Dark Jedi Miklan Welown and Apprentice Gabard Welown‘s Fyra sabers

[welshm85]

So I recently picked up 2 Ultrasabers stunt sabers, the Aeon V4 and the Apprentice V4, for my 6 year old and myself. After getting them and going to the park to “duel” on the wooden playground equipment. My 6 year old asks me, “how can we put sound into these sabers?” I guess he was embarrassed with making lightsaber noises.

Anyway I also picked up 2 Hasbro Blade Builders sabers from Target and split them in half to get the sound boards. I glued them back together and now we just have cheap plastic toy lightsabers.

I then started watching all the YouTube videos I could find on installing soundcards. Rob Petkau’s videos were great, and Odin’s video from Odin Makes was very helpful. After rewatching and rewatching I felt confident enough that I started ordering all my parts.

From TCSS:
16mm Anti Vandal Momentary Stainless Switch
MPS Insert style 7
MPS Clip
BuckPuck 1000mA 4-wire
JST Extension Green 26 AWG
1/8" Heatshrink tubing
MPS Pommel style 6


From Hasbro:
Blade Builders Saber sound card
Stock speaker

From US:
Existing Led module and 4aaa battery pack from the Aeon and Apprentice

From Saberforge:
Red Day Blade

The build went really well. I have more wire in them than I need and will go in and clean that up later. I ended up using 4 different saber parts suppliers for our sabers. Hence the name fyra saber. Fyra is four in Swedish and I have a lot of Swedish ancestors on my maternal grandmother’s side. Anyway they are complete and here they are:

[Tom Tilmon]

Parenthood winning! For a 15$ soundboard, not bad. Now you and your son don't have to make your own sound effects! WTG! Winning parenthood, out fighting with sabers at the park. That is awesome.

[Whosle]

Awesome!

I noticed the diagram in the back, would you mind posting it? I haven't seen a buckpuck working with a econo bladebuilders board.

If you hook the speaker negative to a tip42c and feed that to your LED, you can get a nice flicker effect in the blade.

You might be able to use a tri-cree with 2 die on the buckpuck and one flickering die on the tip42c/speaker negative.

Once you have these figured out, you can be confident a pro board install will go smooth.

[welshm85]

I noticed the diagram in the back, would you mind posting it?

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I haven't seen a buckpuck working with a econo bladebuilders board.

I got the idea from this video:

If you hook the speaker negative to a tip42c and feed that to your LED, you can get a nice flicker effect in the blade.

Would I be able to jumper the LED- to the Battery- on the board?

You might be able to use a tri-cree with 2 die on the buckpuck and one flickering die on the tip42c/speaker negative. Once you have these figured out, you can be confident a pro board install will go smooth.

I can't wait to do that. I'm looking at the NB4 for our soundboard upgrades someday.

[Whosle]

Wow fast reply!

Would I be able to jumper the LED- to the Battery- on the board?

Yes, but depending on your V threshold on the transistor (NTE) , sometimes the speaker signal overtakes the control and ends up dimmer. The brightest way is to have it on a seperate transistor, and have it feed the LED after switching takes place. A tricree makes this option better.

Are you using just a single cell 18650 3.7v? If so what is the input voltage of your microbuck?

I might revisit the bladebuilder cards now. I think I have 2 kicking around. They are surprisingly compact.

You might be able to use a power extender (in the TCSS shop) as a replacement for the bulky transistors. That is my next attempt. Also thinking on putting a 5v stepup and 2watt amp. Lots of work for one soundfont ,though.

The Nbv4 is a perfect start for you after these builds. No pads to clean up, larger through holes etc.

Cheers!

[welshm85]

Are you using just a single cell 18650 3.7v? If so what is the input voltage of your microbuck?

I'm using 4 aaa to whatever that equals. Yeah I monitor a machine all day at work and when things are running smoothly I have time to browse forums and reddit.