The Haslab board monitors the voltage draw of the wand veeeeeeeery carefully, when the wand is plugged into the pack. From that reading, it can tell what the wand is doing, and react accordingly. Since there are no sensors or outputs of any sort on the wand, that was Hasbro's only option (without getting into soldering and having people open up the wands).
There are a couple of aftermarket boards that can do the same thing, like NinjaTunes, which is a full replacement control board for the Haslab pack, which reads the power draw of the wand in the same way. So I assume it's possible.
There is no sound channel in the wand that relays information to the pack. That said, people have opened the wand and hijacked the sound output and simply run a new wire to the pack, to feed into other speakers, etc.
There are a couple of aftermarket boards that can do the same thing, like NinjaTunes, which is a full replacement control board for the Haslab pack, which reads the power draw of the wand in the same way. So I assume it's possible.
There is no sound channel in the wand that relays information to the pack. That said, people have opened the wand and hijacked the sound output and simply run a new wire to the pack, to feed into other speakers, etc.
Statistics: Posted by kman — February 20th, 2024, 6:34 pm