Petit Crouton (aka PC) v2.0 - The Order of Ashla Knights
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1. nN I b Dei 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 8 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 2005 2012 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 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 isnt 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 sto2. 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 Swings and clashes are separated using 3 thresholds A swing motion must exceed Is low swing and must remain under hs high swing A clash must simply exceed Ic low clash It s important to maintain a dead zone between hs and Ic to maximize the quality of the motion detection Default parameters have been setup for you and usually only the be touched up However some special cases can be considered _ The saber is not sensitive enough to the swing placement in the hilt too close to the spinning center spinning style etc decrease parameter Is of one point of two Don t decrease Is too much or undesired swing sounds will be triggered _ When the saber cuts the air too fast the swing is not triggered it s in the dead zone Increase a little bit parameter hs or reduce the speed of your Swings _ The saber often produces a clash sound when the user executes a swing parameter hs is probably too high and too close to parameter Ic If the clash sensitivity is correct decrease parameter hs _ The saber is not sensitive enough to clashes decrease parameter Ic _ The user wants the clash to happen only when blade is smacked very hard increase Ic keep it under 1023 Will l parameter has to Rule
3. f a delay of 65535 loops the sequence random 0 500 00 doo 200 501 01 do1 200 502 10 do2 200 5s03 11 do3 200 504 00 do4 700 505 01 do5 2700 506 10 do6 200 s0O 11 do7 200 508 00 dos 200 509 01 do9 200 510 10 di0 200 511 11 dii 2700 1 2 00 di2 2700 513 01 d13 700 514 10 di4 700 515 11 di5 200 516 00 d16 65535 Stages amp Delays 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 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 2005 2012 Saber starts and the animation stop at the end of the 32 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 A delay of 65535 will loop the sequence 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 Plec
4. 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 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 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 2005 2012 16 the user must press the activation button and confirm with the auxiliary button 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 Miis ae and should not exceed the duration of any power on sounds qoff 0 3000 same thing as above but for the blade retractation AiSGiiA lockup 0 1000 our module features an auxiliary switch to trigger additional sound visual effects A short pressure
5. 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 2005 2012 20 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 Petit Couton ts V2 8 Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 21 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 2005 2012 Wiring a Flash on Clash FoC LED Die PC v2 0 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 loc
6. normal sound volume as setup in the configuration file 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 2005 2012 26 Troubleshooting amp FAQ 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 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 blockin
7. Delays DEEP SLEEP FLASHING LED Mute On The Go TROUBLESHOOTING amp FAQ 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 2005 2012 CS AANIN MN fH W 18 18 21 22 24 24 26 26 27 Introduction The Petit Crouton is the little brother of our Crystal Focus Board It is very similar to the CF but has a single sound banks and two accent LEDs making it a perfect midrange sound fx and high power LED driver combo board If you re not familiar with ESD please visit http ikipedi iki i 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
8. Petit Crouton a k a PC v2 0 Entry Range Illuminated Saber Controller User s manual Erv Plecter Labs v 2 0 January 2012 erv plecterlabs com http www plecterlabs com Petit nes ctm V2 8 Qh ny ie A T ay fa i i y RUN salle G03 a BO 3 EO r re ee F A UMAM lt 9 Gnd gt a Plecter Modification copies or distribution of this document is strictly prohibited Plecter Labs Erv Plecter 2005 2012 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 2005 2012 Index PETIT CROUTON A K A PC V2 0 INTRODUCTION Sound section Petit Crouton V2 0 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
9. cells 18650 or 14500 batteries recommended Idle current consumption 3 mA deep sleep mode 2A high power LED drive Speaker 4 to 8 ohm Audio output Power 2W Accent LEDs 2 32 stages sequence with stop and loop instructions using either 0 or 65535 for the delay 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 WAV file support 12 bit sound SD card support up to 2GB FAT16 or FAT32 beta Sandisk and Kingston brands preferred Hum resume defines if you come back to where the hum has been interrupted or not Interesting for certain hums Not sample accurate but resumes the hum in a ballpark of 11ms from where it s been interrupted by a fx sound Anti power off delay offd variant of our Anti Power Off technology APOP use an adjustable delay when cycling the the activation switch Led current parameter now takes mA To get 2A you would enter 2000 for 1 5A 1500 etc Motion sensing thresholds now go up to 1023 ls hs Ic multiply your former CF configurations by 4 General sensitivity i is now an integer between 0 and 99 Same kind of value than on CFv5 Previously entered as float number 0 65 but is now 65 Wiring is very similar to current CF down to the accent LEDs loca
10. d Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 2005 2012 18 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 well as in the force feedback motor 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 Rpower on LED Viuxeon Veower on LED Tpower on LED Rpawason LED 2 9 1 6 0 015 86 Q Which leads to 82 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 Rpower on LED Viuxeon Veower on LED Tpower on LED Rpoweron LED 3 7 1 8 0 015 95 Q Which leads to 91 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
11. demarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 2005 2012 Main Configuration File The config txt configuration file is a simple text file to be edited with windows notepad It is composed of 26 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 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 SD 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 2005 2012 14 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
12. e 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 switches are more practical and
13. e whole SD card Ctri a Ctril c to a Options de Formatage Formatage rapide E Gctiver la compression P Gr er une disquette de d marrage MS DOS temporary folder of the hard drive 6 Format the SD card in FAT FAT16 or FAT32 7 Select the whole content of the temporary directory on the hard drive and copy it in one run to the SD card Ctrl a Ctrl c Ctrl v on the SD drive m i Fermer If you wish to try different sound fonts quickly copying back and forth all the files will soon be boring and time consuming Start by configuring your board to use bankl Then make a temporary file structure of the SD card that has only the bank1 directory and nothing else Use that directory to test the different sound fonts This way you will transfer only a limited number of files Once the fonts have been selected you can store them in the different sound banks and start adjusting the parameters Board Overview Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 7 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 2005 2012 LIN FoC Ignition Switch AUX Switch Accent LED pad pad pad pad pads Power supply pads Oeti Crouton tm UiO Speaker pads VVA YD m a ae ne r Je n sO _ we Gnd PARR LED pads a WL lt T A ag jawe V to
14. ent 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 negative 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 2005 2012 10 General wiring The board doesn
15. ep 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 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 2005 2012 Creating Your Own Sounds It s a great personal satisfaction to build up your own soundfont However it s not so easy Please read our online tutorial about that particular topic Installing a Sound Font on the SD card 1 First thing backup the SD card on the hard disk Easy to do however most people don t bother doing so and end losing their jx initial configuration eta 2 Unzip the sound font archive in a directory of Peto your hard disc 3 Take all the WAV sounds If the sound font zip e ficer archive comes configuration files that are rar 7 supposed to match the theme of the sound font Tale d unite dallocation you can take it as well but make sure the Taile dallocation par d faut Ei settings wont harm anything especially the Mom de volume high power LED current PICSABER Copy the files in desired sound bank and overwrite the files Copy th
16. equences 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 force 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 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 A ie A 7 slepa eS N mia es Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light an
17. g 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 2005 2012 2 Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 28 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 2005 2012
18. kup events are registered The FoC pad is only a 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 isnt 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 isnt 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
19. ndy 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 PC2 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 red at 10 mA R 3 3 1 6 0 01 170 ohm gt 150 ohm in the classic E12 resistor serie 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 2005 2012 12 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 13 their associates All brands and tra
20. of the thumb for a proper configuration process modify only a single parameter at once and work separately on clash and swing parameters Fine tuning the module might take some time but a good configuration will lead you to a very satisfying interaction with the saber 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 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 2005 2012 15 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 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 previously triggered swing sound if th
21. 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 offd 0 3000 adds a delay to the power off when changing the state of the activation switch Max value 3000 6 seconds resume 0 1 hum resume defines if you come back to where the hum has been interrupted or not Interesting for certain hums Not sample accurate but resumes the hum in a ballpa
22. onts You can now drop the contents of a CF sound bank directly onto the root directory of the SD card for the PC 2 0 It will only use the files necessary and ignore the rest 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 26 sound slots split as below a boot sound boot wav a power on sound poweron wav a power off sound poweroff wav continuous humming hum wav 8 clash sounds clashl wav tO clash8 wav 8 swing sounds swingl wav tO swing8 wav 4 blaster blocking sound blasterl wav to blaster4 a blade lockup sound lockup wav force sound force 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 thing for the configuration files txt We advise the user to ke
23. or sound contents We have monitored several attempts for building 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 2005 2012 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 V2 0 Features amp Maximum Ratings Dimensions 48x23 5x7 5 mm with the microSD card Power supply 5 5 to 11 V 2 5A with the High power LED 2 li ion
24. pad outputs 3 3V and 18 mA maximum 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 2005 2012 22 Wiring Diagram for Flash on Clash FoC Negative of Foe die l CEET ILEEFE 0 as gt de Q AT g a nT eka Tene t Maie a Dap oe i p SA eehhanas 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 23 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 2005 2012 Accent LEDs sequencer 2 accent LEDs can produce 4 patterns we limited the sequencer to 32 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 32 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 F leds txt Notepad File Edit Format View Help V Blinking LED configuration file ji a delay of 0 stops the sequence
25. rage 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 the 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 2005 2012 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 differ
26. rk of 11ms from where it s been interrupted by a fx sound High power LED parameters led 0 2000 defines the current of the LED up to 2A A value of 750 matches 750 mA 1000 gives 1A Calculation of the value is in actual milliamps flks 0 20 speed of the energy 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 flkd 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 f1lks 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 2005 2012 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 RandomxX mode or Bubble Sort random The idea is to avoid 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 s
27. sell are designed to work in the 1V to 2V range and the current they take increases very quickly when the power supply voltage increases due to the non centered weight that produces the rumbling effect We can however take 1 5V as a base voltage 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 Rieter 2 5 E 1 5 0 1 10 Q VY watt Fora white blue green or cyan luxeon the forward voltage is about 3 7 V Rmotor Viuxeon Vmotor Imotor Rmotor 3 7 E 1 5 0 1 22 Q a VY watt 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 2005 2012 19 For an unknown motor experimentation is the key starting for instance with a 12 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 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 2 watt resistor in all cases User s Notes Plecter Labs is in
28. 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 From recharge port mom latch mom 4 Aun uo High power LED lt gt I o gt men gt e mr User s Notes Plecter Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of 11 their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive property of their respective owners 2005 2012 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 32 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 LED resistor footprint pads Petit Tene cte V2 8 Qi ii Pe i sy vd fg ae me K neal b of aon ca o an Se oF A Accent LEDs Accent LED Pads ground return 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 ha
29. ter 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 2005 2012 25 Deep Sleep flashing 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 O 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 Mute On The Go Proposed requested by Novastar for the specific situation of teaching saber classes and interacting with students We all enjoy our saber to be loud when playing with it however it s hard to show saber moves and interact with the students with the saber sound in the background We therefore tweaked the firmware so that pressing the aux switch prior pressing the activator switch will mute the saber until powering the blade off the power off sound will be played Further regular ignition without pressing the aux switch prior ignition will have the
30. tion and FoC pad Shorter than PC 1 6 Mute on the go 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 2005 2012 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 a computer 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 respective owners 2005 2012 SD card contents Sound Banks and Slots Sounds are stored in the WAV format 16 bits 22050 samples per second Despite the module uses a 12 bit sound output we kept the 16 bit format of the sound font therefore ensuring immediate compatibility with CF sound f
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