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Spectacle Button Board Hookup Guide
Spectacle Button Board
The Spectacle Button Board allows you to add input from buttons or
switches to your Spectacle projects. It has a total of 9 signal inputs, eight of
which can come from external buttons and one button directly on the board.
Spectacle Button Board
DEV-1404 4
tl;dr (essentials)
1. Buttons or switches can be connected to the board by pushing wires
into the "poke home" type connectors on the board.
2. Up to nine signals are available.
3. Button signals can be either momentary or continuous.
Meet the Spectacle Button Board
Designed to bring simple signals from the world into your Spectacle
projects, the Spectacle Button Board provides input for any of your
Spectacle projects.
It has two 1/8" (3.5mm) jacks for connecting to other boards in a Spectacle
system. Note that the Spectacle data jacks are directional: the one marked
"In" should be plugged into the "upstream" board (i.e., closer to the Director
Board than this one) and the one marked "Out" connects to the next
downstream board.
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- Page 1 Page 1 of 17 Spectacle Button Board Hookup Guide Spectacle Button Board The Spectacle Button Board allows you to add input from buttons or switches to your Spectacle projects. It has a total of 9 signal inputs, eight of which can come from external buttons and one button directly on the board.
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Page 2: Suggested Reading
Page 2 of 17 There are 8 “poke home” connectors on the Button Board. Each one can be connected to one (or more) buttons. To add a connection, simply push the stripped end of a wire into the hole on the connector. The connector will automatically grab on and hold the wire in place. - Page 3 Page 3 of 17 For the Button board, there are five options: three which produce a momentary pulse type output and two that produce a continuous switch type output. Action on press Trigger an action when a button is first pressed, regardless of how long it is subsequently held down.
- Page 4 Page 4 of 17 Trigger an action when a button is released, regardless of how long it has been held down prior to being released. • “When button number … is released” - This is the number of the button we wish to assign to this action. The button numbers are printed on the board, and run from 0 through 8.
- Page 5 Page 5 of 17 Trigger an event as soon as a button is pressed, then continue to trigger that event as long as the button is held down. • “While button number … is pressed” - This is the number of the button we wish to assign to this action.
- Page 6 Page 6 of 17 Example Project Let’s use the Spectacle Button Board to make a project! Obviously, we need to have some kind of output board as well, so we’ll use a Light Board. The project will use the button board to turn the Light Board’s Scanning Effect on and off.
- Page 7 Page 7 of 17 Next, take the other TRRS cable and plug it into the “Program” jack on the Director Board. Take the other end of this cable and plug it into the audio jack of the phone, tablet, or computer that you’ll be using to program the system. Then take the other end of the first TRRS cable and plug it into the “In”...
- Page 8 Page 8 of 17 Plug the other end of that cable into the “In” jack on your Light Board. Now plug your lightstrip adapter cable into the Light Board… …and plug the lightstrip into the other end of that adapter. Finally, plug the Micro B end of the power adapter into the Director Board, and the other end into the wall.
- Page 9 Page 9 of 17 To continue, we must tell the project which boards we wish to use. Start by clicking the “Add a Board” button at the bottom of the page. This will bring up a list of the available boards. We’re going to add our Button Board first of all, so click anywhere in the “Button”...
- Page 10 Page 10 of 17 You should now have a list that looks like this. Order is important, so make sure your boards are in the same order as shown above. Names are not important, however, and your boards will have different names than mine do, as Spectacle assigns names randomly.
- Page 11 Page 11 of 17 The window that pops up will look like the image below. Click the button highlighted in the image below to add an action to the Button Board. This list will come up. It represents all the different actions which can be performed by a Button Board.
- Page 12 Page 12 of 17 You’ll then see this screen, which presents the various options for the Latch On/Latch Off action. Every action will have different settings. Here are the settings we need to use for this project. We want button 8 (the button on the Button Board) to activate channel 0 when pressed.
- Page 13 Page 13 of 17 Now click on the “Go Back” button to return to the main page. Your action changes will be saved automatically. We’re back at the main page, now, and you can see that the action we added appears under the Button Board in the boards list. Now click on the clapboard icon for the Light Board to add an action for the button to trigger.
- Page 14 Page 14 of 17 When you click the “Add an Action” button, you’ll be presented with this list of actions that the Light Board can perform. We’re going to choose the “Scanning Effect” action. This screen will pop up, albeit without any of the entries in the fields. Go ahead and set up the fields as I’ve shown them below, then click the “Go Back”...
- Page 15 Page 15 of 17 Congratulations! You’ve finished the configuration step of the process. Now it’s time to move on to loading the project onto your Director Board. Uploading Now that you’ve created your Spectacle program it’s time to upload it to the Director Board.
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Page 16: Further Reading
Page 16 of 17 Make sure the volume on your device is turned all the way up, and that no other audio source (music, video, etc) is playing in the background. Then press and hold the “RST” button on the Director Board, press and hold the “PROG”... - Page 17 Spectacle Motion Kit Spectacle Motion Board Hookup Guide Hookup Guide All the information you need to use All the information you need to use the Spectacle Motion Kit in one the Spectacle Motion Kit in one place. place. https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/spectacle-button-board-hookup-guide?_ga=2.2077204... 6/12/2017...
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