I’m kind of surprised that no one has yet gutted a Goliath Power Saber and tried to make a lightsaber out of it, with lightsaber sounds and LEDs in the blade.
That’s well beyond my skill level, but it seems like it might be possible.
I just tried that, it went badly and ive now wasted $60 on something thats currently useless pieces... If someone else wants to have a go id be curious how it goes but as it stands theres a couple problems:
-Its *chonky*, I think about 7-8cm diameter?. It makes the acolyte sabers look a bit slim. Also quite heavy. I'm 5'2 so it looked ridiculous in my hand, a basketball player might be fine with it haha
-Getting the bits out of the shell was where it all went wrong, I misplaced the limit switch a teeny tiny bit and it disassembled itself on the first test. I'm still not sure I put it back together right.
-It seems a bit inconsistent? Every time i got it working it would work a few times and then start jamming till i disassembled/reassembled the blade. This is what fully killed the project. it may have been my error but im not sure.
My advice would be duct tape the black tube that holds the blade and the motor together right away so the motor cant pull out, maybe see if you can keep the plastic around the limit switch, and if you can find a better battery you can make it much more normal saber sized. It takes 4 AA batteries and thats where most of the bulk comes from, I assume there might be an equivalent lithium something or other. Alternatively go old school and hide a wire to the battery pack in your sleeve or separate into two 2 AA packs disguised as a graflex clamp. It seems like the blade and the worm gear are the most useful parts of this, if I had better modelling skill or a scanner I'd put them up on printables because its certainly not worth the price tag for those parts and the best bet seems to be integrating those into a better overall system. Honestly if anyone has good electrical knowledge and thinks they might be able to salvage the useful bits I'd be happy to send my sad graveyard of parts your way, it would be nice to get anything useful out of this failure.
I will also note, and this might be an unemployed college student problem in my case, it's absolutely terrifying to disassemble such an expensive toy and I am not eager to repeat it... be warned you will take 1d4 psychological damage at every step in the process XD
I also have a knurl fetish apparently.
