Placing KINETIC in a soft play shape
To get the most from
KINETIC
, you will most likely place it in some sort of soft play shape. Pretorian
Technologies provides a soft play cube and a soft switch shell as accessories for
KINETIC
although
the product will work in any suitably adapted enclosure. The most important thing is to ensure that
KINETIC
’s sides remain parallel with all flat sides of the outer enclosure, otherwise it will not be able to
determine its orientation. If you are using Pretorian’s soft play shapes there are recesses in the foam to
accommodate the product and keep it parallel. If you are not using Pretorian accessories, we recommend
you either produce a similar recess in the foam or provide some other means to keep it in position.
If using Dice, Find-Me or Find-Me-Sequence Activities, it is also vitally important to know the number
of each face of the dice. On the front panel of
KINETIC
a picture of the product shows the face numbers
of the first five sides, face number 6 being the back of the product (opposite side to the display and
buttons). Note that as with a conventional dice, the sum of opposing sides is 7. When you insert
KINETIC
into the soft play shape, it is essential that you note the number of each outer face so that you know
which pocket to insert each visual prompt into.
On-Screen Keyboard
Because
KINETIC
appears to the iPad as a keyboard, the iPad automatically turns off the on-screen
keyboard. This can cause difficulties in some apps which require a typed input. To overcome this,
KINETIC
allows you to deploy the on-screen keyboard manually whenever a text box is selected. Simply
press the Power button[C]
briefly
and the keyboard will be deployed. To turn it off again,
briefly
press
the Power button again.
Re-Connecting KINETIC
If, when waking up your
KINETIC
, the rotating pattern appears only briefly and is then extinguished, this
indicates that the unit is already connected to another iPad in the vicinity. In this case you will need to
‘forget’ this connection before you can re-connect with another unit.
Go to the Bluetooth menu on the iPad with which
KINETIC
is connected (Settings
Bluetooth) and
tap the blue information icon adjacent to the unit name, then tap on ‘Forget this device’. At this point
KINETIC
is no longer connected and will appear as a ‘discoverable’ device on all iPads in the vicinity. You
can then re-connect to the iPad of your choice.
Battery Life and Battery Charging
A fully charged battery gives approximately 50 hours of use. When the battery is getting low, the
charging LED [D] begins to blink red. This is an indication that you should charge the battery soon.
Plug the charging cable into the charging socket [G] and then into a USB socket on a computer or wall
charger. The charging LED will be illuminated green. Once charging is complete (a matter of a few hours
if fully discharged) the charging LED will be extinguished. You can then unplug the cable.
Should you mislay the charging cable, replacements can be purchased by asking your local electrical
retailer for a camera connection lead. It has a USB type A plug at one end and a mini-USB plug at the other.
Note that KINETIC plugs into a computer USB port for charging purposes only and no functional connection is made
between the two devices.
Maintenance
Your
KINETIC
has no user serviceable parts. Should repair become necessary the unit should be returned
to Pretorian Technologies or an authorised distributor.
KINETIC
contains a lithium ion battery that isn’t
replaceable by the user. Although the unit uses the very latest battery technology, it may eventually
need to be replaced. Please return the unit to Pretorian Technologies for such replacement.
