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1. Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 24 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners2. 3 mA deep sleep mode 1 5 A high power LED drive Speaker 4 to 8 ohm Audio output Power 2W Accent LEDs 2 Accent LEDs pad current source 18 mA max per pad Handles momentary or latching for blade activation Blaster Blocking amp Lockup Fx Blade Flickering Fx Blade Shimmering on Clash Anti Power Off technology A POP Foc Flash on Clash 8 stage accent LED sequencer WAV file support 8 bit 22 050 ksample sec DAC SD card support up to 2GB FAT16 or FAT32 beta Sandisk and Kingston brands preferred Tools and Parts required to install operate the module an ESD safe soldering station amp soldering wire 60 40 1mm OD or eq pliers flat and cutting a Digital Multimeter DMM strongly advised so useful a latching or momentary switch for the blade ignition and a momentary switch for the auxiliary switch wire amp heat shrink rechargeable Batteries recharge port canon 2 1mm socket appropriate Battery charger a USB SD card reader accepting micro SD card or a regular SD card reader with a micro to regular SD card adapter acomputer a digital audio editor software handling WAV files if you wish to create your own sound fonts Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respectiv
3. Animated Accent LEDs There are many ways to pimp your saber hilt using additional small LEDs further referred in this document as Accent LEDs Petit Crouton features a 8 stage sequencer that allows the user to setup a blinking animated sequence for up to 2 LEDs The board outputs 3 3V 18mA max per accent LED pad User must ensure the used accent LEDs have a forward voltage Vf lower or equal to 3 3V Accent LEDs Resistor Footprints O i Crovutonctns Rey 22 eS Pe me z sesgragee g1 V2661 26 SHOP O Qw NI Accent LEDs Ground Return Accent LEDs PADs On the picture above the red arrows point to the positive pads of the accent leds use small gauge wire to send those signals to the positive of the LEDs Flat Ribbon cable can be very handy for that purpose Then both negatives of the LEDs return to a single pad pointed by the blue arrow ground return The resistor pads on the PC L are pre bridged You will need to use an external resistor for the accent LEDs Calculating resistors for LEDs R Vsupply Vled LedCurrent In our case Vsupply is the voltage the board provides to power the accent LEDs ie 3 3V The Vled is the forward voltage of the LED usually referred as Vf in the datasheet The led current has to be decided by the user depending on the brightness and the maximum rating of the used LED 5 to15 mA are fairly common for most accent LEDs As an example let s consider a 1 6 volt LED
4. can be edited in place on the SD card To simplify the update process put the new sounds on the SD overwrite the old ones Then select the whole contents of the SD card and copy it in a temporary directory folder on the hard disk Format then the card and next copy the files back to the SD card in one run Q what s the meaning of the beeps when the module starts A it means that a file is missing or hasn t been found It can be the boot sound or the configuration files Three beeps generally mean that many important files haven t been found boot wav config txt leds txt Q can I rename the sounds on the SD card A no except the force wav file This file is usually provided with the sound font and is meant to provide an alternative to blaster blocking when using the aux switch ie producing a force fx sound instead of a blaster blocking fx Q I wired a rumbling motor in my hilt and now I have swings triggered while the hilt rests on a flat surface A The motor makes the board vibrating enough so that it s interpreted as a swing Reduce the speed of the motor and or mechanically isolate the board from the motor Increasing Is can also help but it will make swings more difficult to execute Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 23
5. shows the doo 50 accent LEDs with a chasing AT pattern The state of each LED is lt 02 10 represented either by O off or 1 do2 50 on Each s line defines a ar pattern of the 2 LEDs state s04 00 while the d line is the duration do4 50 of the pattern delay 05 01 do5 50 s06 10 do6 50 s07 11 dov 50 The delay between each state can be different for each state line it s not necessary to have a pattern evolution with a constant timing A value of 0 for a delay line will stop the sequencer Hence it s possible to have an accent LED animation when the saber starts and the animation stop at the end of the 8 stages or before when a 0 delay is found in the file When setting random to 1 the sequencer will generate a random pattern at each stage of the sequence ideal for a changing or non conventional animation The delays will remain the ones specified in the sequence The delay can go up to 32 000 which correspond roughly to 1 minute It s of course possible to use a LED output to drive an accent LED AND the remote control wire of a power xtender board to drive an additional peripheral requiring more power than what the accent LED pads can offer Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 21 Deep Sleep f
6. trigger additional sound visual effects A short pressure on the switch generates the blaster effect the saber blade stops a blaster ray plays one of the blaster sounds A longer pressure maintained triggers a blade lockup effect while the switch is pressed the sound lockup wav is played in loop with some shimmering applied to the high power LED The parameter lockup specifies the duration of the delay before triggering the lockup effect A short value 50 to 100 will trigger the effect almost immediately to trigger a blaster effect the user will have to release the button quickly Conversely a higher value will leave more time to produce a blaster blocking feature focd 0 500 Flash on Clash FoC duration Used when an extra LED die is wired to the board with a Power Xtender circuit and the Flash on Clash Pad focp 5 25 periodicity of the light bursts during the Flash on Clash effect A slow period will produce tight bursts Similar to the shmrp parameter focr 0 25 random value applied to the periodicity of the light burst during a Flash on Clash effect Similar to shmrr but applied to FoC focfs 0 511 defines the overall strength of the FoC LED die High power LED parameters led 0 70 defines the current of the LED up to 1 5A A value of 35 matches 750 mA 46 gives 1A Calculation of the value from the desired current n 0 15 x current A x 1024 3 3 flks 0 20 speed of the ener
7. well as in the force feedback motor Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 15 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners The calculation of the resistor depends on the forward voltage of the high power LED which varies with the current used and the LED color the forward voltage of the accent LED and the current flowing in it Example A classic 3 or 5 mm LED red green or yellow has a forward voltage of 1 6 to 1 8 volts and can take up to 20 mA For a red red orange or amber luxeon III LED the forward voltage is about 2 9V Let s take for instance a red power on LED 1 6V at 15 mA Reower on LED Viuxeon VPower on LED Ipower on LED Reower on LED 2 9 1 6 0 015 862 Which leads to 82Q or 91Q in the E12 resistor serie For a white blue green or cyan luxeon the forward voltage is about 3 7 V Let s take for example a green LED 1 8V at 15 mA Reower on LED Viuxeon z VPower on LED Ipower on LED Reower on LED 3 7 1 8 0 015 95 Q Which leads to 919 or 100Q in the E12 serie Calculation of the force feedback motor resistor There are too many various sorts of motors to determine a specific resistor The motors we sell are designed to work in the 1V to 2V range and the current they take increases af very quickly when the power supply voltage Len in
8. 3 3V remote control pad and cannot drive any power Hence it controls a Power Xtender micro board in order to drive an additional LED die Moreover the FoC isn t static but has also its own shimmer parameters in the configuration files which allows the generation of very vivid Flash on Clash effects focp focr and focs parameters The drive of the LED die involved in the FoC isn t current regulated so the appropriate resistor must be included in the Power Xtender circuit to limit the current Also user must be concerned about the current used by the FoC die the overall current used by the complete setup and the current the battery pack can provide Exceeding the capacity of the battery pack or its discharge rate could lead to battery deterioration or explosion Example of use Let s consider the drive an extra white die at 1A for the FoC Forward voltage of that die is around 3 7V Required resistor for the FoC circuit R Vpack Vf die FoC current R 7 4 3 7 1 3 7 ohm Wattage of the resistor P RxI 3 7 watt Since the FoC circuit is only active for a short time maximum 10 seconds during a lockup it s acceptable to use a 3W resistor in the example above If the user wants to drive an accent LED out of the FoC pad and not a high power LED die this can be of course achieved without a Power Xtender board just like any accent LED The pad outputs 3 3V and 18 mA maximum Plecter Lab
9. D card Once the configuration is over simply remove the card from the reader after having it ejected right click on the reader device in windows explorer contextual menu eject Put the card back in the saber and test you new setup Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners Parameters and fine tuning the saber The configuration file includes a set of parameters dedicated to the sound section of the controller and the gestural motion detection both being linked A second set of parameters handles the behavior of the high power LED Some parameters influence both categories since visual and sound effects are in tight relationship intrinsically All parameters are lowercase Motion amp Gesture detection parameters Motion recognition is processed using complex low latency DSP algorithms however most of the parameters used for those are internally computed so the user only has to setup a few thresholds amp sensitivity level as high level parameters The overall sensitivity of the board is controlled by the i parameter If you want a more verbose saber while you re satisfied of the swing clash discrimination just increase a little bit that parameter turning it to 0 57 instead of the default 0 55 value Default par
10. Petit Crouton a k a PC v1 6 Entry Range Illuminated Saber Controller User s manual Erv Plecter Labs v 1 6 August 2010 erv plecterlabs com http www plecterlabs com s hrn 9372014 ae sepr Groutonttm gt ev er 1 Y26561 26 Modification copies or distribution of that document is strictly prohibited Plecter Labs Erv Plecter 2005 2010 Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 1 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners Index PETIT CROUTON A K A PC L V1 6 INTRODUCTION Sound section Petit Crouton V1 6 Features amp Maximum Ratings TOOLS AND PARTS REQUIRED TO INSTALL OPERATE THE MODULE SD CARD CONTENTS SOUND BANKS AND SLOTS BOARD OVERVIEW USER S NOTES WIRING AND OPERATING THE MODULE General Power Switch amp Recharge Port General wiring USER S NOTES Animated Accent LEDs Calculating resistors for LEDs MAIN CONFIGURATION FILE PARAMETERS AND FINE TUNING THE SABER CLASHES amp SWINGS SELECTION MODES ADVANCED WIRING amp USAGE WIRING A TACTILE FEEDBACK MOTOR AND A PROGRESSIVE POWER ON LED WIRING A GENERAL POWER ON INDICATOR ACCENT LED WIRING A FLASH ON CLASH FOC LED DIE ACCENT LEDS SEQUENCER Stages amp Delays DEEP SLEEP FLASHING LED TROUBLESHOOTING amp FAQ Plecter Labs is in no way affil
11. ameters have been setup for you and usually only the i parameter has to be touched up However a special case can be considered The saber is not sensitive enough to the swing decrease parameter hs of one point of two Don t decrease hs too much or undesired swing sounds will be triggered Gesture flows amp priorities Our gesture analysis is so fast that sounds could be chained one after the other at light speed We therefore have to slow down the module because too many swing sounds played in a short time are not so realistic For that reason we implement gesture flow limiters for swing and clash sounds Clash sounds generally have the priority over all other sounds except in the following cases lockup is engaged no other sound will be triggered until the aux switch is released Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 12 a blaster sound is triggered Swings cannot interrupt it A clash can interrupt it A clash sound can interrupt a swing sound even if the swing flow limiter is engaged just after a swing was triggered A clash sound cannot interrupt a previously triggered clash sound if the clash flow limiter is still engaged delay for triggering another one hasn t expired A swing sound cannot interrupt a previou
12. an embedded sound module playing custom amp changeable sounds often based on chipcorders Using bulky parts those were often unreliable and hard to fit in a hilt Not to add those chipcorders were designed for digital answering machines and therefore feature a bad restitution quality voice sample rate 8 KHz Plecter Labs decided to process the internal motion sensors and the sound generation on the same board which requires some non volatile memory Second we needed a simple way to upload or download sound contents or configuration of the saber through a simple and standard way To avoid any plugging problem with a small connector and an easy to loose cable we opted for a high end flash memory card in the SD format now microSD Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners Inserted in a USB card reader like the one we sell the card is seen as a USB storage key and it takes a few seconds only to transfer files to or from the card on Mac or PC without the need of any custom piece of software Petit Crouton V1 6 Features amp Maximum Ratings Dimensions 54 6x23 5x7 5 mm with the microSD card Power supply 4 5 to 9 V 2A with the High power LED 2 li ion cells 18650 or 14500 batteries recommended Idle current consumption
13. ative of the board is no longer connected to the negative of the battery pack the board is fully powered down When a charger plug is inserted in the recharge port the charging voltage is reaching both leads of the battery pack while the negative of the board is still unconnected from the circuit preventing damages to the electronics and ensuring only the battery pack is connected to the charger for proper charge In the previous picture the green black drawn switched doesn t need to be wired per say it only illustrates the recharge socket internal switch Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners General wiring The board doesn t need so many connections for basic operation Aside of the recharge port power supply detailed above only a pair of switches the high power LED and the speaker are required to be soldered to get 90 of the features the PC board proposes Act switch Aux switch mom latch eiii as High Power LED ros 2 i Sa q OUS zett z ro ev 2 gon 1 26 User s Notes Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners
14. creases due to the non centered weight C that produces the rumbling effect n eet We can however take 1 5V as a base voltage p with a 100 mA maximum current to avoid too much current flowing in the high power LED driver and limit heating For a red red orange or amber luxeon LED the forward voltage is about 2 5V Rmotor Viuxeon V motor Imotor Rmotor 2 5 1 5 0 1 10 Q watt For a white blue green or cyan luxeon the forward voltage is about 3 7 V Rmotor Viuxeon E Vmotor Imotor Rmotor 3 7 1 5 0 1 22 Q a Vp watt For an unknown motor experimentation is the key starting for instance with a 1 2 watt 100 or 150Q resistor and an amp meter to find out the supply voltage of the motor within the limit of the max current used 100 mA max The best solution is to power the motor with a regulated power supply and to increase slowly the voltage Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 16 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners while monitoring the current and when the current and voltage are found you can go back to the above formula Be sure to use at least a 1 2 watt resistor in all cases User s Notes Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of the
15. e feedback motor like the ones used in cellphones and a power on LED can be added Those peripherals will behave the same way as the high power LED does progressive fade in and out during power on off and perturbation during a clash blaster blocking or blade lockup effects The peripherals are connected on the output of the high power LED current regulator MEURS aema instead of the high power LED negative L Please note that due to the mechanical nature of the motion sensor used made out of small steel balls moving with motion the use of a rumbling motor is not always recommended It can work however the installer must insure the motor is as mechanically decoupled as possible from the board otherwise the vibration generated by the motor will permanently activate the motion sensors leading to undesired swing fx sounds No extra wiring pad has been provided for wiring those additional peripherals just solder the positive wires in yellow on the wiring diagram below on the high power LED positive pad L or on the side of the coil os 83 2014 S AN 7 Tomy ey ky re i gt O Setit ECroutonttn gt gt 0 O Rey 1 2 Ke TOTTE g mae D ey Pore ant th V2661 26 SOW O Ou ete Calculation of the power on LED resistor The power on LED is not current regulated it just takes the voltage applied to the high power LED running at its nominal current We therefore need to limit the current in the power on LED as
16. e internal battery pack when an actual charger plug is inserted Below 2 examples of decorative kill keys February 2006 and July 2010 The Kill Key must be made out of a non conductive material PVC Nylon etc The left picture above shows a kill key made out of a sacrificed male plug metal but it s Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners provided only as a reference picture and plastic should be used as a rule of the thumb Here s the usual wiring of the recharge port Please note that not all recharge ports have the exact same pin out User must understand the principle of wiring a recharge port and must be able to identify the different pins of a socket The idea is fairly simple the positive of the battery pack goes to the recharge port central pin referred as tip and to the positive of the board It s not affected by the kill key The negative of the battery pack goes to the pin of the recharge port that is connected to the outer sleeve of the socket The last pin referred as switched negative pin and goes to the negative of the board When nothing is inserted in the port the negative of the battery pack is internally connected to the switched negative tab hence powering the board When a Kill Key is inserted in the port the neg
17. e owners SD card contents Sound Banks and Slots Sounds are stored in the WAV format 16 bits 22050 samples per second Despite the module uses an 8 bit sound output we kept the 16 bit format of the sound font therefore ensuring immediate compatibility with CF sound fonts Petit Crouton has a single sound bank with all the files including configuration files stored in the root directory of the SD card The sound content of a bank is called a Sound Font A sound bank has 22 sound slots split as below aboot sound boot wav a power on sound poweron wav a power off sound poweroff wav continuous humming hum wav 8 clash sounds clash1 wav to clash8 wav 8 swing sounds swingl wav to swing8 wav a blaster blocking sound blaster wav a blade lockup sound lockup wav When the power supply voltage is applied to the board our board boots and plays a little logo sound to notify the user just like a digital camera This little logo makes sure the Petit Crouton Saber Core started properly and it gives a special identity to the saber and to the loaded sound font This sound can be of course customized If the boot sound boot wav is not on the SD card a little beep is played instead If you don t want any sound when powering the module create a WAV sound file with 100 ms of silence The sounds must be all there on the SD card and be named properly lower case to have the module operating properly Same t
18. gy variation flickering effect of the blade A high value produces a damaged saber effect while a small value generates subtile energy changes The value 0 disables the effect static blade lkd 0 100 depth in of the energy fluctuation effect i e the the range over which the LED brightness will be affected during the effect A low value does not modify the energy very much while a high value digs big steps of light intensity To be used with the parameter f1ks Clashes amp Swings Selection Modes The Petit Crouton boards have a single random method for selecting the clash and swing sounds It s the same as mode 3 on a CF board this is an improved random mode referred as RandomX mode or Bubble Sort random The idea is to avoid Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 14 triggering twice the same sound in a sequence This new algorithm will make sure a sequence 8 swings 8 clashes does not have any duplicate but you might still get a double between 2 sequences in rare cases Advanced Wiring amp Usage Wiring a tactile feedback motor and a progressive power On LED It is possible to wire additional peripherals on our controller and make them follow the fluctuations applied to the high power LED Therefore a little forc
19. hing for the configuration files txt We advice the user to keep all its sound and configuration files in specific folders on the hard disk on the computer so that changing the saber s contents remains easy unlocked board Use some explicit naming of the folders so that you can easily remember what the sound font and configuration files are doing for instance very_sensitive_dark_lord_saber Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners Board Overview Power Supply Motion Sensors Ignition Switch Aux Switch Clash Sensor Pads biec bs B3 2014 USD oO ewes etit Groutonttne to High Power 9 Rey 1 2 G oe gt ow eee LED Pads Pi lt Dn f i Speaker Pads Accent LED pads MCU User s Notes Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 6 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners Wiring and Operating the Module The board must be powered with an appropriate battery pack We highly recommend the use of good quality li ion battery packs made of 14500 or 18650 cells and including protection PCBs The AW brand makes superior quality batteries while the Ultrafire remains a cost effective
20. iated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners j OONN AADU Bs SW W 15 15 18 19 21 22 23 Introduction The Petit Crouton is the little brother of our Crystal Focus Board It keeps the same spirit while using some more modest parts and sensors making it a perfect entry range sound fx and high power LED driver combo board If you re not familiar with ESD please visit http en wikipedia org wiki Electrostatic discharge Plecter Labs can not be held responsible for improper use or assembly of the Petit Crouton board To avoid injuries and retina damage due to the high brightness of those high power LEDs simple emitter plugs can be built using a piece of blade tubing ended with some decorative greeblies Sound section The Plecter Labs sound board is unique It has been developed in the purpose of improving the quality of DIY sabers sound FX in a significant way During too many years sound modules were obtained from sacrificed toys and remained low quality Master Replica FX sabers broke the line with better sounds and good dynamics However the low resolution motion sensors used as well as closed electronics made those boards impossible to adjust in term of sensitivity or sound contents We have monitored several attempts for building
21. ir associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners Wiring a general Power On Indicator Accent LED It s is sometimes useful or good looking to have a LED lighting up as soon as the kill key is removed Of course 1 of the 2 accent LEDs could still blink as idle mode indicator but a permanently on LED could be nice to simply indicate the battery pack is working properly This is also very nice to have indicator lighting up the internal ring of a chromed anti vandal switch The PC board provides a regulated 3 3V pad for that purpose shown in purple in the illustration below 83 281t 3 i oN f or vetit Gromton lt tn gt Ly Hey 2 Ee nid ko Shi t 4 k cnoi O Qui tas Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 18 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners Wiring a Flash on Clash FoC LED Die PC v1 6 features an additional pad to drive a Flash on Clash effect With the emerging technology of multi die high power LEDs certain dice can be used to light up the blade while a remaining die can add some more light possibly with a different color when a clash is triggered Depending on the configuration file the FoC can also be triggered when blaster blocking and lockup events are registered The FoC pad is only a
22. lashing LED It s also possible to use one of the 2 accent LEDs to indicate the saber is in deep sleep mode when the blade is off For that purpose 2 parameters have been added to the configuration file config txt idleled 0 1 selection of the LED used as idle indicator O indicates accent LED pad 1 1 indicates accent LED pad 2 idlepulsing 0 30 duration of the the idle flash of the selected LED In multiple of 1 30 of second disable the effect With 1 we get a really short flash With 28 the idle LED stays on all the time except during a brief moment and with 30 the idle LED remains always on Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 22 Troubleshooting amp FAQ Q I ve updated the sounds on the SD card and now the module does not work anymore It generates a funny melody when it boots then stalls A The PC L is a locked board therefore you can t modify the sound contents of the board Put the original contents of the SD card you got with the board saber Q I ve updated the sounds on the SD card and now the module does not work anymore It generates some beeps when it starts A You must format the SD card in FAT16 FAT32 before updating the sounds while it s not necessary to do so for the configuration files that
23. red at 10 mA R 3 3 1 6 0 01 170 ohm gt 150 ohm in the classic E12 resistor serie Be sure not to drive too much current in the LED 18 mA max If you wish a good brightness with a low current use high efficiency LED generally coming in a transparent crystal coating Please see further in this document for the sequencing of the accent LEDs Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 10 Main Configuration File The config txt configuration file is a simple text file to be edited with windows notepad It is composed of 19 parameters that must all be present in the file Otherwise the module will use default parameters The text file accepts comments on a stand alone line not mixed with a parameter line The comment symbol is the C language double slash as the very first characters of the line Certain parameters are integers 0 255 values others are floating point numbers Format must be respected even for entering value 1 for a floating point parameter 1 0 has to be entered To modify the file insert the SD card in the USB card reader and then browse the contents with windows file explorer on E for instance Double click on file config txt the notepad opens You can directly save the file on the S
24. s is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 19 Wiring Diagram for Flash on Clash FoC Power Xtender Battery Positive Aux LED positive with ae Aux LED Negative Battery Negative Main LED Negative Main LED Positive Flash on Clash FoC TXD Flash on Clash FoC User s Notes Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 20 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners Accent LEDs sequencer 2 accent LEDs can produce 4 patterns we limited the sequencer to 8 stages The working principle of the sequencer is to put the LEDs in a given pattern state during a certain time delay Once the delay is over a new pattern is output and so on for the 8 stages before looping to the first one The main LED sequence is described for each sound bank in the leds txt text file Simply open the file with window notepad to modify it directly on the SD card or on the hard disk Here is an example of an actual leds txt file oO leds txt Bloc notes Eh e Fichier Edition Format Affichage V Blinking LED configuration file a Stages amp Delays oo The example below
25. sly triggered swing sound if the swing flow limiter is still engaged delay for triggering another one hasn t expired A swing sound can never interrupt a clash sound if the clash flow limiter is still engaged and whether or not the swing rate limiter is engaged If the clash flow limiter has expired and even if the clash sound is still playing a swing sound can interrupt it swing 0 500 swing rate flow limiter Delay during which swings cannot be furthermore triggered clash 0 500 clash rate flow limiter Delay during which clashes cannot be furthermore triggered Sound parameters vol 0 4 digital volume setup 0 mutes the sound output 4 is the maximum volume shmrd 10 500 duration of the shimmering effect of the high power LED during a clash Make sure this duration is not too much longer than the associated sound to keep a nice result shmrp 5 25 periodicity of the light bursts during the clash effect A slow period will produce tight bursts shmrr 0 25 random value applied to the periodicity of the light burst during a clash effect Allows having bursts that are not regularly spaced in time which increases the realism For instance a period shmrp of 20 and a random value shmrr of 10 will produce a period between two bursts varying between 20 and 30 ie 40 and 60 ms switch 0 2 selects if the saber is activated by a normally open or a normally closed switch Certain push on push off
26. solution Unless you have a convenient way to open the hilt and access the inside of the saber Graflex base for instance we strongly recommend the use of a directly connected battery pack with a recharge port vs removable cells Moreover for dueling sabers directly wired battery packs have more reliable connections compared to spring action battery holders A 2 cell li ion will provide a nominal voltage of 7 4V to the board The board isn t compatible with a 3 cell solution without some modifications of the electronics Ni MH battery packs are simply not recommended since they have a bigger energy storage volume ratio and cost of li ion cells isn t an issue anymore General Power Switch amp Recharge Port Despite the PC board has a very low idle current use 3mA when the blade is off and board is in deep sleep mode long term storage of the hilt on a shelf or display case requires the electronics to be fully shut off To avoid the use of an additional general power switch we use the recharge port for that very purpose A pin 2 1 mm Canon socket is a popular choice Two of those pins are connected when nothing is inserted in the socket Contact is disrupted when a plug is inserted Along the years the kill key technique has been developed a fake plastic plug is decorated to look like an actual part of the hilt When inserted it cuts the power supply to the board in the recharge port Of course the port recharges th
27. switches are more practical and more reliable when released for activating the saber Other switches might simply have an inverted logic normally closed contact When switch is set to 1 the saber lights up when the electrical contact of the switch is closed and conversely when switch is set to 0 If you wish to use a MIEMEaEy switch for the blade activation set switch to 2 offp 0 1 Anti power off protection A POP To avoid accidentally powering off the saber especially when using a momentary button for activation we added a power off protection When this parameter is set to 1 the user must press the activation button and confirm with the auxiliary button Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 13 It is not necessary to press both buttons at the same time keep the activation switch pressed first then press the auxiliary switch the blade goes off qon 0 3000 quick on Allows having the blade ignited in a specific amount of time rather than matching the duration of the power on sound MiB parameter is specified in milliseconds ms and should not exceed the duration of any power on sounds a 0 3000 same thing as above but for the blade retractation MISSA lockup 0 1000 our module features an auxiliary switch to
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