Please Welcome Petit Crouton 2.0

[erv]

Hi there Saberland !

Today's new is the announcement of Petit Crouton 2.0 ! 

We though it was the right moment to pimp that little board. I started this redesign back in January then we went in beta testing and now it can go in the wild for you masses of saber junkies 

FEATURES

- Same motion detection as CFV5, with increased dynamic (better fine tuning of motion parameters).
- High-end 3D motion sensor
- Force effect sound
- 4 blaster sounds
- "RandomX" selection methods for swings, clash, blasters (ie, in most cases, never twice the same sound triggered in one sequence)
- Drop-in Compatibility with CF sound font (no remix / volume adjustment necessary)
- Font limited to 8 swings, 8 clashes and 4 blasters. Also Force and lockup.
- Single boot sound
- CFV5 volume

- 12 bit sound. The good news is that is sounds almost like the CF.

- 2A current
- 2 accent leds, 32 stages sequence with stop and loop instructions (using either 0 or 65535 for the delay)
- Flash  on Clash™ with a FoC™ pad on the top of the board
- Larger & Labeled R.I.C.E. pads (still under the board)
- And still smooth ignition / retraction effect and flicker. No Pulse effect though.

Other features

- Hum resume (resume) : defines if you come back to where the hum has been interrupted or not. Interesting for certain hums. Not sample accurate but resumes the hum in a ballpark of 10ms from where it's been interrupted by a fx sound
- Anti power off delay (offd) : adds a delay to the power off when cycling the activation switch and is adjustable. A useful alternative to A-POP, a couple of customers requested it, here it is.
- Led parameter now takes mA.  To get 2A you would enter 2000, for 1.5A 1500 etc.
- Motion sensing thresholds now go up to 1023 (ls, hs, lc) : multiply your former CF configurations by 4.
- General sensitivity (i) is now an integer between 0 and 99. Same kind of value than on CFv5. Previously entered as float number (0.65) but is now 65.
- Wiring is very similar to current CF, down to the accent LEDs location and FoC pad.
- shorter than PC 1.6
- Updated version of the R.I.C.E. app

Here is a list of the files used by the PC 2.0

boot.wav
clash1-8.wav
swing1-8.wav
hum.wav
blaster1-4.wav
poweron.wav
poweroff.wav
force.wav
lockup.wav

You can drop a CF font directly onto the SD card (in the root directory not a subfolder) as the PC only uses what it needs and will just ignore the unused files of a CF font.  No need to delete them.


Here is a picture I took to compare the size of the board to the previous PC and CF for reference.




I also adapted the PCB to have the board header friendly. So the power supply and speaker pads are aligned to match a 2.54mm header




Here're the current configuration file :

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//Petit Crouton 2.0
vol=4
led=1000
switch=0
offp=0
offd=0
resume=0
lc=400
hs=220
ls=50
i=53
shmrd=210
shmrp=6
shmrr=13
focd=200
focp=10
focr=10
focs=1023
swing=200
clash=150
lockup=150
qon=0
qoff=0
flks=3
flkd=20
idlepulsing=1
idleled=0

The LightMeat and DarkMeat sound packages are being finalized as I type this. The Petit Crouton 2.0 will be for sale at The Custom Saber Shop in a short while, around 10AM pacific time today.


User's Manual

either here
http://www.plecterlabs.com/catalog/article_info.php?articles_id=100
or there
http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/images/PC-2.0-Manual.pdf


R.I.C.E. App v2
still beta, but it's been tested quite a lot already. I'm still missing a little help file, I should have that done very soon. I know, I have to make a MAC version too, I just need to grab one at work, no time to do that so far 

http://www.plecterlabs.com/Media/PetitCrouton/PetitCroutonR.I.C.E_PCv2.zip


Some video demos will follow very soon in this thread for your leisure & pleasure !

[MH]

Woohoo

Here is a bench test video of the board.

The video should be live shortly so if you do not see it check back shortly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yxHpvFjT6M&feature=youtu.be

[scottjua]

Sweet action! Badass for sure. Ok how do I get one?

[MH]

Sweet action! Badass for sure. Ok how do I get one?

TCSS.  It will replace the PC 1.6 in the store and will be normally stocked just like the 1.6 was.  If it sells out don't fret because it will be restocked regularly.

[slothfurnace]

Rock and roll, Erv, glad to see this announcement!

I'll probably snag a couple or few of these.

Excellent work, as always!

[scottjua]

Cool!

[C-3P0]

AWWEEESOOOOMEE!! Love it! Great stuff as always Erv! You sir are a genius

That really is a decent size smaller than the PC1.6!

[erv]

Of course, sound font wise, with the direct compatibility with CF sound fonts, SaberFont.com is the place to shop for sound fonts for the PC2 !

[scottjua]

Sweet action! Badass for sure. Ok how do I get one?

TCSS.  It will replace the PC 1.6 in the store and will be normally stocked just like the 1.6 was.  If it sells out don't fret because it will be restocked regularly.

Thanks! Just sent you an email

[JANGO FETT]

Tron Baton with PC 2.0 demo and RICE

http://www.fx-sabers.com/forum/index.php?topic=35534.msg479077#msg479077

[Mersenne]

Sweet work erv
What a massive influence and life changer you are in this hobby.
Thank you, this simply looks marvelous

[Silver Serpent]

Wicked awesome, and it's SMALLER?  Kudos to you erv, and the beta testers!

[Subvirtua]

Well I sure didn't see that coming.

[DarthLwin]

No wonder the PC 1.6 has been out of stock for so long.

And great job to all those involved in this build. It's almost on par with the CF already!

I understand that the differences would still be

No pulse effect
Fewer accent LEDs
Only one Sound bank
RICE support

[Dark Navel]

And one font instead of six.  No iSaber either...

Edit:  Didn't see the note about one font .  (Ahh, I see you had an edit in your post)