Hey folks!
I've been lurking these forums and other for about a month now. I'm a mechanical engineering student with about 1800000000 hobbies (I counted). Recently I've been trying knifemaking with some success, but I'm ALWAYS trying new things.
I've always been a huge Star Wars fan, so when I discovered that there were LED lightsabers with sound that you could actually duel with, I was thrilled. When I discovered that I could make my own...well, you get the idea.
I sold some knives I recently made to help get some funds for my new lightsaber hobby. My plan is to order a Vader's Vault combat class saber so I'll have a high quality saber to reference, and then I'm going to dive head-first into an MHS build.
I'm super excited to see the MHSv2 series coming out, and I'm going to try to base my first saber build on that. The problem is, the longer I look around these forums, the more complicated my ideas for a first saber build are getting...
Currently, I'm planning on 3d printing a custom chassis for a Nano Biscotte and an 18650. With that, I'm probably going to use a Trirebel RGB wired parallel with slide switches so I can obtain 6 different colors (only one or two leds will ever be used at a time). I would reaaally like to use an RGBW X4 LED so I can wire the W for FOC while still using the other colors for blending. There will be a 2W speaker of course...but that should be easy to figure out.
Of course, I can't REALLY design well for this until I see what's available for MHSv2..but I have a lot of ideas floating around. I've done some ridiculously simple sautering for robotics and stuff, but I've never actually done my own wiring like this before so it should be fun...but with a few weeks till MHSv2 comes out I have time to do my research, right?
I'm excited to be a member here, this looks like a great place to learn!
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