Posts Tagged “lightsaber”

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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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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