PRIZM Petit Crouto PRIZM v4 User Manual Download Page 32

The PRIZM Sound Board User's Manual 

 

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the  shimmer  parameters  affect  the  blade  behavior  during  the  Flash  on  Clash 
effect.  That  special  “all  mixed”  mode  will  swap  back  and  forth  between  the 
main blade and FoC blade colors ensuring that the FoC color doesn’t wipe out 
the main blade color 

color=300,0,750 
fcolor = 500,500,500 
focmix=111 

 

C)

 

Using  a  RGW  tri-rebel  or  tri-cree.  FoC  color  is  an  alteration  of  the  blade  main 
color (ie : the blade color changes) but the third die is also added on top. Let’s 
take  this  time  the  example  of  a  blue  blade  that  would  become  cyanish  during 
FoC  plus  the  white  die  on  top,  in  order  to  both  affect  the  color  and  overall 
increase  the  blade  brightness.  The  first  2  color  channels  remain  mixed  during 
the  Flash  on  Clash  effect,  for  the  whole  duration  of  the  shimmer,  while  the 
white die is applied on top, during its own specific duration (

focd

). 

color=1000,200,0 
fcolor=1000,500,700 
focmix=011

 

 
 
Whether you plan just a color  change or see the FoC as another die lighting up, the 
user  must  consider  the  amount  of  current  available  from  the  battery  pack.  A  color 
change  might  actually  consume  a  lot  more  current  than  the  "normal  blade"  (like 
moving from a red blade to a white FoC). To match the battery pack capabilities, the 
overall current of the different die could need to be lowered to obtain the right color 
but with less brightness. 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Summary of Contents for Petit Crouto PRIZM v4

Page 1: ...se information 3 channel direct drive Color mixing with the FlexiBlend engine Supports luxeon III V rebel old or new seoul LEDs Ledengin tri rebels tri Cree etc Trident cross guard support We spent a...

Page 2: ...9 BOARD OVERVIEW 10 USER S NOTES 10 GETTING STARTED WITH PETIT CROUTON 11 WIRING AND OPERATING THE MODULE 11 General Power Switch Recharge Port 11 General wiring 13 USER S NOTES 13 Animated Accent LE...

Page 3: ...ING LED 35 FORCE PUSH EFFECT 36 MUTE ON THE GO 37 USER S NOTES 37 TRIDENT CROSS GUARD SUPPORT 38 DEFINING THE QUILLONS CHANNELS 38 TRIDENT MODES 38 Mode 0 Simple Delay 38 Mode 1 Shifted Delay 38 TRIDE...

Page 4: ...appropriate tools and ESD protection 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 assemb...

Page 5: ...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 dynami...

Page 6: ...Accent LEDs pad current source 18 mA max per pad Handles momentary or latching for blade activation Up to 6 selectable sound banks via Font Xchange Up to 10 color profiles triggered by a switch actio...

Page 7: ...ers 7 Placement Installation Ideally the module is placed in the hilt so that the motion sensor is at 1 or more from the spinning center of the hilt the SD card remains easily accessible Usually the p...

Page 8: ...sor we use is capable of detecting rotation movement and shocks The main difficulty is to make the proper difference between the two classes of movements The sensor is digitized by a microcontroller t...

Page 9: ...up wav 1 force effect sounds force wav 1 color profile transition sound color wav If this sound isn t present in the font the force wav sound will be play in place When the power supply voltage is app...

Page 10: ...or 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 Board Overview User s Notes High Power...

Page 11: ...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...

Page 12: ...f a socket The idea is fairly simple the positive of the battery pack goes to the recharge port central pin referred as tip and the to the positive of the board It s not affected by the kill key The n...

Page 13: ...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...

Page 14: ...the board pre tin one pad only then grab the resistor with a pair of sharp tweezers slide it against the pre tinned pad heat up the joint wait for it to cool down then solder the other side of the re...

Page 15: ...d at 10 mA R 3 3 1 6 0 01 170 ohm 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 efficie...

Page 16: ...resistor needs to be changed see calculations below Resistor calculation The Ohm s Law gives us R U I R is the resistor we re looking for U is the voltage across the resistor unknown for now and I is...

Page 17: ...t going too much into boring details there s a simple rule of the thumb saying that wiring 2 identical resistors in parallel divides the resistor value by 2 and multiplies the wattage by 2 In our prev...

Page 18: ...comment exported to the Real Time Configuration Editor R I C E Use the comment to name the configuration to reflect its theme like Bank1 Novastar sound font Certain parameters are integers others are...

Page 19: ...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 i...

Page 20: ...gs 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 pr...

Page 21: ...burst during a Flash on Clash effect Similar to shmrr but applied to FoC foc 0 100 0 100 Flash on Clash effect depth Defines how deep the FoC brightness is dug for on top or non mixed FoC di c e Also...

Page 22: ...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 produ...

Page 23: ...nton then the delayed Trident channels will ramp on their own until the end of the power on sound The 2 modes show little differences in behavior if the delay duration is close to the power on sound d...

Page 24: ...or other aspects of the saber which once decided don t have to be copied and pasted in all banks The bank configuration will be always parsed in first place then settings present in the override file...

Page 25: ...700 940 0 color4 840 0 630 fcolor4 0 0 940 color5 940 430 0 fcolor5 0 940 0 color6 740 930 0 fcolor6 0 740 600 If the user prefers to not use the color profiles only one has to be left to define the...

Page 26: ...n LED that has a forward voltage of 3 45V 1A It is really close to the battery voltage The resistor calculation remains the same R Vcell Vled LedCurrent R 3 7 3 45 1 0 15 ohm On the one hand such a sm...

Page 27: ...you find the desired sound coloration To check the obtained volume before putting the whole electronics in the hilt circle the loud speaker between the thumb and the first finger and curve the palm of...

Page 28: ...ion 2 Unzip the sound font archive in a directory of your hard disc 3 Take all the WAV sounds If the sound font zip archive comes configuration files that are supposed to match the theme of the sound...

Page 29: ...rovides a regulated 3 3V pad for that purpose shown in purple in the illustration below Add a crystal chamber to your saber A crystal chamber is a nice detail to add to your saber The crystal can be l...

Page 30: ...river PWM signal doesn t have a pad per say but can be easily grab right next to each direct drive channel Example below provided with color channels 1 2 3 wired as R G B The common cathode of the acc...

Page 31: ...e accent LED sequence states The left most digit 0 or 1 is color channel 3 or formerly FoC2 while the rightmost digit is color channel 1 onboard driver A zero indicates the concerned die isn t mixed t...

Page 32: ...third die is also added on top Let s take this time the example of a blue blade that would become cyanish during FoC plus the white die on top in order to both affect the color and overall increase th...

Page 33: ...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 w...

Page 34: ...ern 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 o...

Page 35: ...LED pads can offer Deep Sleep flashing LED It s also possible to use one of the 4 accent LEDs to indicate the saber is in deep sleep mode power saving For that purpose 2 parameters have been added to...

Page 36: ...other hand fakes to do the gesture The fighter will push his opponent with one hand while moving a bit the saber hilt and pressing the aux button at the same time The aim is to trigger a swing gestur...

Page 37: ...ow saber moves and interact with the students with the saber sound in the background If was already possible to mute the saber in the previous versions by using a dedicated bank in which mute was enab...

Page 38: ...ture single color vs color mixing the definition of the delayed color channels is slightly different but the idea remains the same some channels will be turned on with a delay The delayed channels are...

Page 39: ...Ignition end 100 0 tridenton delay Intensity MODE 1 Shifted Delay t Ignition end 100 0 tridenton delay Power on sound Power on sound Regular Channel Delayed Channel The power on sound here is a compos...

Page 40: ...nboard driver of the board while the Flash on Clash die is controlled by channel 3 for instance and its onboard Power extender The quillons blades LEDs are both controlled by a secondary channel of th...

Page 41: ...o sent to the TridentRGB board along with the board accent LED 4 which is delayed tridentm 1000 The output of the addon board then drive the quillon LEDs It can be seen as a on off pass thru system wi...

Page 42: ...ent chipsets on the market FTDI the Prolific PL2303 and the Silicon Labs Silabs CP2102 The R I C E data connection to the sound board just requires 3 wires Rx Tx and the ground Make sure you use a RIC...

Page 43: ...r how R I C E works click on the Folder Tools icon on the lower right side of the program it will open the help section To establish the communication with the saber turn the blade on then select the...

Page 44: ...l the time to the saber once you ve altered a parameter and you want to test it in an actual condition For example the motion sensitivity parameters have to be tested by waving the hilt It s not a pro...

Page 45: ...hat is accessed when you boot the saber add debug 1 on the first line of the file The board will the be a lot more verbose during the boot process and will send out some useful debugging information T...

Page 46: ...best practice is to first set as many profiles as you want to use manually in the configuration file with a default drive on channel 1 like the following color0 800 0 0 fcolor0 800 400 0 From there yo...

Page 47: ...Labs is in no way affiliated associated licensed or endorsed by Disney or Lucasfilm Ltd Industrial Light and Magic or any of their associates All brands and trademarks listed are the exclusive propert...

Page 48: ...n files Three beeps generally mean that many important files haven t been found You can get more details about what s happening by hooking up your RICE cable connect and press ctrl M apple key M on ma...

Page 49: ...Owners 49 Plecter Labs would like to thank his affiliates for their useful input on the Petit Crouton Board specs new features ideas constructive criticism as well as proof reading of that user s manu...

Page 50: ...ash Vocal Menu Mute on the go Anti Power On Off Protection APOP R I C E Real time Internal Configuration Editor Crystal Pulse Crystal Focus and Crystal Focus Saber Core Petit Crouton Nano Biscotte Pow...

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