Recent content by Rustymetaldog

I'm sorry you now have MY old problem! Seems like the Adafruit is working well - the sketch is easy to modify what's displayed, and it WORKS! Even with the NANO!!! The pinout diagram for the NANO is different everywhere you look - trust me, get the Adafruit and you'll be very happy - life's...

Propmaster2000 - I bought the Adafruit display - it is INFINITELY better than the previous way I was attemptimg this. Only 4 wires between the LED and the UNO, AND it works with the NANO, though the pinout diagrams for the NANO seem to differ everywhere you look... but I got it working. I...

Hello! I'm having much more sucess using an Adafruit backpack display! Just found them and trying to understand the code to make it do what I need...

propmaster 2000 - yes, I can see how this changes the speed, thnaks! My only issue is I can't get any of it to work with my Nano. And re your quesiton, once it gets to 0000 it just stops, displaying 0000 until I press the button to reset to 9999 when it begins the countdown afresh....

James Purcell - which arduino forum, another one here on the RPF or the actual Arduino Site? Send me a link if there's somewheremore specific on the RPF to post this? I was hoping this could be an interesting prop-based thing some of us would be interested in like the Iron Man Arduino threads...

Propmaster 2000 thank you so much for trying this AND making a movie of it! Very much appreciated, I'm glad it's working for you - but will it work on a Nano? That's my problem, I have it working fine on my Uno, but want it to work on my Nano.... If you can try it on a Nano AND get it to work...

Hello RPF'ers, I'm trying to conquer the world of Arduino to make this countdown timer prop. Now this will seem pretty simple to those of you who know what you're doing, but I have spent HOURS and HOURS to get to this point, and am now stuck, which is where you come in! I'm making a...

Hmmmm... interesting! I'm currently working on a 1:6 scale Sylvester McCoy kind of Thunderbirds/WHO puppet, but it's not quite "lifesize"! But hopefully of interest, you can see the sculpt next to a Photoshopped version of the same sculpt with the colour added in quickly, to give an idea of its...

Hi All, Some of you may have seen this before on one of the other Doctor Who propmaking forums, but I thought it may be of interest here too, either way, here he is! So, I really liked the Tetraps, and there was some great model work on this story with some miniature Tetraps made for a...

Beautiful Imperial! Nice photos too!

Hey, I worked on Sam Neil's Captain's chair, the big one that he piloted the ship from. It was a fibreglass cast of a chair attached to a kind of dental framework, to make it look more unusual. It then had 2 flymo leafblowers attached to the front sides, plus tonnes of other detailling. It...

Oh God, this has ruined my day big-time... But it is a good time to ask "how many Hoggles were made for Labyrinth?" surely not just one? If anybody knows, it might make us all feel better? :(

Whatever you do, do not mix up a bucket of plaster and put your hand inside to make a mold, you will not be able to remove your hand, and the heat generated by the plaster curing will burn all the flesh off your fingers. This may sound obvious, even alarmist, but somebody did this a while back...

Drooling... :)

Hey, loving this build, it has a lovely style to it and lots of heart! Nice to not be so constrained by screen used accuracy, you're going to have a really cute Droid soon!