Here's a (tested and functional) diagram using the Adafruit item linked in this thread. It lets me charge the internal battery with any 5v mini-USB source (they also make a microUSB version).
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Here's a (tested and functional) diagram using the Adafruit item linked in this thread. It lets me charge the internal battery with any 5v mini-USB source (they also make a microUSB version).
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If you have access to a 3-D printer, you might be interested in some DV saber-parts I whipped up. Nothing here competes with anything TCSS makes or sells, all your electric/electronic bits ought to...
If you had a "DPST" switch (Dual Pole, Single Throw - which is essentially two switches with one toggle arm) you could still keep your two circuits isolated.
Cool hardware saber! I like a heavier hilt too.
Looks like a great start! Electronics are the hard part, so now you get to play with different styles.
Great looking hilt!
29mm is a bit large for the blade/LED parts sold here, but if you are machining things anyway, you should be able to make yourself a sleeve to get the internal diameter down to...
Does light work that way: 1600 lumens from each die, so 3200 from two dice, 4800 from three dice?
If so, two is twice as bright as one, and three is 1.5x as bright as two, four is 1.33x as three...
You need a base for under your hilt tube on your drill press. It should have a V shaped groove in it, where both sides of the groove are angled the same (so both sides of the groove are 45 degree...
FWiW, the second (and therefore first) diagram here works great. Recharges via mini-USB, looks and sounds great.
It's only crammed at the moment, so I need to put a proper chassis together, but...
Looks good in the tiny pic! Got any close ups? Is it a hilt, stunt, or sound saber?
Looks awesome!
Grind out the 4-way so that the main hilt tube extends all the way through it. Then you only need little holes for the wires to get to the cross-guard LEDs.
or
Cut the short cross-guard pieces...
Could you put the tip on the other end and hide the mess in the hilt?
Buy whatever you think will be the longest you could use will be, and then you can always use a pipe-cutter, or (very carefully) a saw to customize the length.
By asymmetrical, we are talking about emitters like Style 12 http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/Assets/ProductImages/holder12a_t.jpg and Style 20...
This is true about literally everything in the store.
Couldn't you make outer sleeves longer and asymetrical? You'd be at the mercy of the threads as to which way the slant/scoop ended up...
But you need a tool to remove your blade. Nobody's saying the current way is bad, just that this way would be cool.
I bet you could get him to call them FenixFire-style collets :)
The cool factor on this idea is through the roof. The people in this hobby do stuff that's cool, just for the sake of it being cool. In my opinion, if TCSS had a product of this type with a sub-$75...
Instead of a background hum, a background gurgle...
Also, not for nothing, but it's cheaper and easier to paint the lens of your flashlight green with a magic marker, duct tape a golf club protector tube to it and make the vroom vroom noises with your...
That sketch should be thrown in the store wishlist thread :)
One might be a hundreds-of-dollars part, but once Tim's made one, the cost of setup can be amortized over many purchases.
The...
Sounds like a cool idea. I would think the place to look would be the quick release connectors for pneumatic tools: air hammers and whatnot.
You need it signed by ****Knocker himself, Mark Hamill!
That's how I'd try it at first