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Spectacle User's Guide 

Introduction

Spectacle is a product ecosystem centered around a simple idea: creative 
people shouldn’t have to learn new skills to use electronics in their projects. 
You’ve spent years developing the skills you use, and SparkFun wants to 
recognize that and help you expand your creations to include electronics 
without requiring you to spend years learning about electronics and 
programming.

Spectacle launched with six modules: the Director Board, an Audio Output 
Board, a Motor Control Board, a Lighting Control Board, an Inertia Sensing 
Board, and a Button Input Board. Every Spectacle project consists of at 
least two boards: one Director Board and at least one of the output-type 
modules.

Director Board

Spectacle Director Board

DEV-1391 2 

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Страница 1: ...ou expand your creations to include electronics without requiring you to spend years learning about electronics and programming Spectacle launched with six modules the Director Board an Audio Output B...

Страница 2: ...lay sounds from a Micro SD card to your Spectacle system It provides a line level output ready to be amplified Motor Control Board The Motor Control Board is made to drive conventional hobby servo mot...

Страница 3: ...uite a few interesting effects that otherwise wouldn t be possible Inertia Sensing Board The Inertia Sensing Board allows you to trigger events on motion stillness or orientation Button Input Board Sp...

Страница 4: ...e Tour There are two buttons on the Director Board one labeled RST and one labeled PROG These buttons allow you to enter programming mode so new behaviors can be loaded into your Spectacle system To e...

Страница 5: ...es by way of the Director Board More than one board may listen to a single channel and more than one board may write to a single channel by use of virtual boards to combine signals An Example In our s...

Страница 6: ...or now just click on Audio to add our Audio Output Board We re now back at the beginning screen with the addition of another line below the project info line for a painstaking sound board You can rena...

Страница 7: ...ttom of the page find the ADD AN ACTION button Click it and a list of actions will descend from the top of the page For the Audio Output Board only two options exist Cancel and Play Sound Click on Pla...

Страница 8: ...sequence events however you see fit and play file number This is where you tell the board which file to play Remember when copying the audio files to the Micro SD card they should be named as 00 ogg...

Страница 9: ...d the instruction to play back a sound Now we need to tell the system when to play the sound Click the GO BACK button at the bottom of the screen Don t worry the action you added has been saved automa...

Страница 10: ...are board Now a virtual board entry appears in our project list The Virtual Board entry is special in that it can only exist once in the boards list and it will always sink to the bottom of the list e...

Страница 11: ...e to use Choose Random Input from the list There are only two blanks here one for channel number and one for timing Basically this action flips a coin every few seconds how often is determined by the...

Страница 12: ...into the Program jack on the Director Board Supply power to the Director Board via the micro USB jack on the end of the board then hold down the RST button Hold down the PROG button and release the R...

Страница 13: ...these signals depends upon what sort of action the signal is connected to Example Inertia board and Sound board Imagine we have system with an inertia board and a sound board configured as above By th...

Страница 14: ...On Latch Off sound like they ll produce a continuous output suitable for triggering our continuous flame effect Using one of them depending on whether you want to have to hold the button or just turn...

Страница 15: ...to another sound a notification tone for instance playing on the programming device during the configuration installation process The solution here is simple try installing again If your volume is al...

Страница 16: ...animated diorama with sound using Spectacle electronics Spectacle Motion Kit Hookup Guide All the information you need to use the Spectacle Motion Kit in one place Spectacle Button Board Hookup Guide...

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