The release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens last month has inspired a new generation of nerdy engineers to try their hands at making their own homemade lightsabers. While all of the homemade lightsabers we’ve written about have their merits, a new one posted by YouTuber Martin Beyer last week might be the most impressive model we’ve seen so far.
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On his YouTube page, Beyer explains that this is his second prototype lightsaber, although he emphasizes that he’s still a long way from building a lightsaber that would be good enough to sell. Here’s his list of components he used to make the lightsaber:
- Crystal-chamber: The crystal is a real blue Aqua Aura Quartz (removable).
- Soundboard: CF 7,5 (by Plecter Labs)
- Batteries: 2x 3.7V 14650 (1,1 A)
- Vintage Graflex Flash Gun
- 2W speaker
- Main LED: triple cree (blue,green,white)
As you can see in the picture below, he did a really nice job of making the hilt look like that of a lightsaber you’d actually see in the Star Wars universe:
And here’s a better look at the crystal chamber that he uses to filter the light:
So when he assembles the entire thing and turns it on, it looks really awesome like this:
Check out the full video for yourself below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPbvxRft02g&feature=youtu.be
