r/lightsabers

Had the coolest lightsaber experience today! My Kinders were celebrating the end of the school year with a glow party. We had black lights, a multi colored light projector and some techno like videos playing on top of multiple stations for them to have fun with florescent toys and markers(highlighters). Then we started the dancing part of the party and I pull out my neopixel blade ignite and they lost their minds! Had the strobe and the rainbow styles going. Never have I had so much fun.

the title basically, come up with a unique reason for each lightsaber color

Blue

Green

Yellow

Red

Purple

Orange

Pink?

Light green?

Darksaber (im interested to hear what you all have to say about this one)

others im forgetting?

Hi all im looking to get a lightsaber like lukes in ep 5, similar. Ive seen one on padawan outpost that looks a good replica but they do a stronger louder sound board. Anyone got any experience with it and know if its good and the sounds it has on there?

Does it just use a proffie and then acts like the speakers?

Would this be a good choice or is there better.

Uk purchase and I want a replica really.

I'm making my first Mandalorian cosplay because of the new movie coming out, and was wondering if there were any show accurate neopixel darksabers out there that I could use for dueling? Not gonna ask from where since I see its part of the rules to not ask, lol, but I did see one from Nsabers that I really like, I just don't know it that one is okay for dueling or not since I know some are just not meant for it.

So I’m a lurker in this sub but just wanted to share that I’ve been quietly working on something I’ve wanted to build since I was a kid - an actual extendable/retractable lightsaber design.

Not just a cosplay prop with removable blades, but a mechanically extending and retracting illuminated blade system built into the hilt itself. It looks like the blades may also be used to duel as well if made out of polycarbonate or something similar.

I’m a Chartered Engineer by profession, and over the past couple of years I’ve been developing concepts and doing engineering work on the extending mechanism. Surprisingly, the design work is starting to look genuinely promising. Next steps is to get an actual prototype design together to enter testing.

Obviously this isn’t something that really exists commercially in a proper way yet, and there are a LOT of engineering challenges involved, but I’m at the stage where it’s starting to feel achievable rather than just a fantasy.

This has just been for me so far but wondered if someone actually managed to make a high quality extendable/retractable lightsaber that looked good, extended smoothly, illuminated properly, and was durable for duelling - would people here want one?

And realistically, what sort of price range do you think people would pay for something like that?

I’d love to hear honest thoughts from this group, and would love to update with some more info once I’ve made some more progress.

Hey there! Purchased my Dooku Jedi lightsaber a few weeks ago. Everything seemed fine until I replaced an existing font with a new one (namely "The Counts Claw V2" by Kyberphonic).A side note: the font has been added via plugging the SD card into my PC and replacing the files in the existing one, I do not intend to start fiddling with the proffie at the moment.

It is then when I started noticing cracking sounds coming from the speaker. The cracking occurs only when I do powerful swings, the hum/blast/clash sounds are not affected. This happens with a fully charged battery. Is there a chance that I've messed something up by simply replacing the sound files of the existing font, or is the font I'm using too bassy for my speaker?

Any tips/advice would be highly appreciated!

So I got a proffie saber v2.2, I flashed the board so I can edit blade styles. But when I uploaded my own config - https://pastebin.com/Zt0R7di7, it works perfectly when I turn it on with USB plugged in and still been on after being unplugged for 20 minutes but when I turn it off for 5 seconds it doesn't turn back on, the sound is good, no loose wires, SD card fit well, is there any way to fix this?