Thanks for all of your help!
Type: Posts; User: Gregatron
Thanks for all of your help!
Still looking for a good photo/video hosting site, but I did upload photos and videos of all the soundfonts to Facebook.
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Yeah, I’ll also vouch for the 2.0 kit. If you’re not a stickler for accuracy, it’s a great and economical kit right out of the box. You can make a nice, non-functional prop replica out of it within...
Yeah, it comes down to your personal preferences. Is this a dueling saber or a shelf queen? Would you prefer red button activation or clamp activation? That sort of thing.
For my own build, I...
Having just completed a Graflex 2.0 (which is also my first FX saber build), I know exactly where you’re at. I assume that you simply forgot to list the battery charger and recharge port, but I’m...
Finally received my replacement red button caps from TGS. The glue is setting, now. When cured, the saber will be complete, aside from some additional last-minute checking and tweaking of the...
Looks great!
Still tinkering with various configurations. It’s been a long and tricky process. I’ve probably spent at least 20 hours on it, in total. Tweaking, testing, retweaking, retesting. I’m pretty much done...
I may be an idiot!
I cleared off the SD card, then reloaded the original, stock CF9 fonts, and it still plays the boot.wav sound after the font.wav sound when a font is selected from the...
Still working on refining the soundfonts. Mixing and matching sounds to customize each of the 12 soundbanks. Been refining the motion/clash sensitivity, and I’m getting very close to what I would...
I’m still not sure why the boot sounds are playing after I select a font!
That said, I won’t have time to fine-tune the fonts until Sunday, when my vacation starts. Still waiting on my replacement...
I was pretty tired when I began playing with the fonts, and it turns out I’d forgotten to format the SD card, the other night. Works now. Thanks for the advice, Silver Serpent!
I’ve spent all day...
Well, I received all of my new soundfonts, and started installing them. There’s some weird stuff going on with some of them. It seems like several .wav files are overlapping/playing in succession for...
ARGH!!! I’d almost completed final assembly, but there was one small hiccup. Everything was going great. I soldered, tested and installed the upper red button’s aux switch, which works. However, when...
Had a devil of a time getting the clamp switches properly adjusted. At one point, the bottom Graflex endcap somehow got stuck on the blade holder. I had to clamp it into my hobby vice to untwist it....
Swapped out the speaker for a spare. It’s fine, now. Started test-fitting in the Graflex body. The only problem is that the clamp switches are a tight fit. When the clamp card is inserted, the aux...
Hmmm. There seems to be a bit of a rattle when the speaker is active. I’m not sure if there’s a problem with the speaker itself, or if it might be a result of the vibrations created by the speaker.
IT WORKS! IT WORKS!
I wired up the FoC, and popped in the SD card. Everything works! The sound effects, the aux button (in the clamp, at least—I can’t wire up the red button until final...
Okay, I’ve been hard at work on wiring everything up. The smaller gauge wire allowed everything to fit—tightly—within the chassis.
I have everything wired up EXCEPT for the FoC die. I soldered a...
Disconnected the various parts, and becgan cutting wires and splicing in the smaller 28 gauge wiring. Also been sanding down the chassis collar—inside and out—which slides into the blade holder, so...
I ordered some 28 gauge from TCSS. I think I’ll swap out some of the bulkier wires in the clamp switches, at least. It’ll take some careful splicing if I do the same for the battery and/or LED wires,...
...so, I soldered up the LED resistors (minus the white FoC, which is still in the mail), and the wires for the double aux switches. However, test fitting everything in the blade holder has been...
I still need to play around with the available space. I think avoiding SMD resistors on the board/star would be the best way to go. I haven’t done too much test-fitting, but it does look like the...
Yeah, the diagram makes sense. Thanks! Meanwhile, I wired up the battery to the recharge port. I’m waiting on an SMD resistor for the FoC, but I may wire the board to the speaker and battery in the...
So, one positive/negative going from the board, then branching out to each switch. A sort of “double-y” wire configuration?