Welcome to the first article in "Dabbling in 3D Printing."
A friend of mine, Michael, makes custom action figures (he's not afraid to say "dolls") as a hobby. His home office is filled with dioramas of scenes from different cartoons. He makes all his own doll costumes and props. I learned the rudiments of 3D printing by designing and printing a few larger props for him that he wasn't sure how to fabricate.
Welcome to my first article in "Dabbling in Electronics."
I was working on a project using a Microchip PIC microcontroller to drive a bare, 4-digit, LCD segment display chip, and I wasn't seeing anything displayed. I began to question whether I damaged the LCD segment display. But I didn't know how to test it without risking damaging it. This article is about what I learned and what I implemented to test my LCD.
My first, and so far only, published book is Fisher King: Percival's Descent, a science fiction space opera with elements inspired by the Arthurian legends.
What got me into playing with computer animation is that I wanted to try my hand a producing a YouTube book trailer for my novel Fisher King: Percival's Descent, a sci-fi space opera. The Fisher King of the title is an interstellar freighter serving as a setting in the book.