I added a construction tutorial for the bussards here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1w1n-JKdxg&t=11s
I can't decide if I should mount my Metro Mini horizontally in the engineering hull or vertically into the dorsal. I've been working on modifying TShark's code to get different light patterns from the rolled NeoPixel strips, but I don't have the ParaGrafix engine fans yet to check them out. I'm not planning on lighting any windows. If I mount vertically, I can plug directly into the USB at the underside of the engineering hull and re-program it at any time. Horizontally, and all I can get to is the power connector I mount instead, unless I do something funky with the deflector mount... Any suggestions will be welcome. I've already seen that I can drive all of the LEDs from the USB port with a large enough USB power supply. I have separated out the left and right NeoPixel strips in software, so I can roll both of them in the same direction, make a spare, and still only have used half of the roll. The "right" strip is simply driven backwards from the "left." With separate inputs, I can also have different pixels light up in blue and green between the two at the same time, so that one is not just the mirror image of the other.