
Just a quick demo of the Reliant shield powering up from Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. An Enterprise is in the works as well. The laser etching of the backlit panel is by Matt from the modeling forums. The sound IS coming from the model. Note that the circuit design supports any number of LEDs in any color (up to 64), and can make them brighter if desired (they are set to be slightly dimmed right now.) The whole display (once the backlight is added) only draws about 20 mA when all lights are off, about 200 mA with just the backlight, and about 320 mA with the backlight and the shields active. It can run off of anything from 4.5v (lowest we tested, anything lower would be out of spec but may still work) to 12v, including USB. The delay between LEDs is completely adjustable, as is the sound that plays with every LED (the sound could play every 5 LEDs, or every other LED, or whatever.) The pitch and duration of the sound can be changed. Eventually there will be a real green backlight, we are just using a computer monitor to show what it will look like with the panel backlit while the power-up sequence takes place. The backlight will be switchable on and off with the same switch that powers up the shields. the switch has three states, all the way up (for everything off), centered (just backlight on) and down (backlight and shields on, shield does power-up sequence.) flipping from everything on (switch down) to backlight only (switch centered) plays the shields powering down <b>...</b>
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