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Silver Serpent
11-18-2010, 07:29 AM
Saw this on ThinkGeek today and immediately thought it might be an interesting way to power on a lightsaber.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/collectibles/e624/

I'm gonna hit up the stores this weekend and see if I can track one of these down. It shouldn't be too hard to wire up a voice-activated stunt saber similar to the way we use the economy boards.

Skottsaber
11-18-2010, 09:40 AM
I wonder how accurate it is... and it would be much better if it recognised "activate" :p

ARKM
11-18-2010, 04:18 PM
Excellent find. I can't wait to see a saber using this tech.

cardcollector
11-18-2010, 04:24 PM
I can just see it...
"you talkin' to me?"
VVROOOOOOOOOOOOMMmmmmMMmmmMM..

:D

Rathan
11-18-2010, 05:18 PM
If you read the description it says "Actually, you get to record each sound command. So you can make any spell, word, or sound turn on and off your wand light."

equinox13
11-18-2010, 05:23 PM
that is sooo cool! ^_^ can't wait for the videos people will make with them now.

Mind-gon Ohnobi
11-19-2010, 06:40 AM
Oh, wow. I'll risk Wars/Trek blasphemy here.

This opens the door to Jean-Luc Picard's "Engage"- activated lightsaber...

Rhyen Skytracker
11-19-2010, 08:44 PM
I have one on the way. hehe

Rhyen Skytracker
11-24-2010, 03:12 PM
Sorry for the double post, but I want to make sure no one buys this to try in a saber. It barely works as a voice activated wand. It is very picky on voice activation. In order for you to turn it on you have to shake the wand, wait 4 seconds and then say the on word. To turn it off shake the wand, wait 4 seconds and say the off word. You can override the voice activation and turn on the wand by shaking it 3 times and to turn off shake it 3 more times. All of the shaking involved to make it work makes it unusable in a saber. So, do not get this and expect it to work in a saber.

equinox13
11-25-2010, 01:09 AM
ok that really sucks... thanks for the info Rhyen. ^_^

Silver Serpent
11-25-2010, 10:48 AM
Bah. It seemed like such a neat idea too. I was pretty sure it wouldn't do well in a saber with sound, but I was hoping it'd be cool in a stunt. Oh well, time to keep looking for other neat things with possible saber applications.

Rhyen Skytracker
11-25-2010, 01:06 PM
I was very disappointed with this product even as a wand. The voice activation doesn't work well at all so you pretty much have to use the manual activation (shake 3 times) to turn on and off. I would not suggest ANYONE waste their money on this item.

Skottsaber
11-26-2010, 04:26 AM
Maybe you are just more a Jedi than a Wizard...

equinox13
11-26-2010, 05:22 AM
sounds like a basic novelty item to me. i think we could rig the shake sensor to a hidden pressure switch on the outside, but the voice recognition issue would still be a failing.

Rhyen Skytracker
11-28-2010, 02:36 AM
Even if you put the switch on the outside of the saber or hide it somewhere the problem will be when you are dueling with the saber and if it picks up some movments from the saber as 3 shakes it will turn it off. Anytime there is 3 shakes it will turn the device off or on. As for the voice recognition, I had my wife and little girl train different words for on and off for the wand and it was still very unreliable turning on and off with the voice recognition.

Jedi-Loreen
11-28-2010, 03:30 PM
Try using someone with no accent. ;)


:p

equinox13
11-28-2010, 04:30 PM
or someone with a british accent.

Jedi-Loreen
11-28-2010, 06:25 PM
That, too. As long as it's a somewhat refined British accent, and not too regional. :p

Rhyen Skytracker
11-28-2010, 07:19 PM
That is why I tried it with several different people and it is still very unreliable. My wife doesn't have much of an accent at all and she tried it with the same unreliable results. My little girl like to play with it but she doesn't use the voice activation, she uses the 3 shakes on/off to turn it on.

Skottsaber
11-29-2010, 03:32 AM
That, too. As long as it's a somewhat refined British accent, and not too regional. :p


*ahem*
How about a hybrid South African/English accent?

equinox13
11-29-2010, 03:51 AM
*ahem*
How about a hybrid South African/English accent?

sounds English to me! ^_^

Gin Malinko
12-01-2010, 01:07 AM
even if this wand is a fail. maybe we could pass the idea along to Evr, and see if he could put voice activation in his next CF update.

Skottsaber
12-01-2010, 04:45 AM
Thats quite a big project.
You need microphones, and then on the firmware code to recognise speech perfectly each time, and over the sound on the saber, and then you need to place the microphone somewhere on the hilt.

And besides, voice activation doesn't exist in Star Wars anyway. I doubt this would be a feature on a CF any time soon.

ThreeQuadFive
03-02-2011, 09:35 AM
Is there a way to bypass the shake sensor and just hard wire it so it's always on, so as to at least be able to just use the voice commands?

Sunrider
03-02-2011, 11:03 AM
Ether way I would not bother ERV with this. A saber is not a droid. And holding your saber next to your face and talking to it is hmm... How should I put it? Not Star Wars. :lol:

Loachri MacTalabh
03-02-2011, 12:12 PM
Actually Erv has thought about a motion sensing power on. The video I found is from May 2010, so I don't know if you all have seen it. But here is it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slvaIOJvM2M&feature=BF&list=QL&index=2

Silver Serpent
03-02-2011, 12:24 PM
The CFv5 manual lists "Motion Activated Ignition" as one of its features. I'd say it's safe to assume he liked the idea.

I actually wracked my brain for a while about the voice feature. I just couldn't think of any good activation commands that sounded Star Warsy. "May the Force be with you" takes too long in combat.

Komakon
03-02-2011, 03:35 PM
Really it doesn't seem practical.
Unless you yell "DIE" every time. > But if your enemy knew about this, your in for a world of hurt! < Mwahahaha

ThreeQuadFive
03-03-2011, 02:53 PM
Really it doesn't seem practical.
Unless you yell "DIE" every time. > But if your enemy knew about this, your in for a world of hurt! < Mwahahaha

Like a bad anime? ROUNDHOUSESPECTACULARSURPRISEATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAACK!

cardcollector
03-05-2011, 08:19 AM
Really it doesn't seem practical.
Unless you yell "DIE" every time. > But if your enemy knew about this, your in for a world of hurt! < Mwahahaha

This guy had that same Idea...
http://www.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2009_Night_at_the_Museum__Battle_of_the_Smithsonia n/009NMBS_Bill_Hader_002.jpg&sa=X&ei=ZFNyTbmkOMOUtwfzxvmTDw&ved=0CAQQ8wc4hwE&usg=AFQjCNEkYmVa1O3-6nvP6res8JZyoLzbxg
We are not Attacking..... NOW!!!