The Castafiore Emerald - The Supercolor-Tryphonar

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14 25 April, 15:50

Greg Baker Autor
So here's an interesting Tintin project I've been working on for a while now. The hardest part was getting the electronics to work. After beating an ESP32 microcontroller into submission I was finally able to get my tiny screen to display the video/audio clip I trimmed from the Tintin animated series. With that success, I moved on to 3D design of the awesome Professor Calculus invention, The Supercolor-Tryphonar (as seen in the Castafiore Emerald album). Next up... 3D printing and assembly.

In the meantime, here's the proof-of-concept video...

youtube.com/shorts/U..?si=u-ootNYEMdGWY8cm

2 25 April, 15:55

Alec K
Man, your electronics skills are master level! Taking a seat 👍

26 April, 11:47

Robert Podkoński
That's a terrific job!

26 April, 13:16

gorby
Amazing stuff Greg!

26 April, 14:56

Thomas Espe
👀

26 April, 16:44

Cuajete
Wow... I have no words to express that I can't miss this wit!

26 April, 17:54

Greg Baker Autor
Thanks guys! First batch of files just came off the 3D printer. Will need to make a couple of adjustments to the screen size, but it's looking good so far. Also, I knew the steel bar supports were going to be too small to print properly (they warp while they dry), but I've got a bit of metal screen that I can cut into strips. Hopefully will look better and actually support the thing.

1 26 April, 19:25

Greg Baker Autor
Ok, so all the main pieces are off the 3D printer and I've cut the metal sheet into the straightest strips I could manage. It was quite difficult to bend it tightly along a single line. Much thicker than a regular PE part, but hopefully will look the part.

I had a lot of difficulty getting the electronics to work. I followed another maker's project (there are several versions of the ESP32 Mini TV projects on YouTube), but it was both a hardware problem because none of them seemed to wire up the screen's backlight, but until I did, I had not even a flicker. It was also a software problem because the library code was out of date, so I needed to go backwards to make it compatible, which led to other problems. Anyway, I vowed to use my Easter long weekend to either solve it for good, or give up forever (yeah, right!). After sourcing each of the issues one by one, I finally got it to work. Next is the assembly!

1 28 April, 04:05