I saw the Switcher module appear in the store today and immediately pulled the trigger.
Can someone help a noob by giving some more details about the six inputs?
Thanks!
I saw the Switcher module appear in the store today and immediately pulled the trigger.
Can someone help a noob by giving some more details about the six inputs?
Thanks!
I’m pretty sure they’re binary. So, you’d have something like this:
A0 | A1 | result |
---|---|---|
low | low | 0 |
high | low | 1 |
low | high | 2 |
high | high | 3 |
But since the switcher goes from 1-4 instead of 0-3, just add 1 to the result in my table. The resulting number is the same as pressing the buttons above. And you’d have a similar table for B0 and B1.
And I’d guess bar-AEN and bar-BEN are for “disable A” and “disable B”, probably turning off the relevant output when receiving a high signal. (High is anything about 0.5V and low is anything below 0.5V, I think.)
Lars/LZX: Please correct me if I’m wrong!
Thanks for that, it makes sense!
Check out the LZX Industries account on Twitch, you’ll be pleasantly pleased to find two videos, the 2nd is a highlights vid around 27 minutes long. The other is over an hour
Edited/Updated to add this URL:
Ah, so according to that 1hr21min video somewhere around the 25 minute mark, I was kind of wrong. A0/A1 and B0/B1 are indeed binary, but whatever they work out to is added to whatever button is pushed. So if the A channel has button 1 pushed, A0=low and A1=high (so 2 in binary) adds 2 to the selected button (button 1 in this example), so it outputs channel 3.
That’s interesting! So if I use some outputs from the Turing Machine or Triple Sloths into the inputs of the Switcher, I expect that I will get an ever changing result of video madness! This is going to be fun. Tracking shows mine will be here on Tuesday, I’m already thinking about patching!
My first thought upon seeing this was that I sorta wished there was also a trigger input for switching to the next channel.
if you have a castle counter you can.
Most any clock divider that has a threshold within 0-1V would do!
Since the video rate switching is somewhat decoupled from the buttons — more a channel offset than straight VC (which is actually pretty awesome) — I guess I was saying it would’ve been cool to also then be able to VC the buttons with a trigger. Such that one could automate the shuffling (like at ~14:35 of the video above).
I know we can’t hug all the cats, but…
these toys are for the 52hp switcher