Be Aware of ATLAS – STAR WARS - Death Star II
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Be Aware of ATLAS – STAR WARS - Death Star II
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Build from Bandai Death Star II plastic model. Major features includes :
✅Light and Sound effect
✅MP3 Player
✅InfraRED remote control
✅Temperature sensor
✅3 minute timer
Blog : https://kwluk717.blogspot.com/2020/12/be-aware-of-atlas-star-wars-death-star.html
Video Playlist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhIPugw6AwI&list=PLD1NXJYyujL1DD_t7BlC7_aFQDOm5GLOe
Supplies
- 0402 White LED
- WS2812B x 9
- Arduino Pro Mini x 1
- DFPlayer
- 10K Thermistor x 1
- IR Receiver x 1
Stormtrooper
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- Concept from the Atlas Farnese sculpture at the Naples National Archaeological Museum
- Modified by Fuchiko toy
- Cut both legs and arms then reassemble again according to figure design
- Mainly gloss white color with gloss clear coating
Platform
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- The shape of platform is also reference to the sculpture
- Setup by 3cm diameter plastic plate
- Covered with #400 sandpaper to pretend the raw surface, then coat with #500 gray primer and small amount of flat white color
Death Star Superlaser
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- Built by 8 x WS2812B
- (7 or 8?) after reference to many related articles, The Superlaser of Death Star I is surrounded by 8 x lasers while Death Star II is surrounded by 7 and the 8th is located at Center
Death Star Internal
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- Give some fancy gimmick and just want to give some soft effect, the LED effect is designed to follow with temperature change
- Cut the core area and use recreated by ball pen transparent parts
- The thermistor is setup on the topmost area of the Death Star II
- The core is designed with ability to color change from Red to Blue, which programmed with reference to HK temperature range of 15ºC-30ºC
Outer Shell
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- Target the outer shell to be attach/detachable and seamless surface as possible, therefore they are cut by panel line and reassemble again
LED
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- LED distributed internally and major package are SMD 0603 and SMD 0402
- 0.3mm diameter holes is require for a better view but that take quite much effect to build, several narrow gaps width of ~0.3mm were made. That still look acceptable
Micro Controller
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- Arduino Pro Mini is used which located in the large space at the front
- Sound effect is using dfplayer, with addition of thermistor for temperature sensor and infrared component for remote control
- For the power socket, it is made by copper tube together with plastic tube
Thermistor Circuit
The thermistor circuit is simple connected with a 10K resistor to work, the arduino program would take the following function to retrieve current temperature for further process.
///--------------------------------------------------------
#define ThermistorPin 14 // Thermistor A0
int Vo; float R1 = 10000; float logR2, R2, T, Tc; float c1 = 1.009249522e-03, c2 = 2.378405444e-04, c3 = 2.019202697e-07;
float getTemp(){
Vo = analogRead(ThermistorPin);
R2 = R1 * (1023.0 / (float)Vo - 1.0);
logR2 = log(R2);
T = (1.0 / (c1 + c2*logR2 + c3*logR2*logR2*logR2));
Tc = T - 273.15;
return Tc; }
///---------------------------------------------------------
IR Circuit
Here a KSM-603LM is used and arduion program is using the IRremote.h library.
///--------------------------------------------------------
#define IR_ReceiverPin 2 //IR Receiver (int0) D2 *
#define KEY_Play XXXX // Play Key of decoded value
#define KEY_Mute XXXX // Mute Key of decoded value
IRrecv IRCommand(IR_ReceiverPin);
decode_results irCommand; uint32_t irCode = 0; //IR Code Received
void setup(){
IRCommand.enableIRIn(); // Start the receiver}
void IRAction(){
//IR Command
if (IRCommand.decode(&irCommand)) {
irCode = irCommand.value;
IRCommand.resume(); // Receive the next value }
switch (irCode) { case KEY_ENTER:{
//.....do something
break;}
irCode=0;
}