Monthly Archives: November 2020

Introducing Power*Star

 in Blog  tagged announcement / distribution / hub / new product / power / Power*Star / usb / USB3

If you’ve been following this blog you already know that I’ve been working (for what seems like years, but was really just 10 months) on a new product, which I have named ‘Power*Star’.  In my earlier posts I told you about the process of designing and manufacturing the product, and now that it’s almost ready to ship it’s time to tell you what Power*Star is all about. The core functionality of Power*Star (abbreviated P*S) is quite simple:  It provides a central distribution point for both the power (mostly 12VDC) and data (USB) typically needed for astrophotography.  In the most basic […]

How It’s Made (W.O. style)

 in Blog  tagged CNC Router / dovetail / laser engraving / PCB / Power*Star / printed circuit board / saddle / test fixture

  While waiting for a Covid-19 vaccine, if you’ve already watched everything on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, etc., you might want to check out “How It’s Made” on the Discovery Channel.  In this blog I’ll do a similar treatment of what I do to fabricate the enclosure for my new product, Power*Star.  The product isn’t quite ready to ship yet, so I’ll leave the product description for a later blog.  I and a colleague have been working pretty much non-stop on this since February, and the vast majority of that work would not be terribly interesting, and perhaps difficult to […]