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Table of contents:

D.A.R.V.I.N® 3
Network and Simcard Requirements 4
Quick Start 5
Configuration and Info Screens 6
RNDIS/USB Driver Installation 9
Webbrowser Configuration 12
Remote Webinterface 21
Functions of D.A.R.V.I.N® 23
Functions of TeamDesk 29
D.A.R.V.I.N® - LIVE 32

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D.A.R.V.I.N®
Channel 1 (audio/video source)
Channel 2 (audio/video source)

Sensor Port GPS

AC/DC
3G/4G/LTE
WiFi 2,4/5 GHZ

LTE Diversity

12,6 cm

Simcard Slot

Network Port

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Network and SIM Requirements
Network:
Required open firewall port: 80
Required protocols: TCP and UDP

Sim card D.A.R.V.I.N® peer2peer:

3G/4G/LTE:, SIM card with public IP adress, the SIM card must be
standard size (NO micro/mini SIM cards)

Note: The IP address has to be public but there is no

need to have a fixed IP adress. Ask your provider to get
a public IP address for your SIM card.

Sim card D.A.R.V.I.N® Pegasos:

3G/4G/LTE, standard size SIM card (NO micro/mini SIM cards)

Symbol image* WiFi antenna

Note: The connections of the WLAN and GSM
antennas are different, avoid a mix-up to prevent
any damage!

Symbol image* GSM antenna

*The symbol images are antennas examples, they may differ in colour and appearance of the symbol images.

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Quick Start Pegasos
Step 1 – Preparing the device

Switch on the device (manual; page 6) and press the gear icon on the main screen. Then press
the config button (manual; page 7). Be sure that PEGASOS is selected. Confirm this by using
the check mark.

Step 2 – Preparing the computer – RNDIS driver installation

Press the setup button (manual; page 7) and connect the device with the PC (with Windows operating
system) via the provided USB cable. Then follow the instructions beginning at page 9 depending on
your current Windows version. The driver installation is required for the D.A.R.V.I.N® web configuration
on the PC. Keep the USB connection until the configuration process is finished.

Step 3 – D.A.R.V.I.N® configuration

After the successful driver installation and with the device still attached to the PC, enter the internet
address http://192.168.3.1 in your web browser (manual; page 12) and in the login screen enter
username and password. Now you are in the configuration backend of D.A.R.V.I.N®. The system
provides very versatile configuration options – for example to enable the manual WLAN configuration
on-screen via the “on-device setup” option or, when using a SIM card, to configure the APN settings
manually and ondemand.

Step 4 – definition of authorized contacts

Add your users in the contact list (manual; page 19) who are allowed to receive an invitation SMS
or email with the pin code (for connecting the teamdesk software). After this is done, just logout
(manual; page 20) and disconnect the USB cable from the device.

Step 5 – establish a LIVE-connection

Press the LIVE button on the main screen (manual; page 32), select your partner from the user list
(see step 4) and select the connection type – for example 3G, WLAN or Ethernet. The connection is
initialized immediately. The selected user receives the invitation code (pin code) either via SMS or
email. The partner starts the teamdesk software on his Windows PC and enters this pin code (manual;
page 33). In this window the partner has the possibility to define a given proxy server or other network
specific options. An appropriate internet connection is required on the PC for teamdesk LIVE
communication. Finally the connection is established and the D.A.R.V.I.N® user shares his
experience with the invited partner in realtime.

Step 6 – teamdesk features

On page 29 you find a more detailed description of the teamdesk functions.

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Configuration and Info Screen
Start D.A.R.V.I.N® using the power switch (see section 10). Once D.A.R.V.I.N® is ready,
the following screen appears:

Now click on the orange cog icon on the right to go to the next screen.

By pressing the “Admin” button D.A.R.V.I.N® can connect to the internet and starts the
webinterface for remote maintainance. See Page 21.

By pressing the Update button, you will have the possibility to update and enhance the
D.A.R.V.I.N® features. You need more features? - Simply contact your competent
D.A.R.V.I.N® partner or send an email to office@spintower.eu

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 Here you´ll find information about the
D.A.R.V.I.N-ID, IMEI und AKKU

#The „Config”-button will lead

you to the following menu:

Send SMS to invited user: Here you can define whether an invitation to the SMS
Contact invitees should be sent or not.

Connection:
Automatic recognition of the connection between DARVIN and TeamDesk software.

Activate this point, if you are running DARVIN "Pegasos"

Activate this point, if you are running DARVIN "peer2peer"

Activate this point, if you want to run the livestream connection via a RTSP Server

Activate this point, if DARVIN and TeamDesk software are in the same network

Confirm your choice

GPS:
In this menu one can enable the
GPS feature of D.A.R.V.I.N®.
We recommend to use our
provided active GPS antenna
and therefore enable the “GPS
Antenna Power” for an even
better accuracy.

Warning: If you would like to

use your own antenna please
set “GPS Antenna Power” to
“No”!

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System:
If there is an SIM card inserted
into the D.A.R.V.I.N® it is
possible to additionally send an
SMS during invitation.
Therefore, the according
phonenumber must be entered
in the webinterface. (see Page
19).

To show a timestamp in the

videostream of D.A.R.V.I.N®
set “Show Time in Video” to
“Yes”.

Preparation of the wired D.A.R.V.I.N browser

configuration (please see also wireless config.)
Here, select SETUP and connect D.A.R.V.I.N® to your PC using a USB cable (picture 1 on
the screen); then, start your Internet browser on your PC (item 2) and follow the description
below for web configuration (page 12). If you connect D.A.R.V.I.N® the first time to your
PC/Notebook please follow the RNDIS driver installation page 9.
Note: Point 3 and 4 on the screen are needed after the Rndis driver installation.

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RNDIS/USB Driver Installation
Note: Just needed at the initial connection to your PC/laptop/tablet
and administration rights required on Windows 7/8
Step 1: Start the Device Manager: Win7: Click the windows icon (located at the left bottom left of
the taskbar), enter "Device Manager" in the search box and start the search. Select at results the
Device Manager and double-click the icon. Win8: Right click on Window icon, select (located at
the left bottom left of the taskbar), Device Manager and double-click the icon.

Step 2: Find the

“RNDIS/EthernetGadget”

Step 3: Right mouse click on

the entry and select “Update
Driver Software

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Step 4: Choose
“Browse my computer for driver software”

Step 5: Then select “Let me pick from a list of

device drivers on my computer”

Step 6: From the list select

“Network adapters”

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Step 7: For “Manufacturer”
choose “Microsoft” and for
“Network adapter” select
“Remote NDIS based Internet
Sharing Device”

Step 8: Confirm the “Update Driver Warning” by

clicking on “Yes”

Step 9: When you see this message, the driver

installation has finished successfully:

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Webbrowser Configuration
Changes in the web frontend are only applied once the user has clicked on one of the following
action buttons:

LOG IN

Enter the following IP address (USB connected D.A.R.V.I.N®) in your Internet browser
(e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.):

http://192.168.3.1

- to access the web administration tool of D.A.R.V.I.N®.

Enter at the first log in the default password and username:

Username: admin
Password: admin

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Changing the default password

Click on the “Administrator” button and enter your details here (password, name and
address of the device administrator) and save by clicking “Send”.

“Device information”
Enter the data here to personalise your D.A.R.V.I.N® device and save it by clicking“Send”.

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“Connection settings”

Mobile Network:
The SIM card can be used with a SIM PIN (security setting) by entering the pin in the appropriate field;
alternatively, you can choose not to use a pin, in that case this must be disabled in advance – the “SIM
PIN” field then remains empty.

Note: A new SIM PIN must first be confirmed by pressing [SEND] before it can be tested by pressing [SIMTest].
Change the default APN parameter entry of your used SIM card. Click on the "APN settings" button.
More information regarding APN settings can be found on page 17!

On-Device-Setup:
Enable this feature to give the D.A.R.V.I.N® user the option of entering the APN configuration manually
and you will geta list of identified and suitable APN configurations (telephone provider).

Note: Check with your provider if the SIM card has a public IP address, if you use D.A.R.V.I.N® “Peer2Peer” with
D.A.R.V.I.N® „Pegasos“ no public IP adress is needed!

WiFi:
Please enter your SSID, password and choose the encryption type for your WLAN network here if you
want to run your D.A.R.V.I.N® using WiFi and save your settings by clicking “Send”.

On-Device-Setup:
Enable this feature to give the D.A.R.V.I.N® user the option of entering the configuration data of the WiFi.
Likewise, you have the possibility - for internet connection and authorization via WiFi - to enter user name
and password.

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802.1x (PEAP-MSChAPv2)
Username:
Enter a username if your wifi network desires a user profile (radius server).

Password:
Enter the password for your wifi user account.

CA certificate:
If necessary click on „Browse“ to upload a certificate.

WiFi Roaming
Roaming
Activate/deactive the roaming in the Wifi
Note: The roaming activation will increase the electric power consumption!

Signal Strengh Treshold

Choose the strengh treshold

Short Scan Interval

If the signal strengh falls below the signal strengh treshold you can choose here the time inverval of
the wifi scan.

Long Scan Interval

If the signal strengh doesn´t fall under the signal strengh treshold, you can choose here the long scan
interval of the wifi roaming.

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Web Browser - Address bar:
This option is only available with activated on-device setup. Here you have the possibility to start in a web
address in order to get to the respective login page with your username and password.

Session server and Pegasos server:

Please enter the IP address and port of the session server (standard setting: 158.255.212.238) and
the Pegasus server (if you have D.A.R.V.I.N® Pegasos in use).

RTSP Server: If you want to use a rtsp connection for your livestream enter the according
username and password.

Network: Adjust the MTU if your network uses a smaller one. If UPnP is enabled in your network,
you can try to activate it on D.A.R.V.I.N®. to get an even better connection.

Note: Save all your settings by clicking „Send“ button!

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After clicking on “APN settings”, the following window will appear. Here, you can select the appropriate
country of the provider and the provider itself from the drop-down menu, clicking “OK” to confirm your
selection.

If you do not find your provider in the list, you can configure the APN settings by clicking
“Manually enter APN settings” and confirm what you have entered by clicking “OK”.

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„Streaming-Profile“
Here, you can add communication profiles (quality levels) for your live streaming to suit your
network circumstances. To use these profiles, simply activate them on D.A.R.V.I.N®, when
choosing between the connection types (Ethernet, Mobile Network, WiFi).

Note: The values entered should correspond to your actual network circumstances;
otherwise, it will “skip” and drop frames both in video and in audio communication. When
establishing a connection when using D.A.R.V.I.N®, you should always select the
appropriate profile to get the best video/audio quality for the available bandwidth.“

Add Streaming Profile

Name: Enter a name of your choice for the streaming profile.

Resolution: Choose one of the 3 available resolutions.
Refresh: Select either „Continuous Refresh“ or „Frame Based Refresh“.
Minimum/Maximum Bitrate: Enter a minimum and a maximum for the bitrate. Only use appropriate values
which suit your connection.
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Bitrate Control: If you want to use our automatic bitrate detection choose „Auto“.
Motion Adaption: You can either choose between „High Frame Rate“ and „High Image Resolution“ or use
our automatic mode.
Audio: Enable or disable the audio communication.

„Contacts“
To add a new user, click on the “+” icon; to remove/delete users, click the red X icon in the name line.
Enter your administrator (or administrators) for the remote administration of D.A.R.V.I.N® (Page 21).

Enter the names, mobile phone numbers and email addresses of the users , who should receive a SMS
and/or Email to start the Teamdesk software.

Note: The users (administrator and users) only have the rights given. An administrator is therefore “only” an
administrator and not a user. If you nevertheless want the administrator to also be a user, simply create
another contact for the appropriate colleague, this time as a user.

We recommend leaving the Spintower administrator in the list as this user can assist you, if necessary, with
remote maintenance. The Spintower administrator will just have access, if you allow and invite him. The
Testuser is just for testing purposes, if you don´t need any further tests, delete him. Your data security is a
top priority for us!

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„Invitations“
This text is displayed in addition to the standard text in the notifications SMS/Email (with the sent
security PIN code). After entering the text, save by clicking “Send”.

„System“
Touchscreen: Click „Calibrate“ to start a touchscreen calibration program on the
D.A.R.V.I.N®. Reset the calibration by clicking on „Reset“.

Power: Under this menu item, you can find the button “Shutdown” to shut down the system and
the “Restart” button to restart D.A.R.V.I.N®.

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Remote Webinterface

Beside the wired config option which is described before (starting at

page 8) you are also able to configure D.A.R.V.I.N® via a wireless
WIFI connection. It is also possible to start maintaining D.A.R.V.I.N®
remotely with the “Admin” mode.

Click the “Admin” Button in the Settings of the D.A.R.V.I.N unit.

Select the admin contact which is registered in the D.A.R.V.I.N® contacts (see Page
19).

Choose Wi-Fi

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The chosen admin will receive an E-Mail with the link to the hosted webinterface in
your local Wifi (Please note: it is an internal link of the temporary WIFI IP address
which was given from your DHCP server– so it is an absolutely safe link and no
possibility to enter from outside or an internal IP address of your local network!)
The connection is an encrypted https connection to prevent unauthorized persons
to access!

After establishing the connection, D.A.R.V.I.N® shows the according URL to

access the web interface. Type this link in your browser (tablet, smartphone or PC
which must be in the same WIFI net) and you will have direct wireless access to
the administration tool. You will see a certificate error which just means that is an
unknown IP address because the given IP address from your DHCP server
changes normally at each connection.

Tip: A very fast and efficient method to access the webinterface

is via a mobile hotspot. Start a hotspot on your smartphone and
connect D.A.R.V.I.N® to it. Now you can access the
webinterface via your smartphone browser and the given URL.

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Functions of D.A.R.V.I.N®
Start D.A.R.V.I.N® using the power switch. Once D.A.R.V.I.N® is ready, the following
screen appears:

Explanation of icons:
View:
Clicking here does not establish a connection to a remote terminal (TeamDesk software), but simply
takes you to “View mode”. You can see the video image of the headset on the touchscreen. This mode
is used for documentation (a recording is also possible here) or for test purposes.

Live:
Here, you create a highly encrypted connection in real time to a remote terminal
(TeamDesk/Commanddesk software).

Quick:
The Quick feature make it possible to immediately reestablish your last connection. Clicking on it first
opens an overview of your last connection parameters.

Cog wheel icon:

This takes you to a variety of configuration modes.

Switch off icon:

Pressing this icon shuts down your D.A.R.V.I.N®.

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After successfully establishing a connection (see page 32 D.A.R.V.I.N® − Live), you will see the
following menu structure on your D.A.R.V.I.N®.

Channel selection
Press the “Source” icon to choose between the two camera outputs.
If you have connected the headset for example on CH1 and an endoscope
on CH2, you can now switch between these devices with this function!

Screendub
Using the “Screendub” button, you can see everything that your authorised
partner has approved with the Screendub function of the TeamDesk
software, be it an image or video – you are always live through a highly
encrypted connection. Note: The Screendub function uses additional
bandwidth!

Live recording
Using this button opens the record menu.

Receiving data, additional information, etc.

The functions are explained in detail on the following pages!

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Disconnect
Using this function terminates the connection, and D.A.R.V.I.N® returns
to the home screen.

Record Video
Using this button will start the recording on your D.A.R.V.I.N®. This
recording can be viewed at any time with a USB connection on your
PC/laptop and secured for reporting purposes.

Save Screenshot
Click this to make a screenshot of your current video stream. The
screenshot can also be viewed via an USB connection on your PC.

Send Screenshot
Click this button to make a screenshot, save it on the D.A.R.V.I.N® and
send it to the TeamDesk/CommandDesk.

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Pressing the function button
Pressing the function button once displays the cross hairs to make it easier to focus on
certain areas.

Pressing the function button twice

Pressing the function button twice displays additional information on your D.A.R.V.I.N®
screen above: the connection strength of your GSM/WiFi connection is shown at the
top left, the percentage battery life is also given, and “1>2>S” tells you what channel
you are using. (See fig.)

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Press the arrow button to get into the brightness settings menu.

You will see the current value (maximum 100) at the top right, and underneath

icon to increase the brightness of the display,

icon to decrease the brightness of the display,

icon to dim the display, which is reactivated by pressing buttons on the display

Press the arrow buttons to get to the menu for controlling the volume of the headphones.

Press the “+” button to increase the volume.

Press to turn the headset to “mute”.

Press the “-” button to decrease the volume.

Press the arrow buttons to get to the menu for controlling the volume of the
microphone (see next page).

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 Press the “+” button to increase the volume of the microphone.

Press this icon to turn the headset to “mute”.

Press the “-” button to decrease the volume of the microphone.
Press the “MICGAIN” button to activate the microphone amplifier.

Press the arrow buttons again to move back to the main viewing level.

Pressing the function button three times

Press the function button three times to display the image sent by the authorised partner
from the TeamDesk functions!

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Functions of TeamDesk

Change this option to increase or decrease the video puffer.

Attention: The higher the value, the higher the time lag (latency)!

Clicking this symbol opens the network monitor to analyze the data traffic (bandwidth
/packet loss) Note: The less packet loss in the network , the higher the image quality of the
video transmission!

Screendub function
allows you to send a snippet of your
screen to D.A.R.V.I.N®. This snippet can contain parts of your desktop, images
or videos. Note: The Screendub function uses additional bandwidth of your
connection!

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Video scribble function
allows you to capture images of
the live D.A.R.V.I.N® image, to mark parts within them, to label them and send to
D.A.R.V.I.N® using the “Send” button.

Desktop scribble function

Click the “Desktop scribble” button to display the following floating window, which
allows you to take screenshot snippets of images, videos or your desktop, to mark
parts therein (see selection options on the right), to label them, and to send them
to D.A.R.V.I.N® using the “Send” button.

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 To send (and end the scribble function) the modified pictures, click the „Send” icon.

To exit the scribble function (without sending any images), click the „X” icon.

Adjust bandwidth/video quality

By pressing the up and down
buttons you are able to adjust
the video bandwidth from 0,256
MBit up to 4 MBit - on the fly!
Note: the video quality depends
on the available bandwidth!

Adjust microphone loudness of the D.A.R.V.I.N unit

By pressing the up and down
buttons you are able to adjust
the microphone settings of the
D.A.R.V.I.N unit from quiet 0%
up to loud 100%.
Activate/Deactivate the
microphone booster by checking
the box. Note: These settings
have nothing to do with your local microphone settings of your
PC/Laptop/Tablet!

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D.A.R.V.I.N® – LIVE!
Select the “Live” button from the home screen (touchscreen on your D.A.R.V.I.N®). A list will
appear of authorised partners (that you previously created as users during web configuration).

Now, select a partner contact from the list with whom you want to establish an encrypted connection
in real time and confirm your selection with the orange/white arrow icon.

Now select the desired streaming profile („default“ is the standard configuration – use the web
interface to add more streaming profiles).

Additionally choose between an ethernet, mobile network or wi-fi connection.

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Note: See also Browser administration/Streaming profiles page 18.

If you choose the wi-fi connection, the wi-fi Settings will open.

SSID: Enter the SSID of your wifi. You could also press the wifi button to the right to scan the SSIDs in
your area“.
Security: Choose the security type of your wifi
Key: Enter the key of your wifi network

Disable 5Ghz Band: Click „No“ to enable 5Ghz WIFIs.

Browser Login: If your WiFi network requires a html browser login, click yes to enable it with
D.A.R.V.I.N®.

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If you choose the “Mobile Network” connection, the 3G/LTE Settings will open.

select: Click to open apn setting presets for your mobile sim card. Choose one of them and click the
orange tick in the top right corner to start the connection. If needed one can also enter custom apn
settings. If the settings are unclear ask your network admistrator.

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A connection will now be established with the partner contact selected previously.
At the same time, this partner will be notified via e-mail and SMS (depending on connection type) and
a security pin code will be sent.

The invited contact just have to start the TeamDesk software on his laptop/PC/tablet, enter the
sent security PIN code.and press the arrow icon to connect.

View of selected partner contact, TeamDesk view

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Activation of the Proxy server checkbox (Advanced settings)
If you use a proxy server on your network, please enter your data. You have the choice between a
Socks5 and HTTP proxy. For questions regarding the configuration and login data, please contact your
network administrator.

Network tab (Advanced Settings)

Auto Reconnect
By activating the "Auto Reconnect" checkbox, an automatic
reconnection (in case of a unintentional disconnection) will be done.

Look for UPNP IGD

By activating the "Look for UPNP IGD" checkbox, anautomatic
scan for UPnP-enabled devices will be done.

TCP buffer size

Adaptation of the TCP buffer size

UDP buffer size

Adaptation of the UDP buffer size

Note: By changing the TCP and UDP buffer size you are able to
customize the video quality on your network needs. Inappropriate
settings can have a negative effect on the video stream quality!

Pegasos tab (Advanced Settings)

Force TCP connection to Pegasos Server
Use this option to force a TCP connection (instead of UDP protocol)
to the Pegasos server.

Force Pegasos Server

Use this option to use another Pegasos server an port.

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 ...and the connection will be established after the authorized
connection was confirmed by D.A.R.V.I.N®.

The Teamdesk partner sees exactly the same, live and highly
encrypted, what the D.A.R.V.I.N® user sees on-site and
D.A.R.V.I.N® is ready for audio, video and data communication.

View Teamdesk software

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View D.A.R.V.I.N®

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Notes:

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All contents are subject to the copyright of Spintower KG and may not be reproduced, in whole or in
part, without written consent.

D.A.R.V.I.N® is a registered trademark of the Spintower KG!

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