with focusing lenses shining the light onto the end of bundled FOs which would then take the light to the outer surface of the model. The end of the bundle is located at the rotation axis, so the light is constant. For flashing lights, some fibers can be loca...

Hi,

I just got a Babylon 5 from eBay and was wondering if someone build a rotating version yet?

regards,
Rick

The small headphone jacks (2.5mm) are a good idea. I looked at some jacks from my local electronics store and they have an outer diameter of 3.8mm - that is almost exactly the diameter of the small rings on the docking clamps. But the jack doesn't fit in the tips of the pylons :( So I'm thought abou...

Hi, as this is my first real post and I couldn'd find a 'new members' forum I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Rick and I'm from Hamburg/Germany. I'm building models for about a half year now. I came to it through my other hobby - collecting and restorating pinball machines. I bought an Indian...