A bit more progress, most of the electronic stuff is together. Here is the front scanning circuit. I just ran it for 24hrs to make sure there are no issues.
Here is a quick video to show the final flash sequence i went with. I see at least 2 different sequneces in the movie. One at the begining a little slower and where the center light stays on longer then the rest and a quicker one that does not. I went with the former and did not concern myself too much with exact timing, i went with what speed looked good to me. It looks a bit choppy in the vid but it is not in real life.
Here is the rear panel light circuit. I was going to make them blink randomly but decided to make another type scanning circuit. I can't wire it permently until the panel is painted and i need to make the viewer hood to do that. It's next on the list.
The LCD works!! Got it wire up. For some reason when i copy pics to the memory card the camera crops them when it displays them , when you take pics with the camera and display them it doesn't. I'll figure th image thing after. I want to make line drawings of all the weapons on a black background and then load it in.
Here is the switch setup for the camera so i can change the pics forward and back. The knob doesn't turn, you just move it left and right to change pics. I still need to trim the bar and either glue or tap it and put a securing set screw.
Here is the wireless receiver relay board after getting cut and smaller relays used on a remote board. It's the only way i could get this thing to fit in it. I powered it and the modified remote transmitter last night and everything works great.
Here it is before and after
And here it is all in a sardine can. There is a 5volt regulator i am putting in it too for my scanning circuits, Laser and yellow and red lights. I am thinking i will make a power relay board to supply everything from 2x 12v Lipo batteries and 2 voltage regulators, 1 in the sight for the lights and another in the pod for the servo control board. That is if i use the servo control board. I may have to step up from RC servos to robotic servo motors because the weight of it all. Not sure though as i am not sure how to do the sight pod mechanism yet. For the camera i am sticking to the cameras AAA batteries and holder for simplicity and troublefree operation.. I will either change them once in a while or put in rechargables and run a wire to charge it. As you can see i left some real estate in the center of the pod for the sight arm cross bar and space to put something going up to hold the pod part. I have a gallon of laminating epoxy coming and some aluminum flat bar too and will figure that out next. I need someway to hold the top to the sight to the arms.
and lastly, there is a red LED or laser thing on the front of the ZF. A few months back i was looking for a replacement laser tube for my T2 soldier rifle and found a vintage laser pointer. I was disappointed it didn't have the HeNe tube style laser but it did have this hi powered diode style. The nose just happens to be the same size as hole on my front block. It had a big headsink on the front but since i was about to stuff it in a big piece of aluminum i machined off the sink. I'll put some heatshrink tubing on the board. Suprised the thing works afer being spun on the lathe but it does.