Versions (PCB Designs)

Over the years I've tweaked the design of the LED and AVR boards slightly to help make assembly or manufacture simpler. Here's a rundown of all the variants!

##Original Run : December 2013 The LED boards are noticeably different from all the other runs. In an effort to keep pricing down I made them modular, so the rear logic LED board is actually made up of two 48 LED boards soldered together. The fronts are the same 48 LED boards, though only 40 of those are actually used (the AVR board tells one row from each board to sit it out). These were all Oshpark purple boards, and the back of the boards sported the Royal Engineers of Naboo (REON) logo.

##The Sequel : September 2014 This time around the modular idea was scrapped. The rear logic LED board became a single PCB with 96 LEDs and Kenny's photo/McQuarrie artwork on the back. The front LED logic LED boards became a little smaller and have C3PO artwork on the back. Plastics and hardware also changed slightly this run - since the LED boards were more symmetrical some of the plastics no longer needed the cuts to indicate orientation.

##The Revengening! : June 2015 For this run the front LED boards were made slightly smaller to try and help with difficulties that some builders were having with mounting the previous version. In many cases the front logics get mounted so close together that there's just not enough space to have them both on top of each other; so a tiny amount was trimmed from the bottom of the front LED board to help with this. The rear LED board and AVR board remained unchanged.

##Logic Reactor : Late 2016 This is an all new design, featuring smaller LEDs (SK6812), simpler fiber-optic placement, a more powerful single driver board and easier mounting.