LSOS Development Breadboard – simulate Pixel, String & RGB LED Blades!

The breadboard can simulate any type of blade and is a really nice tool for developing arduino based sabers. Since I’m not using any high power LEDs or strings, a DynaOhm is all it needs, making the transistors that would normally be required unnecessary. If I want to use a high ppower LED, there is…

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LSOS 1.5.2jb Preview

Latest tweaks to the LSOS 1.5 base code include: Quick mute Blade meter function for RGB LED, String Blade and Pixel Blade Battery meter Volume Meter Sound font color indicator & current font name on menu entry Demonstrated on my current work in progress which is a TCSS based hilt using my MHS compatible pixel/string…

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String/Pixel Blade 9-pin Connector & Charging Kits

Kits with the adapters needed to make a blade, blade plug, and charging plug for your string blade or pixel blade lightsaber!

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Wejack – prototyping hilt

Wejack, Algonquian for the animal known in English as a fisher, is a prototyping and development hilt and a tribute to our recently depart princess Carrie Fisher.

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Proteus

Introducing Proteus. This commission request was to base the design on a few photos of ancient African swords and to include the colors and theme of Barbados.  Since this was made for a friend on a tight budget, there was a challenge in materials and technique.  I worked up a few 3D concept designs, and…

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Topographical Lake Map

Materials: 15 sheets of card stock, glue, transparency film Statstics: area: 8×10 max height: 5/8″ max thickness: 65 layers This is very close to accurate scale, about as close as one can get with cutting card stock and gluing it together. The size of the lake and the thickness of the card stock happened to align very…

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R2ino

R2ino is an Arduino based partner board for the Plecter Labs Nano Biscotte v3 first installed in my Pathfinder hilt.  The setup consists of a Nano Biscotte V3, Arduino Pro Mini 3.3v, several WS2811/WS2812 LEDs and chips, a charge port with a leave-in kill key, 3.7v 18650, and aviation/CB style 8 pin connector.  The harness…

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Li’l Billy: A Yuleside Saber

Introducing Li’l Billy: A Yule Side Saber Li’l Billy is DIYino based lightsaber with a customized version of LSOS 1.3 I’ve dubbed DIYuletide.  Custom effects include a candy cane striped neopixel blade with matching ignition and extinguish effects and sequentially triggered swing sounds to enable the playing of a tune.  The font is YuleSide, a…

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Enhanced Amber Day Blade from TCSS

I know a lot of people have been interested in this. I took a scrap of clear, a scrap of the enhanced amber, and 5ft of gift wrap. For demonstration purposes I mated the two pieces of tubing around the gift wrap and left about half of the amber blade without diffusion. All of the…

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Apsara: The Truth of Movement

Presenting Apsara, The Truth of Movement. This was my first ever lightsaber build, from before I knew there was a community of people doing this sort of thing.  It was originally built as a budget hardware store hilt for my girlfriend for May 4th, rebuilt for her birthday. The electronics were originally a Hasbro BB…

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