Just build a voice chip and it works perfectly! My inlaws all built droids a couple of weeks ago and we are excited to build a bunch of voice chips together. Thanks so much for sharing how you did this.
You're like the Bob Ross of soldering I usally go into these kind of videos and leave discouraged but im now looking forward to start using my soldering tools and making my own personal droid personality chip, Thank you!
@Ruthsarian I don't know where to start. No electronics experience other than I can do fine soldering. I'm also good at following directions, if I have detailed instructions. Do I buy the pcbs and then purchase and install the components, then flash it with software? I'll apologize in advance for my ignorance.
Thanks for the video! Very helpful! I just got my second Droid and it's been fun customizing my original, especially bringing back into Disneyland and amazing all of the cast members there
Hey thanks for these walkthroughs, parts lists, and the PCB. I was able to follow everything and created a personality chip with a lot of voice lines from the Star Trek computers. It works really well. It did take me a bit of trial and error. I've never programmed a chip like this before but I got it working.
I did it! Struggled a bit getting the programmer to detect my chip but it's going great! Finishing up droid #2 now and I'll upload a video soon! Thanks again!
Ordered parts a couple days ago when I got back from Disney world. Been pulling sound files from Kotor to give my droid the T3-M4 sounds. Thank you for all your work on this and making it available to the public!
I ordered the thru hole parts from your link above . When assembled the board wouldn't fit into my R2 droid. with the flash chip inserted into the socket. It was too wide for the board opening and wouldn't seat properly in the slot. The board kept popping out. Of course I soldered all three sockets onto all three boards and wasn't able to successfully desolder the socket to test if the thru hole chip soldered directly to the board fit. Fortunately I also ordered surface mount flash chip and was able to clip off the socket legs off and smooth out their solder pads to the point I was able to solder on the surface mount chip. My R2 now sounds like C3PO! Darth Vader is next! Thanks for sharing all your hard work. I had a lot of fun with this project! I will definitely be ordering the programming adapter board you mentioned in the part 3 video when it is ready.
Yeah. I screwed up not testing with an R-unit before putting the PCB design out there. I think the fix to keep the socketed through-hole personality chip an option is to extend the contact fingers by a few millimeters. My very first design had longer fingers and it will fit inside an R-unit (as long as you don't also have one of the chip clips from spudinator on thingiverse). I've also designed an adapter that will let you plug a personality chip into a programmer without having to deal with removing the chip, meaning there'd be no need for a socket. So anyone with the current design could still use their through-hole memory chips. I need to finish the video on that adapter and put it out, then I'll probably do a redesign on the personality chip to extend the fingers so the socketed through-hole version will fit in R-units.
@@Ruthsarian The surface mount flash chips are really not that hard to solder. The resistor and capacitors are the real pain. I'm glad I got extras of those because a few dropped on the floor and I lost them! Given the cost this is a great project to practice your surface mount soldering technique. Thanks again for all your hard work. I am looking forward to the adapter being released. when it is, I'll be ordering it and more boards.
Thank you for this!!! I was able to convert my R2 into a Dalek! Is there a trick to getting the blaster to light up? I redid my chip's audio for the blaster to me well over .5, but the light isn't registering.
I don't have an R-unit droid to test with, so I'm not sure what trick there might be. I know that volume of the audio clip is critical to making the LEDs in the head light up. I would assume it's the same for the blaster accessory, but I can't say for certain. You could try amplifying the audio of your blaster noise to some ridiculous level, just to prove whether or not volume plays a role in turning the blaster LEDs on. i'll ask on the galaxy's edge discord server and see if anyone else has any experience with this.
I think I just about have the LED problem with the accessories figured out. Blaster and thruster sounds include extra event data that tell the LEDs to turn on and off. the other droid noises do not. i've got someone with an R-unit I'm working with to test this out. I'll share the information once it's confirmed working, but that may be a few days.
I have acquired my own R-unit to test. I know what needs to be done to recreate the effects seen in stock blasters and thrusters and how to apply them to custom sounds to get the LEDs to light up. I plan to make a video over the weekend on how to achieve that effect.
Thanks for doing these videos, very instructive. Got my boards this weekend, watched your vid and ordered parts this morning, downloaded software and will begin to play around with it. Will update when I finally get it done.
You can also reflash the original chips, no problem! But if you're using the CH341A programmer to reflash the original Galaxys Edge chips, you MUST modify it to 3.3V data lines (the CH341A programmers on Amazon have 3.3V to the chip power, but 5V data lines). Just google "CH341A 3.3v mod", it's just 5 minutes with a soldering iron but without it, the original chip will become unstable and corrupt any reads/writes to it.
awesome videos, I really like it, but, how did you come with the design of the new ship, or how did you know that CH341A should be the one that you use it?. Do you have a video about it? I really want to learn did you came with that info.
check out this playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL1LWtA1iy9hv2R1a-inW9WY91VEcFrai0.html that playlist goes through the whole process from tearing down a stock personality chip to figure out how it works to creating a custom personality chip PCB, assembling it, and programming it. The memory chip is an SPI Flash memory chip. There are a lot of devices out there that can be used to program them, just search for "spi flash programmer' or similar and you'll find lots of devices including the CH341A. I usually use a TL866II Plus, however it's an expensive device (because it can program many more things beyond memory chips). For these videos I wanted to find the cheapest solution possible so anyone who wants to make their own personality chip can do so without having to spend a lot of money. I searched the internet and found the CH341A would be the cheapest device that can program SPI Flash memory chips. I bought one. Confirmed it worked. And started making these videos. I figured out what software to use based on text written on the control board inside R-unit droids which identifies the exact chip that is used to play sounds on personality chips. I searched the internet for that chip, found the company that makes it, and their website offers the tools to make the ROM to program the personality chip free for download. The PCB design was based on looking at the design of a stock personality chip to get the dimensions (width, the size of the gold fingers, and how those fingers connect to the memory chip). Based on that information I was able to design my own PCB. As for the memory chip, there are hundreds of different SPI flash memory chips to choose from, anyone of which would work because SPI is a standard protocol used to communicate with memory chips (among other things). So I picked one that I found that was inexpensive and available for purchase and used it for the design.
@@Ruthsarian Thank you very much for the answer, I am still in a starting fase on electronics, your answer help me to undestand a lot of thinks that I was wandering
question for you ... not good with making chips , do you or someone can make a custom chip with custom sounds for a customer ? place an order ? ( Samuel L Jackson droid ) all needs to be said
I don’t have much experience with this kind of thing… but instead of ordering and building the custom chips, can you just purchase the ones they sell at Disneyland, then program over them? Or do I need an empty chip? Thanks!
yes, a stock personality chip can be reprogrammed. if you do this, i strongly suggest making a backup of the stock personality chip first, so you can always change it back to stock later on.
This is a great video. I just got my droid and wanted to mod it this is a perfect mod. I went to your mouser link for through hole version for parts and it looks like the socket is sold out and the chip has been discontinued. Is there a similar socket and chip I could use instead?
for a socket you can use this: www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/571-1-2199298-2 for the chip, there's not much available. through-hole memory chips appear to be going away. the only thing mouser has is this: www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/804-25VF080B5CPAE unfortunately that chip only has 1MB of memory space. that's the same size stock personality chips use, so you can still make a decent personality with it, but you can't do lots of long clips with it. You could take a chance on eBay. Here are a couple of listings for 5 chips for $5 w/free shipping: www.ebay.com/itm/292367973180 www.ebay.com/itm/392587584928 They may be fake chips. They may be defects. They may not be 8MB chips, but some other, smaller value. They could be exactly what they say they are. It's a risk. Beyond that, there's not much available in the world of through-hole flash memory chips. Not sure if this is a product of the global chip supply shortage or just a sign that the industry is moving on from through-hole flash memory chips.
I can make you a personality chip with the personality I created during the course of making these videos. If you want a chip that has non-copyrighted content (something you've created) I can do that too. However I cannot make a chip with copyrighted material (quotes from a TV show or movie for example). If you're still interested you can e-mail me at ruthsarian@gmail.com.
FWIW, buying less than 100 surface mount resistors almost never makes sense because their price drops very quickly as you buy more. For example looking at Digikey prices for a Panasonic 10K 0603 Resistor* 1 $0.10 10 $0.83 100 $3.20 1000 $13.99 The same general idea applies to capacitors however their price changes more drastically depending on the specs: Samsung 0.1uF 0603 ** 1 $0.10 10 $0.31 100 $1.37 1,000 $7.68 Samsung 10uF 0803 *** 1 $0.25 10 $1.73 100 $9.78 1,000 $60.38 * 1/4 watt 5% tolerance www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/panasonic-electronic-components/ERJ-PA3J103V/P10KBZCT-ND/5036237 ** 0.1µF ±5% 16V Ceramic Capacitor X7R 0603 www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/samsung-electro-mechanics/CL10B104JO8NNNC/1276-1061-1-ND/3889147 *** 10µF ±10% 16V Ceramic Capacitor X7R 0805 www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/samsung-electro-mechanics/CL21B106KOQNNNG/1276-6472-1-ND/5958100
Maybe I've missed it somewhere, but is their any guideline about length of audio clips for making a custom chip? It seems like most of the stock clips are between 2-6 seconds, but would a longer clip cause problems?
Just a warning of a problem i ran into one of my audio clips from the rick and morty fried something inside the droid and now none of the regular chips work
try powering the droid off and leave it off for a few minutes then turning it back on. that will reset the internal electronics and might fix the issue.
powering it off with the power switch is the only reset there is. make sure there's no personality chip in there when you power it back on. what is happening with your droid? if no chip is installed, will it move and make noises? and the add a standard personality chip. what happens then?
@@Ruthsarian it started recognizing when a chip is in there when i turned it off and back on but it wont make any noise with the custom chip and the regular personality chips without the chip itll move and make noise just fine though
This is an awesome job! I have a question. I was able to create my Personality Chip and to plug it in or to remove it, I turned the droid off, and it worked fine that way, but then I saw a video where original personality Chips can be plug in without turn the droid off, I tried but the Chip got damaged. I believe was one of the capacitors. Maybe you already solved or maybe it’s a good subject to a new video. Do you know what could happen or how to prevent that?
I haven't had any problems inserting and removing a custom chip while the droid was on. do you have any pictures of the personality chip you made that i could look at?
Ruthsarian ok well i put something in the 10th group anyways ,is it necessary to NOT have something in the 10th group or it doesn’t really matter? also one last question 😅,how do you remove the plastic covering on the chip lollll?
@@trancetrooper5276 shouldn't matter that something is in group 10. there's no simple way to remove the chip cover. in my experience you have to cut it off and you probably won't be able to put it back after it's removed.
make sure audio clips were sampled at 12,000Hz before you encode them. make sure there are 12 audio groups. make sure that you included the header data (personality chip id and affiliation which you add before generating the bin file). I'd just double-check everything.
What group of audio is accessed when they do the droid activation right after you build it. I want to make a chip and bring it to Disney and install before I get working.would be funny for everyone to be like WTH?!?!?
Mine tends to be overheating in my droid. I put it in and it gets hot very quickly. Anyone have ideas as to what may be the issue? I am new to soldering, so I am wondering if one of my resistors or something is not on properly.
Just an FYI for anyone else who comes across this, I talked to Brian via e-mail. The personality chip was working with the droid, but running hot. The personality chip components (memory chip, capacitors, resistors) were installed in the right place and right orientation. He resoldered a few joints that perhaps weren't making good connections, and that appears to have resolved the issue. The ground pin of the memory chip will take a little while longer to heat up before solder flows than the other pins. That's normal. Keep the iron on the pin a few seconds longer than the other pins and the solder will eventually flow. A hot memory chip (on a personality chip that does not work AT ALL; Brian's was working) is usually a sign that the chip has been installed backwards. I've done that myself a couple of times. I haven't fried a chip doing that, yet, but it's definitely possible to destroy a memory chip if it's installed backwards.
they will, but if you use a location beacon the droids will stop reacting to droid beacons for 2 hours. i think this is to prevent droids reacting to each other while in the park.
Do you mean the application to program a chip with the CH341A programmer? That can be found here: mega.nz/#!uJtTgAxC!r0ys8c-DlST8O1mSNpHjOTTCvNEsqFVi2Muf_1UCnh8 or here: forum.laboneinside.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=76 or search the internet for "CH341A" and "black edition".
sounds like you need a program that can open RAR files. if you are on a Windows computer, try installing the program 7zip. You can download it from www.7-zip.org
The feature to lock them exists, but in all the personality chips I've seen it has not been fully implemented, leaving them open to being reprogrammed. That may have already changed or may change in the future.
Is there any other place to get the chips from and if so can I have the names of the chips mousers shipping is to expensive sorry to be a pain could I please send you a envelope with a stamp my address and some money and some money and you send me the chips nothing else please I just don’t want to spend $26 for shipping
digikey.com is another place you could by them online. Search for the part number in the Mouser list as it'll be the same for DigiKey. For example, here's the same SOIC-8 memory chip: www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/winbond-electronics/W25Q16JVSNIQ/W25Q16JVSNIQ-ND/6193768 You could also try searching for the part number on eBay. These look like the right chip: www.ebay.com/itm/264257983744
Unfortunately, no. The voices are stored on a memory chip inside the holocron. To change the any voices in the holocron would require writing new sound files to that memory chip. The audio format used to encode those sound files is proprietary and we don't yet know how to encode sound files so that the holocron will understand them.
i can't make chips with copyrighted material on them. i can make them with the personality I created for this video. or if you have your own, non-copyrighted audio. if you're interested email me at ruthsarian@gmail.com and we talk.
Im gonna program it to sin “GOOD MORNING USA I GOT A FEELING ITS GONNA BE A WONDERFUL DAY THE SUN IN THE SKY HAS A SMILE ON ITS FACE AND GIVE A SALUTE TO THE AMERICAN REIGN!!!”
If you are savvy enough to be creating these and don’t own a dermal with a grinder tip. You are an oxymoron. It’s like saying you like to take things apart and repair things but you don’t own a single screwdriver
Just build a voice chip and it works perfectly! My inlaws all built droids a couple of weeks ago and we are excited to build a bunch of voice chips together. Thanks so much for sharing how you did this.
How does one build a voice chip? Sorry, i'm new to this stuff, but wanna learn because i'll be getting a droid next month!
You're like the Bob Ross of soldering I usally go into these kind of videos and leave discouraged but im now looking forward to start using my soldering tools and making my own personal droid personality chip, Thank you!
I have successfully created a rick and morty personality chip thank you for the helpful guide
I'd love to see pictures or even a video of it.
@@Ruthsarian i posted the video here www.reddit.com/r/GalaxysEdge/comments/eapk0d/custom_rick_personality_chip_bb_droid/?
@@Ruthsarian theres not alot of audio files i was testing out to see if it was possible before i went in and made more
That rick and morty vid is what brought me here lol
@Ruthsarian I don't know where to start. No electronics experience other than I can do fine soldering. I'm also good at following directions, if I have detailed instructions.
Do I buy the pcbs and then purchase and install the components, then flash it with software?
I'll apologize in advance for my ignorance.
Thanks for posting this. I don't have one of these droids yet, but when I get one, I'm definitely going to have to make a Bender Personality chip!
Thanks for the video! Very helpful! I just got my second Droid and it's been fun customizing my original, especially bringing back into Disneyland and amazing all of the cast members there
Hey thanks for these walkthroughs, parts lists, and the PCB. I was able to follow everything and created a personality chip with a lot of voice lines from the Star Trek computers. It works really well. It did take me a bit of trial and error. I've never programmed a chip like this before but I got it working.
I love the comments you put throughout the video that talk back to you haha, this is awesome man congrats on all of this. YOU did it!
so can you make one that beeps with the smugglers personally but have sound bits of Samuel L Jackson cursing combined ?
I'm thinking about trying this and am so excited to see someone already figured it out! And a great tutorial, thank you for sharing
I did it! Struggled a bit getting the programmer to detect my chip but it's going great! Finishing up droid #2 now and I'll upload a video soon! Thanks again!
Here is a link to a video of one of my droids! I made it look and sound like a Turret from Portal. ua-cam.com/video/4zarPfuj3WU/v-deo.html
Loved the video ! And loved that Star Trek reference (Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra) ;)
Ordered parts a couple days ago when I got back from Disney world. Been pulling sound files from Kotor to give my droid the T3-M4 sounds. Thank you for all your work on this and making it available to the public!
awesome! i'd love to see some pictures or even video when it's finished. good luck!
I ordered the thru hole parts from your link above . When assembled the board wouldn't fit into my R2 droid. with the flash chip inserted into the socket. It was too wide for the board opening and wouldn't seat properly in the slot. The board kept popping out. Of course I soldered all three sockets onto all three boards and wasn't able to successfully desolder the socket to test if the thru hole chip soldered directly to the board fit. Fortunately I also ordered surface mount flash chip and was able to clip off the socket legs off and smooth out their solder pads to the point I was able to solder on the surface mount chip. My R2 now sounds like C3PO! Darth Vader is next! Thanks for sharing all your hard work. I had a lot of fun with this project! I will definitely be ordering the programming adapter board you mentioned in the part 3 video when it is ready.
Yeah. I screwed up not testing with an R-unit before putting the PCB design out there. I think the fix to keep the socketed through-hole personality chip an option is to extend the contact fingers by a few millimeters. My very first design had longer fingers and it will fit inside an R-unit (as long as you don't also have one of the chip clips from spudinator on thingiverse).
I've also designed an adapter that will let you plug a personality chip into a programmer without having to deal with removing the chip, meaning there'd be no need for a socket. So anyone with the current design could still use their through-hole memory chips. I need to finish the video on that adapter and put it out, then I'll probably do a redesign on the personality chip to extend the fingers so the socketed through-hole version will fit in R-units.
@@Ruthsarian The surface mount flash chips are really not that hard to solder. The resistor and capacitors are the real pain. I'm glad I got extras of those because a few dropped on the floor and I lost them! Given the cost this is a great project to practice your surface mount soldering technique. Thanks again for all your hard work. I am looking forward to the adapter being released. when it is, I'll be ordering it and more boards.
@@Ruthsarian Where can we find the adapter to reprogram? Also, did you ever do a re-design of the personality chip to fit the R-Unit?
So amazing. Thank you so much. Can't wait to build this.
This is awesome! I'm so going to try this. Looking forward to dipping my toe into programming for the first time. Thanks for these vids!
Thank you for this!!! I was able to convert my R2 into a Dalek!
Is there a trick to getting the blaster to light up? I redid my chip's audio for the blaster to me well over .5, but the light isn't registering.
I don't have an R-unit droid to test with, so I'm not sure what trick there might be. I know that volume of the audio clip is critical to making the LEDs in the head light up. I would assume it's the same for the blaster accessory, but I can't say for certain. You could try amplifying the audio of your blaster noise to some ridiculous level, just to prove whether or not volume plays a role in turning the blaster LEDs on.
i'll ask on the galaxy's edge discord server and see if anyone else has any experience with this.
I think I just about have the LED problem with the accessories figured out. Blaster and thruster sounds include extra event data that tell the LEDs to turn on and off. the other droid noises do not. i've got someone with an R-unit I'm working with to test this out. I'll share the information once it's confirmed working, but that may be a few days.
I have acquired my own R-unit to test. I know what needs to be done to recreate the effects seen in stock blasters and thrusters and how to apply them to custom sounds to get the LEDs to light up. I plan to make a video over the weekend on how to achieve that effect.
You are amazing!! Thank you for all your hard work!!
Here's a video covering what's needed to get the accessories to light up with a custom personality chip. ua-cam.com/video/SUpH8con-GQ/v-deo.html
This is really cool, thanks for sharing!
Cant wait to Wheatley
Could you program it from the part that plugs into the droid
Thanks for doing these videos, very instructive. Got my boards this weekend, watched your vid and ordered parts this morning, downloaded software and will begin to play around with it. Will update when I finally get it done.
You can also reflash the original chips, no problem! But if you're using the CH341A programmer to reflash the original Galaxys Edge chips, you MUST modify it to 3.3V data lines (the CH341A programmers on Amazon have 3.3V to the chip power, but 5V data lines). Just google "CH341A 3.3v mod", it's just 5 minutes with a soldering iron but without it, the original chip will become unstable and corrupt any reads/writes to it.
I think it would be so cool to turn a droid into a google home ask it questions and it responds ask it to play music, is it possible to do that?
Where can I buy this board today?
awesome videos, I really like it, but, how did you come with the design of the new ship, or how did you know that CH341A should be the one that you use it?. Do you have a video about it? I really want to learn did you came with that info.
check out this playlist:
ua-cam.com/play/PL1LWtA1iy9hv2R1a-inW9WY91VEcFrai0.html
that playlist goes through the whole process from tearing down a stock personality chip to figure out how it works to creating a custom personality chip PCB, assembling it, and programming it.
The memory chip is an SPI Flash memory chip. There are a lot of devices out there that can be used to program them, just search for "spi flash programmer' or similar and you'll find lots of devices including the CH341A. I usually use a TL866II Plus, however it's an expensive device (because it can program many more things beyond memory chips). For these videos I wanted to find the cheapest solution possible so anyone who wants to make their own personality chip can do so without having to spend a lot of money. I searched the internet and found the CH341A would be the cheapest device that can program SPI Flash memory chips. I bought one. Confirmed it worked. And started making these videos.
I figured out what software to use based on text written on the control board inside R-unit droids which identifies the exact chip that is used to play sounds on personality chips. I searched the internet for that chip, found the company that makes it, and their website offers the tools to make the ROM to program the personality chip free for download.
The PCB design was based on looking at the design of a stock personality chip to get the dimensions (width, the size of the gold fingers, and how those fingers connect to the memory chip). Based on that information I was able to design my own PCB.
As for the memory chip, there are hundreds of different SPI flash memory chips to choose from, anyone of which would work because SPI is a standard protocol used to communicate with memory chips (among other things). So I picked one that I found that was inexpensive and available for purchase and used it for the design.
@@Ruthsarian Thank you very much for the answer, I am still in a starting fase on electronics, your answer help me to undestand a lot of thinks that I was wandering
I couldn’t figure it out I tried two hours trying to convert audio files and it wouldn’t work
question for you ... not good with making chips , do you or someone can make a custom chip with custom sounds for a customer ? place an order ? ( Samuel L Jackson droid ) all needs to be said
I don’t have much experience with this kind of thing… but instead of ordering and building the custom chips, can you just purchase the ones they sell at Disneyland, then program over them? Or do I need an empty chip? Thanks!
yes, a stock personality chip can be reprogrammed. if you do this, i strongly suggest making a backup of the stock personality chip first, so you can always change it back to stock later on.
This is a great video. I just got my droid and wanted to mod it this is a perfect mod. I went to your mouser link for through hole version for parts and it looks like the socket is sold out and the chip has been discontinued. Is there a similar socket and chip I could use instead?
for a socket you can use this: www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/571-1-2199298-2
for the chip, there's not much available. through-hole memory chips appear to be going away. the only thing mouser has is this: www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/804-25VF080B5CPAE unfortunately that chip only has 1MB of memory space. that's the same size stock personality chips use, so you can still make a decent personality with it, but you can't do lots of long clips with it.
You could take a chance on eBay. Here are a couple of listings for 5 chips for $5 w/free shipping:
www.ebay.com/itm/292367973180
www.ebay.com/itm/392587584928
They may be fake chips. They may be defects. They may not be 8MB chips, but some other, smaller value. They could be exactly what they say they are. It's a risk. Beyond that, there's not much available in the world of through-hole flash memory chips. Not sure if this is a product of the global chip supply shortage or just a sign that the industry is moving on from through-hole flash memory chips.
Since I have zero experience with electronics or soldering, would you possibly take a commission on a custom personality chip?
I can make you a personality chip with the personality I created during the course of making these videos. If you want a chip that has non-copyrighted content (something you've created) I can do that too. However I cannot make a chip with copyrighted material (quotes from a TV show or movie for example).
If you're still interested you can e-mail me at ruthsarian@gmail.com.
How would I include audio from a tv show or movie? I’m very inexperienced with programming
I've done all the hardware but I can't get the program to load. I tried looking up the app you recommend below but too many choices.
FWIW, buying less than 100 surface mount resistors almost never makes sense because their price drops very quickly as you buy more.
For example looking at Digikey prices for a Panasonic 10K 0603 Resistor*
1 $0.10
10 $0.83
100 $3.20
1000 $13.99
The same general idea applies to capacitors however their price changes more drastically depending on the specs:
Samsung 0.1uF 0603 **
1 $0.10
10 $0.31
100 $1.37
1,000 $7.68
Samsung 10uF 0803 ***
1 $0.25
10 $1.73
100 $9.78
1,000 $60.38
* 1/4 watt 5% tolerance
www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/panasonic-electronic-components/ERJ-PA3J103V/P10KBZCT-ND/5036237
** 0.1µF ±5% 16V Ceramic Capacitor X7R 0603
www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/samsung-electro-mechanics/CL10B104JO8NNNC/1276-1061-1-ND/3889147
*** 10µF ±10% 16V Ceramic Capacitor X7R 0805
www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/samsung-electro-mechanics/CL21B106KOQNNNG/1276-6472-1-ND/5958100
Maybe I've missed it somewhere, but is their any guideline about length of audio clips for making a custom chip? It seems like most of the stock clips are between 2-6 seconds, but would a longer clip cause problems?
longer clips aren't a problem. your only limitation is the amount of space on the memory chip.
Just a warning of a problem i ran into one of my audio clips from the rick and morty fried something inside the droid and now none of the regular chips work
try powering the droid off and leave it off for a few minutes then turning it back on. that will reset the internal electronics and might fix the issue.
@@Ruthsarian yeah i powered it off over night but it still did read it is there a hard reset or is that not advised
powering it off with the power switch is the only reset there is.
make sure there's no personality chip in there when you power it back on.
what is happening with your droid? if no chip is installed, will it move and make noises?
and the add a standard personality chip. what happens then?
@@Ruthsarian it started recognizing when a chip is in there when i turned it off and back on but it wont make any noise with the custom chip and the regular personality chips without the chip itll move and make noise just fine though
This is an awesome job!
I have a question. I was able to create my Personality Chip and to plug it in or to remove it, I turned the droid off, and it worked fine that way, but then I saw a video where original personality Chips can be plug in without turn the droid off, I tried but the Chip got damaged. I believe was one of the capacitors. Maybe you already solved or maybe it’s a good subject to a new video. Do you know what could happen or how to prevent that?
I haven't had any problems inserting and removing a custom chip while the droid was on.
do you have any pictures of the personality chip you made that i could look at?
@@Ruthsarian yes
Would there be a way to buy pre made blank chips ? I’m confident in my programming but have problems fine soldering (shakey hands)
i was too lazy to put 12 sounds but is it ok i put the same sounds in the 12 groups just filled them up?
yup, that should be okay. group 10 you can leave empty.
Ruthsarian am i able to re program a personality chip i have or i can’t re program the ones bought from disney?
@@trancetrooper5276 you can reprogram stock personality chips. but make a copy of it before you reprogram it.
Ruthsarian ok well i put something in the 10th group anyways ,is it necessary to NOT have something in the 10th group or it doesn’t really matter? also one last question 😅,how do you remove the plastic covering on the chip lollll?
@@trancetrooper5276 shouldn't matter that something is in group 10.
there's no simple way to remove the chip cover. in my experience you have to cut it off and you probably won't be able to put it back after it's removed.
What programming tool do you use
In this video I'm using a CH341A which can be bought on Amazon for $10 here: www.amazon.com/dp/B07R5LPTYM/
So my chip doesn’t work. When the chip is in the droid the droid make no noise. Any insight. Hardware or software?
make sure audio clips were sampled at 12,000Hz before you encode them.
make sure there are 12 audio groups.
make sure that you included the header data (personality chip id and affiliation which you add before generating the bin file).
I'd just double-check everything.
if you want, sent me the bin, ruthsarian@gmail.com, and I'll confirm with a known good chip whether or not it works.
What group of audio is accessed when they do the droid activation right after you build it. I want to make a chip and bring it to Disney and install before I get working.would be funny for everyone to be like WTH?!?!?
Group 8, track 1 is what is played when your droid is paired for the first time in the droid depot.
Mine tends to be overheating in my droid. I put it in and it gets hot very quickly. Anyone have ideas as to what may be the issue? I am new to soldering, so I am wondering if one of my resistors or something is not on properly.
Just an FYI for anyone else who comes across this, I talked to Brian via e-mail. The personality chip was working with the droid, but running hot. The personality chip components (memory chip, capacitors, resistors) were installed in the right place and right orientation. He resoldered a few joints that perhaps weren't making good connections, and that appears to have resolved the issue.
The ground pin of the memory chip will take a little while longer to heat up before solder flows than the other pins. That's normal. Keep the iron on the pin a few seconds longer than the other pins and the solder will eventually flow.
A hot memory chip (on a personality chip that does not work AT ALL; Brian's was working) is usually a sign that the chip has been installed backwards. I've done that myself a couple of times. I haven't fried a chip doing that, yet, but it's definitely possible to destroy a memory chip if it's installed backwards.
Will multiple Droids still react to each other or talk to each other?
they will, but if you use a location beacon the droids will stop reacting to droid beacons for 2 hours. i think this is to prevent droids reacting to each other while in the park.
@@Ruthsarian is it possible to set reactions based on the other chips? Say make a custom reaction to Smuggler Droids
What’s the program you use can I have a link please I can’t find it
Do you mean the application to program a chip with the CH341A programmer?
That can be found here:
mega.nz/#!uJtTgAxC!r0ys8c-DlST8O1mSNpHjOTTCvNEsqFVi2Muf_1UCnh8
or here:
forum.laboneinside.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=76
or search the internet for "CH341A" and "black edition".
@@Ruthsarian its opening in noteswhat do I do???????????????
sounds like you need a program that can open RAR files. if you are on a Windows computer, try installing the program 7zip. You can download it from www.7-zip.org
@@Ruthsarian ok i got it but cant test it can you please send me your noise file mine dose not work thanks
download it from here
drive.google.com/file/d/1BUZe3nxGrU47zWsIzxWGqt2qdRQa4QI2/
if i try this im probably just gonna do it with soldering paste XD
Can’t you just reprogram a real droid personality chip from Galaxy’s Edge or are they locked?
The feature to lock them exists, but in all the personality chips I've seen it has not been fully implemented, leaving them open to being reprogrammed. That may have already changed or may change in the future.
Is there any other place to get the chips from and if so can I have the names of the chips mousers shipping is to expensive sorry to be a pain could I please send you a envelope with a stamp my address and some money and some money and you send me the chips nothing else please I just don’t want to spend $26 for shipping
digikey.com is another place you could by them online. Search for the part number in the Mouser list as it'll be the same for DigiKey. For example, here's the same SOIC-8 memory chip: www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/winbond-electronics/W25Q16JVSNIQ/W25Q16JVSNIQ-ND/6193768
You could also try searching for the part number on eBay. These look like the right chip: www.ebay.com/itm/264257983744
Is it possible to do the same thing to the kyber crystals to add different voices to the holocrons.
Unfortunately, no. The voices are stored on a memory chip inside the holocron. To change the any voices in the holocron would require writing new sound files to that memory chip. The audio format used to encode those sound files is proprietary and we don't yet know how to encode sound files so that the holocron will understand them.
Ruthsarian
Thank you for the information hopefully someone will figure it out.
Awesome!
I’d be willing to buy one if you sell them
i can't make chips with copyrighted material on them. i can make them with the personality I created for this video. or if you have your own, non-copyrighted audio.
if you're interested email me at ruthsarian@gmail.com and we talk.
This was so fun. Beats Disney+ 😂
Im gonna program it to sin “GOOD MORNING USA I GOT A FEELING ITS GONNA BE A WONDERFUL DAY THE SUN IN THE SKY HAS A SMILE ON ITS FACE AND GIVE A SALUTE TO THE AMERICAN REIGN!!!”
If you are savvy enough to be creating these and don’t own a dermal with a grinder tip. You are an oxymoron. It’s like saying you like to take things apart and repair things but you don’t own a single screwdriver
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Also, more flux. Always more flux.