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Hi, I'm George Hadley with NBitWonder and
on today's show we're going to be finishing up the RGB Lightsaber build.
For those of you who are unfamiliar
with the RGB Lightsaber project,
it's a
lightsaber controller in which we can adjust the color of the lightsaber blade
to whatever color we want.
This is a three-part series; in part 1 we designed the control electronics and
in part two
we machined the hilt to
accept the control electronics.
So now, in part 3, we're going to put it all together and
we're going to have demonstration of its functionality,
So let's get started.
To start with, I want the device to be programmable without having to rip out all of the electronics from inside
the casing, so I
added a ribbon cable with a header
to allow me to easily reprogram the device while it's sitting inside the lightsaber.
Now, it's time to bust out the hot glue gun,
applying hot glue to
exposed electrical contacts
and other areas that risk being shorted. Then, it's off to the end cap and pommel assembly.
Using the end cap with the holes we drilled in the previous video,
we insert the charge port and power switch, and apply hot glue to help hold those in place.
Then, we add liberal amounts of hot glue to hold the end cap in place in the pommel assembly.
All right so one thing I did not think about when I was working on this build
I uh, secured
my pommel assembly using a
mess of hot glue and stuff, but
I
have this
sink tube adapter
and, it needs to go here
and there is no way the battery's going to go through this.
So, as kind of a quick,
quick fix we're going to just cut the wires and crimp them back together
and that should serve our purpose.
With our pommel assembly completed, it's time to move on to the LED and blade holder assembly.
For this step,
we need to unscrew the
MHS sink tube adapter,
add in our heatsinked LED, and then screw on our blade holder assembly.
Screw in the tap screws holding the LED blade in place and you're all set.
One critical part of making this project work is making sure
none of your electronics
short out inside the metal casing. For this, you'll need some insulation,
so I went to
my local hardware store and found this piece of white pipe,
and it just turns out it just so happens to be
a perfect fit.
So we're going to use this
to prevent our electronics from shorting out inside the case.
With the control electronics now safely insulated
it now becomes a matter of fittingÉ and fittingÉ
and fitting some more,
all of the saber components together.
Be patient as this step is fairly difficult and may take awhile, depending on your build process.
I finished off the lightsaber with these little black leather grips
that I purchased
from the Custom Saber Shop.
It's a fairly simple design, nothing fancy, I just wanted
to get this working to prove its basic
theory of operation.
But now, if we,
if we kill the lights, you can see
this thing in action.
and that's the RGB Lightsaber