How to make a Lightsaber ( for Star Wars Day )

It's Star Wars Day (May 4) so check out how I made a lightsaber!
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I'm a huge Star Wars nerd, and so to "celebrate" May 4th, I buckled down and completed my lightsaber project. This project has been in progress for almost 2 years (on and off) and it was finally time to finish it up. It uses a Teensy microcontroller and a prop shield to play sounds, handle motion detection and drive a LOT of LEDs to create the blade. The lights animate up and down with button presses and the sounds react to on, off and swinging the saber.
My code is available from
Some other saber projects I recently found:
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TOOLS LIST:
(some are better than the versions I own)
- Polycarbonate tube
- LED strip (x2)
- Teensy 3.2
- Prop Shield
- Battery Holder
- 4 NiHm rechargeable batteries
- charger
- 1.5" speaker (only available in 4 pack)
- Micro Buttons
- Rocker Switch
- 9v battery connector
- MatterHackers PRO PLA
- MatterHackers PLA (clear)
- Orbital Sander
- Classic steel ruler (cork backed)
- Box Cutters (for eva foam)
- Spray lacquer
- CA Glue (medium)
- CA Activator
- Ultimaker 2 Extended 3D printer
- Wire
- jumpers (Male to Female)
- Soldering iron
- Third hand kit
- Wire strippers (not the ones I have, but good ones)
- Thin solder
- Anti static mat
- Fiskars cutting mat
- Ultimaker 3
- Original Prusa i3 MK 2
- Digital Calipers
- Heat Gun
- Hot glue gun
- Quikclot clotting sponge
- First aid kit
- Respirator
- Filters
- Eye protection
- Ear protection
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