Click or touch the “Install” button at the bottom. The button will gray out
during the installation process. When it has returned to its normal color, the
installation is done. If the installation was successful, you should see the
LED on the Director Board blink 10 times, then pause, then 10 times, then
pause, etc. Press the RST button on the Director. Again, you’ll see 10
blinks, then a pause on the Director LED. That means the program is
loaded and everything is working.
Spectacle Concepts
Momentary versus continuous events
Some events in Spectacle will generate a “one-and-done” pulse, and some
will generate a continuous signal. What happens with 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 the settings you can imagine what will happen: a sound will play when
the inertia board is moved. But what happens if the inertia board
keeps
moving? It will continue to send its signal on channel 0, and the sound
board will continue to receive it, and two seconds after the sound starts
playing (
regardless of the actual length of the sound
), the sound will play
again. This will continue until the inertia board is allowed to stop moving–a
continuous
output signal.
To play the sound only once, upon the first motion of the inertia board, what
should we change? We would change the check box on the “sense motion”
action from “while” to “if”.
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