Possible Variations
- Don't blink, wink. If you want only one eye to go off when
you press the 4th button so that you "wink" instead of "blink", you
can achieve that easily with a slight wiring modification. Instead
of connecting both red leads from the eye LEDs to the 'e' pins on
the custom board, only connect the one that you want to wink.
Connect the one that should stay lit directly to power (I.E. connect
it when you connect all the red leads.)
- I don't need to blink or wink, give me more sounds!
The use of the 4th remote button for blinking/winking was a design
choice. If you don't want it you can have that 4th button play a
sound or sounds instead by changing the wiring a bit: Rather than
attaching both red leads from the LEDS to the 'e' holes in the
custom board, connect them directly to power as in the variation
above. Then run an additional connection between one of
holes on the board and contact on the Adafruit Sound FX
board. This will establish the 4th remote button as another
trigger to the sound board. You'll have to add more content to
the FX board, but s a matter of connecting the sound board to
a computer with a USB cable and adding appropriately-named sound
files. Details about how to do that can be found on the Adafruit
product web
site: FX
Mini Sound Board
Note that the electronics assembly described in the main build uses
Triggers 0, 1 and 2 on the FX board. If you tie an 'e' contact to
the '3' pin, it will be Trigger 3. Also, just in case you think
that because there are two 'e' pins on the custom board, maybe the
2nd one can be a 5th trigger, it won't. Both 'e' pins activate
when the 4th button is pressed. They are separated only so that
if they both have LEDs on them, each LED gets its full supply of power...
- I don't like the Jawa sounds you picked, give me different
ones! This one you can do without wiring changes because
the sounds that are played are solely determined by the contents
by the files stored on the FX board. All you have to do is load
different sound files onto the board by attaching the board to a
computer with a micro USB cable. You actually have a lot of
options in that any particular trigger (remote control button) can
trigger a single sound, play a random sound from a set, sequence
through a set of sounds, or set an audio file playing until the
same button is pressed again. Again, details are on the Adafruit
web site:
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-audio-fx-sound-board/triggering-audio
- Three or even four sound triggers are not enough for me,
can I have a 2nd glove? The FX board has 10 trigger inputs
and we're only using 3 of them by default, 4 if you build the no
blink/wink version. Without going into much detail, yes, you
could add a 2nd control glove paired with a 2nd receiver/custom
board pair. The receiver and custom board are built as above, but
the 0,1,2,e pins on that 2nd custom board would be tied to, say,
trigger pins 4,5,6 and 7 on the FX board and Ta-Da, you have a
full 2nd set of triggers for the same sound system. Load up
sounds or sets of sounds for those triggers and you can have a
jawa conversation with anyone.
- I'm a Tusken Raider and I'm jealous, can I have a sound
system? Sure. You can build the electronics part above and
install it into anything. Leave off the eyes, tie an 'e' pin to
FX so you have 4 triggers, load the FX board with the
right sounds and figure out the physical mounting in your bucket
and you're ready to go. Actually, DZ-61970 will be doing this in
his Tusken as soon as the GJH build is done. You can also adapt
the control glove to different setups, including the Gaffi stick
arrangement mentioned in "Control System Build" above, putting
buttons on a blaster, etc. Go wild.
- I'm an off-world Jawa, what about me? We were focused
on Tatooine Jawas for this build, so that's what we've specified.
But if you want to substitute red eyes, maybe different eye covers
to meet the CRL, maybe use different sounds (Jawaese with an
Arvala-7 accent?), have at it. We don't have a parts list or a
set of sound files for you, but we're confident you can handle it
and hope we've provided enough info to start you on your way.
Jawa Labs & Jawa Pleatherworks Customer Service
Repurposing Your Droids Since 2017.
