Please Welcome the NANO BISCOTTE v3it's not like a "huge" update, customers from everywhere have shown their support and enjoyment for this little board, including the easiness of wiring and limited setup/configuration. Though you can always shove more into a board, many customers have expressed their liking for keeping something simple as a start to not be overwhelmed by tons of settings and configuration, especially for a first saber, so we're keeping what they like.
For the newcomers, the Nano Biscotte is a real entry range sound board, a sort of replacement of the PC 1.x, but with the legacy of the Plecter boards, and of course changeable sound fonts (think saberfont.com ;) )
The main addon is the
onboard Flash on Clash Power Extender (PEx). It was not there initially to keep the board single color for beginners. Though Flash on Clash is popular for ages now, we saw this as optional, or "second stage" in the saber design, so that customer could first enjoy the board with a single colored LED then eventually move to multi-die LEDs.
I've also reworked a bit the power saving scheme which is even better now. Also, we're changing the motion sensor to a new and better one, featuring even less noise and better stability which has displayed better results against speaker rattling and excessive current (cell voltage ripple).
The demand became important for this little upgrade, so the PEx is now onboard, another time+room saver.
SPECS-
[NEW] Flash On Clashâ„¢ (FoCâ„¢) compliant using an *onboard* Power Extender
[Legacy features, copy paste from v1/v2 thread]
- 2 fonts - Long press on the activation switch when blade is off make the saber switch to the other font. Comes with Lightmeat and Darkmeat
- Improved file fetching, up to 16 GB µSD card
- Board is freakin' small : 28.5x18.5 mm
- Header friendly
- same 2W amp as my other boards
- Designed only for 1 li-ion cell
- 10 bit audio
- same sensitivity, same motion recognition configurability and quality as PC/CS/Prizm with a blade impact anti echo etc.
- clash and swing motion flow limiters
- momentary switch only
- off delay APOP
- progressive ignition / retraction (of course)
- quick on / quick off
- flicker / shimmer
- NO Aux switch
- NO R.I.C.E. (actually nothing to setup actually, in most cases)
- 1.5 to 2A led support, no horrible voltage chopper / nor cool current regulator (sorry), just an external resistor like on a stunt (you can add a buckpuck too)
- adjustable drive to remove the resistor in some cases
- enhanced deep sleep with 0.09 mA consumption (13 months of shelf time with a 14500, 39 months with a 18650), no kill key really needed.
- changeable sound fonts, drop in support of CF/PC fonts, extra sound files are ignored.
- 8 swings / 8 clash for a perfect legacy compatibility with older fonts, power on/off, hum, no lockup, no blaster (no aux switch !)
The board wires the LED like a PEx, positive of the battery (eventually after the recharge port, if any) goes to the + of the board AND to the + of the luxeon via a power resistor
neg of the pack to the neg of the board.
L- to the luxeon neg
F pad to the FoC dice neg
2 wires to the switch (switch negative share with board negative)
2 wires to the speaker
User's ManualTo be uploaded soon, I'm working on it. Not much to say anyway, board is very similar to the v2, just a FoC wiring variants.
FAQsPRICING: increased to 54€ to compensate for the huge part cost increase ($ vs €) and a tiny fraction for the onboard PEx.
AVAILABILITY : anytime soon, early January. Regarding TCSS, we're synchronizing at best, there will be some phase out / phase in between the different versions to ensure to keep boards in stock and avoid shortage.
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