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Sound Board Features
The SaberSD sound board includes several novel features – including our ClashEffect
output to the driver board (to synchronize clash sound and blade flicker), configurable
sound templates using standard WAV sound files, a microSD card that can be changed
using a PC reader, a ForceFeedback multi-speed vib motor, and programmable settings to
customize your saber behavior and sound schemes.
The microSD card is a normal FAT file system (either FAT16 or FAT32 can be used).
To create a sound template, you can use our free
Sound Template Creator
software tool
or copy WAV files to your card under file manager. There is also a .txt file that holds all
the settings for the sound board. This is gone over in detail later in this document.
SaberSD Sound Board Peripherals
The sound board has up to 6 connections for power, ground, on/off input, clash output,
deflection (aux) in, and 5V out (used to connect the switches to). If you are using our
LED driver, no other information is needed as the 2 boards are plug and play. If you are
using a different blade circuit or the sound board is used standalone, you can connect up
your power and on/off switch mechanism to use the sound board in conjunction with your
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The board can accept DC power up to 14V. Normal AA batts, li-ion cells, li-poly packs,
or NiMh battery packs can be used with the sound module.
The on/off switch can be either momentary or latching. The operation of this switch is
setup in the configuration file on the SD card (described below).
Here is a picture of the sound module with annotations: