James' R5-D4

After months (years) of saying I must get R5’s mojo back, I’ve made a start on getting his motivator system back up and running. Well done J...

June 2021 Decided (last month May) that I was going to be the start of getting R5's 'Bad Motivator' …….back installed again. It ...

So after a bit more fine tuning, the TCD is now complete. The TCD..... The 'Trading Card Dispenser' I was still waiting f...

So I have now named this project ' TCD ' lol. Monday I started to design up a 'box' to put the electronics in for ease. Th...

The problem I found with the e-Cig bracket is that the single screw didn't hold it in place. Also the position of the screw was actually...

As with most of my Blog, the assumption is that you the reader don't want to read about 'how long I held this in position for' o...

Some good news and some not so good news. My 4 pack of fake CCTV dome camera's arrived yesterday. And spent no time stripping two of t...

So Saturday I set up the electrics so I could easily work on them outside of R5's body. excuse the hanging regulator, [mid left] this...

Fitted the XT60 fly lead and plug into R5's dome, then looked at the Motivator electrical system. When testing the Bad Motivator syste...

So I was happy that the pop-up motivator system working, but not really with them ended both at the same time. As, well, in the film, after...

Installation Time! Got home last night and started on fixing the electronics board into position. But soon realised that this position was...

Last night I trimmed board down the board so it can fit in this position. Will have to reposition the timer relay. Dome wires previou...

Not had much time to work on this recently, but got back onto Monday. I'd found a suitable piece of MDF that I could mount the compone...

Components arrived at the weekend, sooner than I'd expected lol. But wasn't able to try them out till Tuesday. As always the instr...