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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: Dr.Chipotle on Mon, 25 August 2014, 10:58:23
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So i want to build a custom lightsaber, but dont know what to do with LED's and sound boards? somone out there wanna help?
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I bet there are other forums better suited for that.
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You'll need Kaliburr crystals and an intimate knowledge of the force.
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You'll need Kaliburr crystals and an intimate knowledge of the force.
^This
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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/26/us/new-lightsaber-molecule/
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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/26/us/new-lightsaber-molecule/
I've settled for a sawed off broom handle + imagination + wh0zzeuuummm sound effects made personally by moi.
Budget way ftw..
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tp4, is that you?
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I can smell your mom's lightsaber...
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The worst thing about the "Star Wars Kid" video, is that the whole episode inspired him to become a frakkin' lawyer ...
You'll need Kaliburr crystals and an intimate knowledge of the force.
It is hard to find transfer to Ilum and back.
I suggest The Custom Saber Shop (http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/). They have got all supplies you would need. The different "Modular Hilt System" parts just screw together. There is also a forum with lots of info about building and posts of custom designs. Mind you, I have not been active there for several years.
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**** off chiptole.
A real doctor uses a sonic screwdriver or medical tricorder.
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tp4, is that you?
:))
I never achieved such p00f-ness.. and I don't look into the camera like that while I do play pretend lightsabers.
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So i want to build a custom lightsaber, but dont know what to do with LED's and sound boards? somone out there wanna help?
The Custom Saber Shop
FX-Sabers
Saberforum
Those three sites will have all the info you need.
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So i want to build a custom lightsaber, but dont know what to do with LED's and sound boards? somone out there wanna help?
The Custom Saber Shop
FX-Sabers
Saberforum
Those three sites will have all the info you need.
thanks.
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You need a few things:
1. Power source.
2. Power controller.
3. Power crystal.
4. Focus crystal.
5. Cooling and case materials.
6. A button. Very important, this one is.
7. To exist long, long ago in a galaxy far away and have had enough Jedi training to construct your own lightsaber.
And hey presto, custom lightsaber.
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(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/14/144096/3388467-5708231518-arres.gif)
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You need a few things:
1. Power source.
2. Power controller.
3. Power crystal.
4. Focus crystal.
5. Cooling and case materials.
6. A button. Very important, this one is.
7. To exist long, long ago in a galaxy far away and have had enough Jedi training to construct your own lightsaber.
And hey presto, custom lightsaber.
This brings up a good question... How many watts is a lightsaber...
I'm thinking peak output, probably ~1 Megawatt.. since a basic plasma cutter with no beam formation is already 10Kw..
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The in-universe saying is that a lightsaber does not expend that much energy unless it is actually cutting ... but everything is relative. :rolleyes:
The earliest lightsabers used a separate belt-mounted power pack. Later ones used a "nucleonic pill" as power source.
As safety features, the insides of a lightsaber has a mirror surface to reflect stray energy back into the lightsaber's mechanism to make it destroy itself on malfunction before it destroys something else. The casing and emitter shroud / parry plate is often made from a cortosis alloy - cortosis being the only metal known to absorb lightsaber energy instead of being cut by it. It is, however, incredibly rare on Earth.
Back in the Sith Wars, a millenium before the Galactic CIvil War, cortosis was mined on far-away asteroids at a great cost, both in funds and in lives.
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You'll need Kaliburr crystals and an intimate knowledge of the force.
I think many of the crystal mines were choked with fill dirt to make way for the new Galactic Highway cutting through the outer rim. Or so tales be told...