Exporting to Bottango Impulse

Bottango Solar and Bottango Nova have a microSD card reader. Bottango Impulse does not. The easiest way to export animations and include Bottango Impulse in your project is to use a show controller board (Bottango Nova recommended). You can set up Bottango Nova to act as a show controller, and when in export mode, it will serve animations to your connected Bottango Impulse boards from its SD card.

Export to Code

If you want to export animations to Bottango Impulse and use it on its own without Bottango Solar or Bottango Nova, it is possible. When exporting, you can choose to export to “Driver Code” instead of “SD Card Files.” This will provide you with auto-generated C++ code compatible with the Bottango firmware that contains the animation data you exported. Your animation data will need to be around 150 KB or less to fit in the storage space available. You’ll also need to modify the Bottango Impulse’s firmware, enabling the module to read from the exported driver code.

Because the animation data comes from code rather than an SD card, you cannot switch dynamically back and forth with the UI as you can with Bottango Nova / Solar. To switch back, you’ll need to recompile and reupload the firmware with the module disabled and the animation data removed.