Introducing Li'l Billy - A Yule Side Saber
This is pretty a totally custom build with a dash of TCSS love.. The main body is a table leg from Home Depot that I cut, stained, painted and cored out. The emitter shroud is a modified holiday decoration.
This is an Arduino based build, with a custom OS powering a candy cane stripe effect neopixel blade with matching ignition and extinguish effects, and sequentially triggered swing sounds to enable the playing the Jingle Bells tune. The font is YuleSide, a custom font I assembled from public domain sounds including sleigh bells, hand bells, whip cracks, and my own "ho ho ho."
I wanted to get this done by today so I could share it with friends and family, and I managed to get it done on time thanks to timely shipping from TCSS. It could use a kill key, but for now I'll settle for disconnecting the battery between uses. This is by no means a polished build, but it is only meant to be a fun thing for the holiday season after which I'll gut it and use the parts elsewhere.
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