Usage

Hold your Flow3r with the pink part facing towards you, and the USB port facing upwards

Powering your Flow3r

The Flow3r needs electricity to run - either from a battery or over its USB port.

Once it has power available, you can turn it on by moving the right-hand side power switch (next to the ‘flow3r’ label on the front of the badge) towards the right.

You should then see the badge spring to life and display ‘Starting…’ on the screen.

Navigating the Menu

The left shoulder button is used to navigate the menus of the badge. Moving it left and right selects an option in the menu. Pressing it down selects a menu option.

The right shoulder button can be pressed down to quickly return ‘back’, either in a menu or an app.

Dealing with Audio

The badge has two built-in speakers. Their loudness can always be adjusted by using the right shoulder button, left for lowering the volume and right for making it louder.

You can plug in a pair of headphones to the 3.5mm jack on the bottom-left petal. The built-in speakers will then turn off and audio will go out through the headphones. You can adjust their volume in the same way.

Showing your nick and pronouns

You can navigate to Badge → Nick to display your nick and pronouns. If your nick is flow3r, and you have no pronouns, congratulations! You’re ready to go. Otherwise, you’ll have to connect your badge to a computer and edit a file to change your nick and pronouns.

From the main menu, navigate to System → Disk Mode (Flash). Connect your badge to a computer, and it will appear as a mass storage device (a.k.a. pendrive). Open the file `nick.json in a text editor and change your nick, pronouns, font sizes for nick and pronouns, and whatever else you wish. Please note that pronouns is a list, and should be formatted as such. for example: "pronouns": ["aa/bb", "cc/dd"],

For the nick.json file to appear, you must have started the Nick app at least once.

Use "color": "0xffffff", to color your name and pronouns.

Use "mode": "1", to use a different animation mode rotating your nick based on badge orientation.

When you’re done editing, unmount/eject the badge from your computer (umount on Linux is enough) and press the left shoulder button to exit Disk Mode. Then, go to Badge → Nick to see your changes!

If the nick.json file is unparseable or otherwise gets corrupted, it will be overwritten with the default contents on next nick app startup.

Playing Music

We ship some noise-making apps by default:

shoegaze

TODO

Otamatone

The highlighted blue petal makes noise.

Simple Drums

A simple gay step sequencer. Four groups of four steps, six insturments.

Hold one of the four left petals to select one of the four groups of steps, then short-press one of the four right petals to toggle the state of the sequencer.

Use the top petal to set BPM (tap a rhythm) or long-press to start/stop.

Use the bottom petal to switch instruments.

Melodic

Toy synthesizer. Bottom three petals select octave, Top 7 petals play a note from that octave.

Harmonic

Toy synthesizer. White petals select chord, pink petals play note.