Naigon's Electronic Creations Igniter 2 I2-R3 User manual

© 2013 by Scott DeBoer, Naigon’s Electronic Creations. Igniter 2™, Igniter 2™, Igniter™ and Naigon’s Electronic Creations have no affiliation
with Lucas Film, Disney, or its subsidiaries.
IGNITER 2™ I2-R3 SETUP GUIDE

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1. CONTENTS
1. Introduction...........................................................................................................................................................5
1.1. New In I2 ......................................................................................................................................................5
1.2. New In I2-R2.................................................................................................................................................6
1.2.1. Improvements..........................................................................................................................................6
1.2.2. Alternating Clash......................................................................................................................................7
1.2.3. Demo App ................................................................................................................................................7
1.2.4. NeoPixel Support .....................................................................................................................................8
2. Getting Started ......................................................................................................................................................8
2.1. Important Notes...........................................................................................................................................8
2.1.1. 3.7v Power Supply .............................................................................................................................8
2.1.2. Battery Protection ...................................................................................................................................8
2.1.3. Battery Brands .........................................................................................................................................8
2.1.4. Battery Size ..............................................................................................................................................9
2.1.5. LED Choices..............................................................................................................................................9
2.2. Igniter 2™ Layout .........................................................................................................................................9
2.3. TruDrive™ Separation ................................................................................................................................11
3. Wiring Diagrams ..................................................................................................................................................11
3.1. Basic Wiring................................................................................................................................................11
3.2. RGB Wiring .................................................................................................................................................12
3.3. RGBW/RGBA/RGBX wiring .........................................................................................................................13
3.4. Rumble Motor and Accessory Wiring ........................................................................................................14
3.5. Color Changing Crystal Wiring....................................................................................................................15
3.6. X-Saber Wiring ...........................................................................................................................................16
3.7. NeoPixel String Wiring ...............................................................................................................................17
3.8. Full Wiring With Accents............................................................................................................................18
3.9. Dual Speaker Setup Using MaxAmp™ ........................................................................................................19

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4. Configuration Editing ...........................................................................................................................................20
4.1. Installation .................................................................................................................................................20
4.2. Copy Files to your machine ........................................................................................................................20
4.3. Launching The Application .........................................................................................................................21
4.4. Changing Soundfonts .................................................................................................................................23
4.5. Editing Settings...........................................................................................................................................25
4.5.1. Master....................................................................................................................................................25
4.5.2. Blade Effects ..........................................................................................................................................27
4.5.3. Blade Color.............................................................................................................................................28
4.5.4. Clash.......................................................................................................................................................29
4.5.5. Blast .......................................................................................................................................................30
4.5.6. Audio......................................................................................................................................................31
4.5.7. Motion ...................................................................................................................................................32
4.5.8. FX ...........................................................................................................................................................32
4.5.9. DP...........................................................................................................................................................33
4.5.10. MP .....................................................................................................................................................34
4.5.11. Advanced...........................................................................................................................................36
4.5.12. Accent................................................................................................................................................36
4.6. Format Micro SD ........................................................................................................................................37
4.7. Copy Files Back To The Micro SD................................................................................................................39
5. Saber Operation...................................................................................................................................................39
5.1. Idle Mode ...................................................................................................................................................40
5.1.1. Idle Mode Interaction Table ..................................................................................................................40
5.2. Running Mode............................................................................................................................................40
5.2.1. Running Mode Interaction Table ...........................................................................................................40
5.3. Saber Cinema™ ..........................................................................................................................................41
5.3.1. Saber Cinema™ Interactivity..................................................................................................................41

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5.4. Saber Apps™...............................................................................................................................................42
5.4.1. Color Editor............................................................................................................................................42
5.4.2. Motion Editor.........................................................................................................................................43
5.4.3. Saber Says ..............................................................................................................................................44
6. Thanks..................................................................................................................................................................44

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1. INTRODUCTION
Introducing Igniter 2™, the greatest soundboard on the market. Igniter 2™ has been rebuilt from the ground up,
allowing the best possible audio and motion experience:
Amazing motion with SaberSense™, the new motion engine that uses multiple sensors to detect perfect
swings and other motions.
External clash sensor is now unnecessary, freeing up install space and allowing for accurate clash
detection.
MaxAmp™ integrated audio - full volume, crisp audio is not built on the board for the loudest saber
experience.
In addition, you can still experience the classic features from Igniter Mini™:
The ultimate color mixing –independent settable colors for main blade color, clash/lockup color, blaster
block color and Saber Dual Phase™ color
Saber Dual Phase™ - The ultimate in color. Now one font can switch between two colors on the fly with
the flick of the wrist!
Saber MultiPhase™ - Now flip between all 16 font’s color profiles on the fly, and even switch into the next
font on the fly! Select HumRetain to allow endless saber sound and light combinations not possible on any
other board.
TruMix™ - hum sounds are mixed in real-time with other sounds
Saber Cinema™ in all fonts banks
22050Hz, 16bit audio with R4’s audio enhancement for crystal clear, quality sound
All of this now comes in a super tiny package –only 1.75” x 0.85” x 0.263” for the board! This board operates on
ONE 3.7v Li-ion battery, is tiny and is suited for just about any build.
1.1. NEW IN I2
I2 was completely reworked for the new hardware, giving you these new features:
1. Improved audio with integrated MaxAmp™ - the audio hardware has been improved by integrating the
MaxAmp™ right on the main board! Now crystal clear and loud audio is possible without the need for
extra wiring and the extra satellite board. Further, for those that do still want to use the external
MaxAmp™ board to drive two speakers, the main board now has two small pads making the wiring much
easier for this scenario.
2. Realistic motion detection with SaberSense™ - now every motion is tracked and played, eliminating the
need to configure fonts separately for the types of motions that will be performed. The board accurately
detects motion changes and plays the correct sound accordingly.
3. Adjustable clash detection ulilizing SaberSense™ - the new hardware is now able to detect not only swing
motions, but clash motions as well! This allows adjustability for the sensor, allowing sensitivity from
stopping short on swings allowing the sound to be played, to requiring a hard hit on the saber.
4. Unparalleled experiences with Saber Apps™ - the most amazing way to get the full potential out of your
saber. SaberApps™ allows independent apps to be run on the board, allowing for totally separate
experiences from the main firmware. From utility, to editing, to games, this opens up a world of
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5. Configurability with on the fly editing –two editing apps are included by default for editing the motion
and color settings of the board. Accessible from the Saber Apps™ menu, these will make editing
parameters on the fly possible; there is no need to remove the uSD card or even be hooked to a
computer!
6. Experience the first ever game for sabers –Saber Says™! Copy increasingly long sequences randomly
generated by Master Simone to get a high score. Play alone or challenge your friends in a round robin
game to see who can get the high score!
7. Streamline music playing with Saber Cinema™ - now all the track files are stored off the root, with each
font sharing the same set of music files. This makes it much easier to dump in all the music files and
makes them accessible from every font. Custom the start position from each font to still create a unique
experience for each font!
8. Relish in more improvements and fixes –from bringing back the classic aux button functionality to
allowing the software to “swap” the main and aux buttons virtually, there are many improvements that
make Igniter 2™ the best saber experience ever.
To see all the new features in detail, go to the release videos for Igniter 2™ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzFbmxJgrCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRsehB-YfOk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_30_bgVbeVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e34Rxj5fS0
1.2. NEW IN I2-R2
Many new amazing features have been added in the I2-R2 release! Besides some minor fixes like fixing a bug
where long boot sounds would change volumes, there are 4 major categories of new additions:
Improvements
Alternating Clash
Demo App
NeoPixel Support
The following sub-sections go over these in detail.
1.2.1. IMPROVEMENTS
Improvements are additions to existing features. These including addressing some feedback around the features as
well as rounding them out to make the robust.
The first improvement is the ability to set zero for LOWPWR. Doing this disables the feature completely. Before
this release only 1-255 could be set, meaning that eventually the accents and motion would turn off. This allows
them to be always on if the user so desires.
The next improvement is for the twist to activate. Many users loved the ability to enable the saber without
touching the button, but others were annoyed if it accidently turned on when rolling around. To ensure everyone
could configure the saber the way they want, four start choices were added in this release: button only, button +
twist, button + slash, and button, twist, or slash. This is a per-font setting that allows the user to choose the
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The next improvement is adding amber support in the color editor. This allows folks using an RGBA/RGBW or
rumble motor off the 4th C4 channel to edit its value in the on-board Color-Editor app. Setting c4Percent to zero
disables this for anyone that is just using an RGB LED.
Another improvement is the addition of the Saber FX Idle mode. Not only was the FX issues with timing fixed this
release, but a new idle mode is added, allowing the FX sounds to be played when the font is idle. The new FXIDPER
variable allows setting the percentage that a sound will play during the menu –100 meaning it will play every 2
seconds, 1 meaning it will be many seconds (30-60 or so) on average before the next sound plays. This is
independent of the other two effects, so setting this to zero will give the legacy behavior, setting the other two to
zero will only play the fx in the menu, and any combination thereof works as well.
The final improvement is the addition of the Smash sound. A new sound bank /fontN/smsh/ is now available, and it
can hold up to 99 smshNN.wav files. By holding the aux button when performing a swing, this allows the new
sound to play instead of the swing sound, allowing for sounds where the swing is breaking an object. If no sounds
are present then a normal swing will be played instead.
To see a video overview of all these features, check out the release video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui-bWJQuzcc
1.2.2. ALTERNATING CLASH
Alternating clash is a new feature that allows the clash to alternate between the main blade color and the clash
color, instead of switching to the clash color and going high/low on that color. This is a very dramatic effect that
really allows the clash to stand out. It works in conjunction with the lockup as well. It is especially dramatic for the
new NeoPixel string blades.
To see a demo of the Alternating clash, check out the release video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-PJDD_sIE
1.2.3. DEMO APP
A new app was added this release –Demo App. This app allows the saber to go through each font and randomly do
actions without the user needing to touch anything. After playing each font, it will then play each track, and
randomly enable/disable the saber while the tracks are playing.
There are three config settings that are related to this demo app in the MASTER.INI config:
DEMOEFFMS –Length in milliseconds before the next effect is played. It is randomly varied around this value.
DEMOEXTMS –Length in milliseconds before the next font is started after the previous one stopped. It is
randomly varied around this value.
DEMOSCMS –Length in milliseconds before the saber is engaged in Saber Cinema. It is randomly varied around
this value.
Each of these configs are NOT in the Config Editor, so they will need to be adjusted manually in the MASTER.INI
file using any text editor.
To see the Demo App in action, check out this video:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3gNEnvxNcQ
1.2.4. NEOPIXEL SUPPORT
Igniter 2™ fully supports NeoPixel string blades out of the box! All that is needed is a separate SD card with the
string blade /dat and /appNN files. These strings are not only super bright, but they also support Extension and
Retraction Flow, allowing for super-realistic growing and shrinking blades, and Impact Blast™, the ability to
replicate bolts hitting the blade in defined spots.
NeoPixel blades can either be built from the 144 led/meter strips:
https://www.adafruit.com/products/2969
or by building a blade from 5mm NeoPixel individual straw-hat LEDs:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12999
To see how awesome these look, check out the release video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP17IWlQS6M
2. GETTING STARTED
2.1. IMPORTANT NOTES
PLEASE READ THIS SUBSECTION CAREFULLY AS FAILURE TO DO SO COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE IGNITER
2™ BOARD.
2.1.1. 3.7v Power Supply
Igniter 2™is designed around a 3.7v power supply input. In general, the best way to run an Igniter 2™is to hook up
a single 3.7v battery to the VBATT+ and VBATT-/GND pads.
NEVER HOOK A 7.4V BATTERY DIRECTLY TO AN IGNITER 2™UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, OR YOU
WILL DESTROY THE BOARD.
NEVER REVERSE THE POLARITY OF VBATT+ AND VBATT-/GND. IF USING A CONNECTOR FOR THE
BATTERY, MAKE SURE TO USE ONE THAT ONLY CLIPS IN ONE WAY TO PREVENT DAMAGING THE
BOARD BY HOOKING THE POWER IN REVERSE.
2.1.2. BATTERY PROTECTION
Only use li-ion batteries that have a built-in protection circuit. NEVER USE UNPROTECTED CELLS AS THIS CAN
CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE BATTERY AND/OR IGNITER 2™. IMR batteries are okay but since they are not
protected they can allow large amounts of power to the board and do not act like a fuse when there is a wiring
issue, so for beginners it is recommended to use the standard Li-ion with the protection circuit.
2.1.3. BATTERY BRANDS

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Because only one battery is being used, it is very important that a quality battery is selected to get the best
experience from Igniter 2™. From internal testing, the following brands are the only ones recommended for use
with Igniter 2™:
AW
KeepPower
Solo’s Hold custom
Panasonic
Sayno
Tenergy
These batteries have the best life and have the most consistent voltage output, allowing for the best experience
through the entire life of the battery. If you choose to use another battery your experience will not be guaranteed.
Specifically when using the Z6 LED, the only battery that Naigon’s Electronic Creations recommends is the AW
3400mAh 18650 here: http://www.lighthound.com/AW-18650-Protected-3400-mAh-Rechargeable-Lithium-
Battery-_p_4149.html, or the AW 2900 mAh 18650 sold from lighthound here: http://www.lighthound.com/AW-
18650-Protected-2900-mAh-Rechargeable-Lithium-Battery_p_3671.html. These batteries will not trip when using
all 6 die of the Z6 with Igniter 2™.
Another good choice is the KeepPower with the 3 module protection circuit, as that battery can withstand high
drain. These are usually on Ebay; just search for “KeepPower 18650 3400mAh” and pick ones that have the good
protection circuit.
Finally, Solo’s Hold just released a new Panasonic battery that has the 3 module protection circuit mentioned
above. These are great as well and are highly recommended: http://www.soloshold.com.
2.1.4. BATTERY SIZE
The best battery to use is an 18650, space allowing. If that cannot be used, then an 18500, 17650, 16650, or 17500
should be used, in that order. 14xxx batteries and 18350 batteries are not recommended due to their shorter life,
and because those batteries may not be able to output enough power to run 4 die of a High Brightness LED
(HBLED).
2.1.5. LED CHOICES
When using Igniter 2™with a 3.7v power source the LEDEngin LEDs will not work well. This is because LEDEngin’s
green and blue dies require a forward voltage of 4.0v for maximum brightness. Thus it is highly recommended to
use the Z6 sold here at Naigon’s Electronic Creations. Other choices are the X4 LED sold by Lucien Kane of the
Imperial Royal Arms forum or a Tri/Quad Rebel or Triple Cree. The Z6 and X4 LED is by far the easiest to wire as the
positive pads of the LEDs are already bridged with the Z6 being even easier since the diode for the red die is
already built in.
2.2. IGNITER 2™LAYOUT
Before getting started, it is important to familiarize yourself with the layout of Igniter 2™, TruDrive™ and all of the
pads on the board. This will help in wiring up the board for use in a saber.

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The following two diagrams show the important components of Igniter 2™, with an accompanying table describing
what each component does.
Figure 1 –Important components on the back of Igniter 2™.
Name
Label
Description
1. Micro SD card
holder
NA
Holds the micro SD card that contains the fonts and
configuration for Igniter 2™. Make sure that the card is fully
inserted before applying power to Igniter 2™.
2. TruDrive™
board
LED DRIVER PCB
Driving board that powers the high-power LEDs from Igniter
2™.
3. Battery +/-
pads
BAT+, BAT-
Hook power and ground from a 3.7v li-ion pack here.
4. Speaker pads
SPKR
Hook a 1.5-3.0w, 8ohm speaker here.
5. Accent
Common +
VLED+
Used to power all three of the accent LEDs. Optionally,
additional static LEDs can be powered from this pad. The
output is 3.3v, and it is rated at 200mA.
6. Accent LED
pads
1,2,3
Each pad can hold one 20mA accent LED. These LEDs will be
sequenced by the chosen pattern.
7. Accent LED
pads
4,5,6,7,8
Remaining LED pads that are smaller in size. 28AWG or smaller
wire is required for these pads.
8. LED connect
pads
1,2,3,4,GND
Pads that hook the TruDrive™ board to the Igniter 2™main
board. Hook the corresponding numbers together with a wire.
Pad 1 connects the ground, pad 2 connects C1-, pad 3
connects C2-, pad 4 connects C3- and pad 5 connects C4-
9. Color Pads
C1-, C2-, C3-, C4-
Hook the main LED cathodes to these pads. C4- may also be
used for an accessory such as a rumble motor.